On 7/5/2018 12:00 AM, micky wrote:

I was hoping there were smoke detectors that themselves had the delay,
that squealed locally at the first notice of smoke, but didn't alert the
monitoring company until some later time. 30 seconds just isn't
enough.


While you and I think it makes sense, someone will sue the alarm company
because there was a 60 second delay in response and their cat died in
the fire.