A national recall has been issued for 1.5 million Kidde smoke detector and carbon monoxide alarms in Canada because they may not chirp in the case of an emergency.

A carbon monoxide detector communicates through a series of R2-D2-like beeps and chirps to let you know when it detects dangerous levels of carbon monoxide, when the battery is low, and when the ...

That's when the device may go into a latched mode, causing it to not go off when smoke or carbon monoxide is in the air. Kidde Model i12010S-C0-CA with the recalled manufacture date of Mar. 31 ...