Your Home Safety Senses |Great Fire Protection Addresses All Of Our Senses

16 November, 2009

Is your home properly protected against fire, smoke, and heat damage? Do you feel like home and family are adequately prepared for these types of emergencies? Fire is obviously quite damaging to property, and a serious threat to life and limb. In order for fire prevention and protection at home to make a difference, it needs to be effective, well thought out, and properly maintained to immediately alert and instantly activate in the event of fire. Really good fire protection safeguards assets and protects lives.

When a fire breaks out nearly all of our sense detect it early. We can see flames, smell smoke, and feel the heat it generates. We can even hear to roar of the growing threat. In order for fire protection to make a difference, it must target our senses. As an example, many fires start at night when we are asleep and not able to sense the initial blaze. Initial fire alarms must be loud and identifiable as exactly that: emergency alarms. By the time we wake up and are aware of our surroundings we have lost critical time that could literally spell the difference between life and death.

The homes security and fire prevention experts at ADT Home Security offer these suggestions to help you devise a home security alarm system and emergency prevention plan that will properly target your senses:

Hearing. Install high-decibel fire, heat, and smoke alarms throughout your house and test them often. The shrill of the alarm should instantly rouse your family from sleep. Testing them in the middle of the night will give you an indication of their effectiveness.

Sight. Emergency alarms can be configured to work with the lights in your house or apartment. These systems are quite useful for people with hearing problems because they attract attention without relying on audible alarms.

Smell. Carbon monoxide detectors monitor for the presence of noxious gases inside a building. These gases are deadly and detectors can alert you long before levels are too high.

Touch. Heat detectors sense changes in room temperatures and will alert you before you can see flames. Install these wireless devices in areas of your house where fire might be more likely, such as a furnace room or water heater closet. This quick response will help get to safety early.

Let US Home Security and ADT Home Security help you put together the most effect home security fire prevention plan possible, which includes fire, smoke, heat, and carbon monoxide sensors.