Sparky's Safety Spots - Smoke Alarms

We're coming to the end of Fire Protection Week. This year's theme is "Smoke Alarms: A Sound you can live with!".

This is a great time to think about your home or business and your fire protection.

This year the emphasis is educating people about the importance of smoke alarms.

Take the steps necessary to update and maintain your home or business' smoke alarm protection.

Contact SAS Security Alarm Service for an inspection or maintenance of your home or business Fire Detection System.

Smoke Alarm Facts:

* Smoke Alarms cut the risk of dying in a reported fire in half.

* 96% of all homes have at least one smoke alarm (2008 - telephone survey)

* Each year nearly 3,000 people die in U.S home fires.

* In more than half of the reported home fires in which smoke alarms were present but did not operate (even though the fire was large enough), batteries were missing or disconnected. Nuisance alarms were the leading reason for disconnected alarms.

* Smoke alarms should be replaced every 10 years. Only 12% of the people surveyed in 2008 knew this.

*In fires considered large enough to activate a smoke alarm, hard-wired alarms operated 91% of the time; battery powered smoke alarms operated 75% of the time.