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fire sprinklers can contain and may even extinguish a fire
in less time than it would take
the
fire department to arrive on the scene. Nationwide, more
than 4,000 people die in fires each
year.
Fire sprinklers save
lives, reduce property loss and can even help cut homeowner
insurance
premiums. Its like having
a firefighter in your home 24 hours a day !
Installing both smoke
alarms and a fire sprinkler system reduces the risk of death
in a home fire
by 82%, relative to
having neither.
Only the sprinkler
closest to the fire will activate, spraying water directly
on the fire. Ninety
percent of fires are
contained by the operation of just one sprinkler.
Nationally, on average,
home fire sprinkler systems add 1% to 1.5% of the total
building cost in
new construction.
For more information on
residential sprinklers you can view these videos and visit
the following
links.
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