MADISON, Wis. — Madison’s chief building inspector, George Hank, told WISC-TV that despite repeated messages every year about checking smoke detectors, the message, many times, falls on deaf ears.
He said both occupants and landlords are to blame.
Hank estimates that 40 percent of all the smoke detectors they check are not working, even though, he said, “The smoke detector is the greatest advance ever made in home safety.”