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Protect Your Home With Fire Extinguishers

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Do you have a fire extinguisher in your home? According to the US Fire Administration of FEMA, there were over 3600 civilian fire deaths and nearly 18,000 civilian fire injuries in 2005, 83% of those deaths occurred in homes. Direct property loss as a result of fire was estimated at around $10.7B! (stats) Those statistics [...]

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Fire and Smoke Detector Batteries

Monday, May 14, 2007

There are two things you need to know with respect to fire and smoke detectors:

Double check them at least once every two weeks.
Don’t use rechargeable batteries.

You should double check your fire and smoke detectors every week, there is usually a button that you press to make it either flash or beep, because batteries are known [...]

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