WHY FIRE SPRINKLERS ARE SO EFFECTIVE

Fire sprinklers will most likely extinguish the fire at its source before it has a chance to grow.

The moment a fire starts, it sends up a burst of heat that activates a sprinkler head.  Fire sprinklers are designed for individual activation, a small fire won’t set every sprinkler in the house off.  Nine times out of ten, one sprinkler head is enough to extinguish a fire.

Fire sprinklers hardly ever malfunction or go off accidentally like fire alarms do.  The reason is that sprinklers can only be activated by a burst of heat strong enough to melt the seals on the sprinkler head, causing it to spray.  The only thing remotely likely to produce that much heat in a home is a genuine fire. 

The flow of water from fire sprinklers is designed to drop the core temperature of a fire past the point where heat can be maintained.  Once a fire has dropped below that threshold temperature, it can no longer sustain itself.  The fire sprinklers put out the fire by removing its heat. 

Fire sprinklers also reduce the chances of death by smoke inhalation.  This is the most common cause of death in case of house fires- most people suffocate long before the fire gets to them.  Fire sprinklers spray water on the source of smoke, weighing down the larger smoke particles.  This thins the smoke, giving people in a burning home a better chance of surviving to escape.

Sprinklers are the most effective means of protecting your home against fire.  They are more effective than fire alarms, fire extinguishers, and even the fire department.  If you have anything in your home worth protecting and all of us do, you should give fire sprinklers serious consideration

 
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