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Fire Safety Tips:
Why are Smoke
Alarms Important?
Every year in the United States, about
3,000 people lose their lives in residential fires. In a
fire, smoke and deadly gases tend to spread farther and
faster than heat. That's one reason why most fire
victims die from inhalation of smoke and toxic gases,
not as a result of burns. A majority of fatal fires
happen when families are asleep because occupants are
unaware of the fire until there is not adequate time to
escape. A smoke alarm stands guard around the clock and,
when it first senses smoke, it sounds a shrill alarm.
This often allows a family the precious but limited time
it takes to escape.
About two-thirds of home fire deaths
occur in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke
alarms. Properly installed and maintained smoke alarms
are considered to be one of the best and least expensive
means of providing an early warning of a potentially
deadly fire and could reduce the risk of dying from a
fire in your home by almost half.
Where Should Smoke Alarms
be Installed?
Smoke
alarms should be installed on every level of the home,
outside sleeping areas, and inside bedrooms.
For more fire safety tips please visit the
FireSafety.gov Website Click here
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