October is Fire Prevention Month. This years Fire Prevention Week Theme is focused on Working Smoke Alarms.
"When both smoke alarms and fire sprinklers are present in a home, the
risk of dying in a fire is reduced by 82 percent, compared to a
residence without either. According to the National Fire Protection
Association, between 2003-06, almost two-thirds of home fire deaths,
resulted from fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke
alarms."
Fire departments around the country are gearing up for Fire Prevention Week starting Oct. 5th.
This years theme is "Working Smoke Alarms Save Lives" "Test Yours Every Month!"
They'll have open house and a lot of free training as well as demonstrations.
Search Engines can help you find fire departments that provide training locations near you.
Most people don’t understand how to test a smoke alarm, pushing
the button and sounding the alarm does not test the smoke detector circuitry, and
it does however test the battery and the audio alarm.
The detection circuitry can only be tested with a smoke
spray or actual smoke.It’s never a good
idea to light a fire in your house or apartment, so remove the smoke detector
and take it outside to light a fire.The
best way to do this is plan ahead by purchasing one of those cheap cigars; they
should provide you with plenty of smoke.
Make sure you are testing with a New Battery.
Wave the smoke under the unit until the alarm sounds, if
after 10 seconds the alarm doesn’t go off use a vacuum cleaner to clean the
face of the detector.If on a second try
it still refuses to sound off replace the unit.
Smoke detectors are required to be replaced every 10 years.
I’ve been in the Fire Safety business for 20 years and
wanted to leverage my knowledge to increase my income, because I learned that
working on fire extinguishers was a laborious task with limited chances to increase
my profits without some way to increase sales and to do that I decided to write
a book on fire safety and sell it online affording me the chance to reach a
higher volume of customers.
Instead of writing a book, I decided this Blog would suffice and maybe I'll assemble the posts into a book.
The Internet has been growing rapidly and forcing media
communications to change as well, so I decided I needed to explore Internet
Marketing first and that led me to Full Sail University.
I’m following these Blogs through RSS: National Fire Protection
Association NFPA, Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA, the Burn
Foundation, the USA Coast Guard, Fire Engineering, and Keyes Life Safety
Compliance.
I specialize in Hand Portable Fire Extinguishers and Smoke Detectors.
During my 20 years of servicing and selling extinguishers, I had the opportunity to meet a high volume of people. When companies wanted to conduct live fire extinguisher training (very messy by the way), it gave me the chance to interact closely with employees and discovered they had a lot of questions about fire extinguishers and smoke detectors.
