__The life saving advantages of monitored Smoke Alarms.
In the event of a fire, a smoke alarm can save your life and those of your loved ones. They are a very important means of preventing house and apartment fire fatalities by providing an early warning signal -- so you and your family can escape. Smoke alarms are one of the best safety devices you can buy and install to protect yourself, your family, and your home.
Studies demonstrate that smoke alarms save more lives than any other fire prevention measure. Smoke alarms provide the earliest warning of both fire and smoke.
Industry experts at the NFPA have determined that in a typical home fire, you only have three minutes to escape. Help protect your family and belongings with a monitored smoke detector.
Smoke Detectors
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Having monitored smoke detectors is a great way to protect your family and home. If there is a fire and your monitored smoke detector trips, your monitored alarm system will communicate to the monitoring station and they will dispatch the fire department. This can save valuable time in a fire emergency. Also if you’re not home you can have peace of mind knowing your home is protected for fire. Monitored smoke detectors are also a good way to protect the family pets when you’re not home. Many pets die in fires. Seconds count when there is a fire, the faster the fire department is dispatched the better. If you have monitored smoke detectors you may also be eligible to receive higher discount on your home owners insurance policy. Monitored smoke detectors can be installed using wired or wireless technology. Depending upon the layout of your home. Wired is less expensive to install but unless you pre wired your home at the time it was built or unless you have a large attic it may be to difficult to install the wiring needed. If wires cannot be installed then the wireless option is best.
What are Carbon monoxide (CO) Detectors?
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a deadly, colorless, odorless, poisonous gas. It is produced by the incomplete burning of various fuels, including coal, wood, charcoal, oil, kerosene, propane, and natural gas. Products and equipment powered by internal combustion engines such as portable generators, cars, lawn mowers, and power washers also produce CO.
CO alarms always have been and still are designed to alarm before potentially life-threatening levels of CO are reached. The safety standards for CO alarms have been continually improved and currently marketed CO alarms are not as susceptible to nuisance alarms as earlier models. _
CO Detectors
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What is Carbon Monoxide and How Can it Harm you? Carbon monoxide is harmful when inhaled because it displaces oxygen in the blood and deprives the heart, brain and other vital organs of oxygen. Large amounts of CO can overcome a person in minutes without warning—causing them to lose consciousness and suffocate.
A CO detector monitored by your home security system could be a life saver. When the CO detector alarms it also sends a signal to the monitoring station and they can immediately dispatch the fire department. We offer both the wired and wirelesses types of CO detectors for your alarm system. Both the wired and the wireless detector consist of an electrochemical carbon monoxide sensor assembly. The wireless detector is coupled with a wireless transmitter. The transmitter can send alarm, trouble, end-of-life, tamper and low battery condition messages to the alarm panel.