Home Fires Can Be Avoided Using Smoke Detectors
When I was a young man, under the age of 18, I knew very little about
how fires got started and spread so fast in a home. It wasn't until I
was in my late 20s or early 30s that I finally realized that I needed to
know a little bit more about home fire prevention.
Home fires can be avoided using a little common sense and by effectively
educating yourself about them. I would like to share some things with
you that you will need to be aware of as a homeowner. Especially, if
you're interested in your families safety.
Let's start with smoke detectors. If you don't have any smoke detectors
in your home, it wouldn't be a bad idea to purchase and install some
battery operated ones in every bedroom and hallway in your home. You can
place them anywhere else, you think necessary, but these are the main
areas to protect.
If you do have smoke detectors, you need to check them to make sure that
they're working by lighting a match and letting the smoke go into the
smoke detector. If nothing happens, the smoke detectors need to be
replaced with ones that do work. Smoke detectors are mechanical devices
and believe it or not, sometimes they fail.
Every day homes across the United States and all over the world catch on
fire and some of them injure and kill people. Some of these accidents
could have been avoided and of course some of them were entirely
unavoidable. We need to focus on the home fires that can be avoided and
smoke detectors provide us with a good starting point.
Don't do any smoke detector test, if you're smoke detectors are hooked
up to a house alarm system that will immediately notify the fire
department. Check with your home alarm company or local fire department
on how to perform an effective smoke detector test.