7 Reasons Why Your Smoke Alarm Keeps Going Off (Although Nothing Is Burning) — Tips from The Kitchn

Last Thanksgiving, we were especially grateful for our smoke alarms. No, we didn't burn the turkey, as you may have suspected! Our chimney malfunctioned when we tried to light a fire in the fireplace, and started to spread smoke through the house. Our neighbor, who is a fireman, heard the alarms and ran across the street to scoop the fire into a bucket and run it outside, inspiring hero-worship among my kids and their cousins.

Shortly after, the street was filled with fire trucks and my home was filled with fireman and industrial fans. Fortunately, everything was fine. The kids thought it was pretty much the best day ever. They even got to sit in a fire truck! And we were grateful that the alarms warned us to get out of the house and start reacting before the adults even realized it was a problem.

But sometimes the smoke alarm goes off for seemingly no reason. And that can be both worrisome and just plain annoying. So if your fire alarm is constantly going off, do some investigating to see if it's because of one of these reasons.

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