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smoke detectors

n. (plural of smoke detector English)

Usage examples of "smoke detectors".

She talked knowledgeably about carbon dioxide scrubbers, carbon monoxide and smoke detectors, about the heating and cooling systems, and our biggest bugaboo, radiation.

Now we have smoke detectors, heat detectors, and a sprinkling system-the works.

There are smoke detectors in every room, people coming and going all day, the dogs patrolling at night.

One consumer organization estimates that if ionization-type smoke detectors were placed in every U.

There were smoke detectors in the lab, but none in the vacuum chamber.

It was said in jest that there was no need for smoke detectors when he was around, that the first warning sign would be Goldstein standing over the point of ignition with an extinguisher, waiting for the fire to break out.

Central columns, sheathed in green ceramic, support a ceiling pocked with dust-furred ventilators, smoke detectors, speakers.

The rain kept the fire from spreading, but it was enough to kick in the forestry station's smoke detectors.

The Black Spirit's outfit posed as officials from the city's Health and Safety department, complete with IDs and paperwork, there to perform a spot-check on the cinema's alarms, fire extinguishers, smoke detectors and sprinkler systems.

Then he dismantled the smoke detectors and set a blaze meant to cover up the crime.

The fire alarm went off in the middle of the night, triggered by one of the smoke detectors.