First Alert SA720 Safe & Sound Smoke alarm with Escape Light review
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- Smoke alarm
- Battery only
- Optical smoke alarm
The First Alert SA720 Safe & Sound Smoke Alarm with scape Light Long Life No Nuisance smoke alarm comes with a hush button to use for weekly testing and an escape light to show the way in an emergency. But how good is it at detecting smoke? To get to the bottom of this, we took it to our test lab, so read on for our full review and to find out how well this First Alert smoke alarm got on.
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