| According
to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control's
Fire Death and Injuries fact sheet, four out of five U.S.
fire deaths in 2005 occurred in the home. Is your home protected
with a wireless interconnected smoke alarm system so that
if a fire was to start anywhere in your house, your family
would know immediately and have the time needed to escape?
The technology of the wireless interconnected
smoke alarm system greatly increases the likelihood that the
occupants of a home will have the needed time to escape from
a fire. This greatly reduces the chance of injury or death.
Homes that were built after 1993 are required
to have interconnected smoke alarm systems built into the
home. An interconnected smoke alarm system works on the principle
that once a fire starts in one area of a home, all of the
alarms in the home will sound; not just the alarm where the
fire has started. Think about the extra time that gives the
occupants to leave the home safety.
Suppose that you are sleeping in an upstairs
bedroom with your children in adjacent rooms, and a fire starts
in another area of your home. Imagine this scenario without
an interconnected smoke alarm system installed in your home.
By the time the smoke alarms near your bedrooms
detect smoke, it is too late! Your family would now have to
blindly navigate through thick clouds of dark smoke and intense
fire engulfing the house. They may be forced to jump from
a window or wait to be rescued by the fire department's hook
and ladder.
If the home had been equipped with an interconnected
smoke alarm system, the same situation would have a much safer
ending. With this system in place, as soon as the fire started,
all of the interconnected alarms would sound off simultaneously.
With this fire system in place, your family would have been
immediately awakened before the smoke had advanced upstairs
to the bedrooms and engulfed the sleeping quarters in smoke.
Homes that were built prior to 1993 were not
required to have an interconnected smoke alarm system. Now
these older homes can easily have the same unsurpassed protection
of an interconnected system with the simple installation of
wireless interconnected smoke alarms. There is no need to
break through walls and hardwire the smoke alarms to the electrical
system.
The wireless interconnected smoke alarm system
uses radio waves to interconnect the smoke alarms throughout
the house. The cost is much less than a hardwired interconnected
system and it is a very simple installation process. The smoke
alarms are placed in all areas of the home as simply as you
would place a smoke alarm that is not in an interconnected
system. It is that easy and offers so much more protection
than traditional smoke alarms.
To further protect your family, there are
some other innovative fire safety products that are available
today. One such product is a smoke alarm that gives voice
commands to wake your family up. Studies have been conducted
that indicate children will wake up to the sound of a voice
much sooner than to the sounding of an alarm. Also, hearing-
disabled older adults can not hear some sounds at certain
decibel levels.
These newer alarms are programmed with the
proper decibel level to cater to children and adults. This
type of alarm can be purchased from one manufacturer along
with its wireless interconnected smoke alarm system. Now a
homeowner can have the added protection of an interconnected
system along with the assurance that all members of the household
will awaken with the sounding of the alarm.
Fire protection and preparedness is important
to the safety of your family. With four out of five fire deaths
occurring in the home, today's innovative new products such
as the wireless interconnected smoke alarm system and voice
smoke alarms can give you the assurance that you are doing
everything in your power to keep your family as safe as possible
in case of a fire.
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