Category Archives: Fire Alarm Equipment
Get Your Residential Fire Alarm Box Today
It’s been getting more and more the rage to have a home security system involved in homes everywhere. In fact, many new homes are coming already equipped with them. Your fire alarm box needs to be located on a wall near the front door for convenience. For your fire alarm to be effective, it’s important … Continue reading
Automatic Fire Sprinklers For Your Home
Every responsible homeowner has smoke detectors, but few have any kind of automatic fire sprinkler system installed. It is true, that a house using a well-maintained smoke detector in every room is likely to detect a fire in its early stages, which greatly increases the chances of escaping safely, but for me, I want the … Continue reading
Smoke Detector Installation
Smoke detectors are an essential part of your family’s first line of defense against fires. Research shows that chances of escape and survival are greater if you detect fire at its first stages, before it grows out of control. By properly installing smoke detectors you can extinguish a fire before it grows to a disaster-scale … Continue reading
The Proper Fire Alarm Cable
It’s hard to know just how important the right fire safety equipment will be unless you’ve been through a fire and have already experienced it. The fact is that the proper equipment can save lives. Every year hundreds of people die in fires. Both burns and smoke inhalation can be fatal. Even people who survive … Continue reading
Fireproof Safes – For A Safer Future
Without enough protection and safety measures, a fire in your home (or business) could be the most devastating tragedy you will ever experience. Nowadays, people have come to realize that it is best to equip their homes and offices with fire protective gadgets and devices such as fire exits and fire alarms. Unfortunately, these safety … Continue reading
NPLFA or PLFA: Which is Better?
Most of us today realize the necessity of having at least basic home fire alarm detectors in our homes as well as had them installed. In their simplest form, the units are plastic, free-standing boxes run by a battery. They are able to detect smoke and then sound a loud siren to warn people of … Continue reading
Safety for the Deaf with Alarm Fire Light
American citizens are well aware of the importance of fire alarms. You can find them in most homes today as well as in all public places. If they detect smoke, they blast out loud and clear, and everyone can hear… except someone who is deaf, that is. That’s why alarm fire lights have also been … Continue reading
Fire Alarms are a Commercial Necessity
In the early days of the American textile mills, fires were fought using a sprinkler system made of perforated pipes. This system was not automated and had to be turned on manually. Around the time of the Civil War, men started trying to find better ways to protect factory workers from fire. In 1872, Philip … Continue reading
The History of Fire Alarm Radio Transmitters
It’s amazing how far American fire alarm technology has come in the last 200 years. The first alarm systems were very primitive. They included people walking the street twirling fireman’s rattles and/or someone ringing a church bell in order to alert volunteer firemen that there was a fire. In their own way, early Americans had … Continue reading
Fire Alarm Bells Ring out a Warning
Without bells, it wouldn’t matter how fantastic a fire alarm system was. It wouldn’t work. The bells are hooked to the console for one reason – to make a noise that alerts people to impending danger. In an alarm system, a pull bar unit or detector will pick up a signal that something is amiss. … Continue reading