Smoke Detectors – The Forgotten Home Security System

Home security is not just about keeping prowlers from entering your home. Protection from fire and smoke inhalation should also be covered in your security plans. Toward this end, you should install smoke detectors. In the years 2000 to 2004, no smoke detectors were present or if present, not in working order, in 46% of reported home fires. It has been estimated that 890 lives could be saved each year if every home had working smoke alarms.

Just to be sure everyone knows what I mean by a smoke detector; this is a device that detects smoke and issues a signal to a fire alarm system, and/or a local audible alarm from the detector itself. Read More→