Half of U.S. fire deaths in 2011 occurred in houses where a smoke detector had been disabled, probably because of "nuisance" alarms that are more common in ionization detectors.
A popular kind of detector is poor at sensing certain types of fires. Some lawmakers want New York City to require property owners to also install a more expensive kind.
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