Law Would Require Improved Smoke Detectors in New York

here is a bill headed to Governor Cuomo’s desk that would require New York stores only sell 10-year sealed battery smoke detectors.

If signed by the Governor, the law wouldn’t kick in until 2017.

Even after 2017 you wouldn’t get into trouble for having other kinds of smoke detectors, the law simply requires stores in the state to only sell the 10-year battery sealed alarm.

Ken Pienkowski, 1st Vice President of the Firemen’s Association of the State of New York says, “We’ve all read about, we’ve all heard stories about fires in home, they had non-operational smoke detectors because it didn’t have any batteries, good intentions, the battery goes dead and it beeps, people take it out, they don’t have one, their intentions are good to buy one.”

Even now these devices are already available at various stores around the area for around $20.