Tag Archives: Alarm System
Smoke Detector – Best Invention of the Past Two Decades?
Born in 1969, the smoke detector was recently voted the best invention of the past two decades ahead of mobile phones, microwave ovens and must-have gadgets like digital cameras. The potentially life-saving device is hailed for its ability to detect the early signs of fire. While commendable the smoke detector does not go far enough … Continue reading
How to Install a Fire Alarm
If you are one of those lucky people who are building a new home from the ground up, installing a complete fire safety system won’t be difficult to accomplish. Your architect can draw one into the original plans so that your builder will be able to install it while the walls are still open. If … Continue reading
The Essential Fire Alarm Control Panel
There are many people today who shy away from the new, high-tech gadgets which provide safety and security for their homes and families. After all, they don’t understand completely how the units work or what they can do, and learning looks complicated. It’s necessary to take the bull by the horns, however, by installing home … Continue reading
Safety First – The Fire And Smoke Alarm
When it comes to ensuring the safety of our loved ones, we will turn to a variety of safety measures that we implement on a daily basis. But the most important safety measure is that which stays in our home, its importance often overlooked. It is the fire and smoke alarm and it is crucial … Continue reading
Lifesaving Fire Alarm Design
Fire alarm designs have been improved upon over the years making them responsible for saving countless lives. The system is designed to alert the occupants of a home or business immediately when smoke is detected. With this early alert, people can get out before being overcome by smoke inhalation or sustaining severe burns. What the … 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
The Trusted Name of GE is Behind Every Edwards Fire Alarm
Fire alarm systems are vital to the safety of life, both at home and in the commercial arena. Who hasn’t heard the heart-wrenching stories of tiny children dying in a house fire because there was no fire alarm to wake the family in time? These devices will sound in emergencies and provide the early warnings … 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