Every year, there are about 100,000 non-residential fires that take place all across the country. Most of these fires start up on the inside of businesses. If a fire ever starts in your business, would you and your employees know what to do? By being proactive about fire safety, you might be able to stop… Read more »
Are you thinking about installing a new fire alarm system in your business sometime soon? Before you do, you should sit down and rank all of the systems are available to you. By doing this, you’ll give yourself the best opportunity to pick out the right option for your company. You’ll feel confident in your… Read more »
According to the National Fire Protection Association, there are more than 3,000 fires that take place in office buildings each year. If you’re the owner of one, you should take every possible precaution to prevent a fire from breaking out in your building. You should also come up with a plan that’ll help you put… Read more »
If a fire were to start in your building today, how would your commercial fire alarm system respond to it? You should feel completely confident in your fire alarm system’s ability to spring into action as soon as a fire starts. There are some simple steps you can take to ensure that your commercial fire… Read more »
Every component of a commercial fire alarm system plays an important role — but the fire control panel sits at the center of it all. Acting as the system’s brain, the fire panel receives signals from detectors and initiating devices, processes that information, and coordinates the appropriate emergency response. Here is what you need to… Read more »
Technology has changed the way that people do just about everything in life. There are very few aspects of life that haven’t been impacted by technology in some way, and that includes fire safety! These days, commercial fire alarm systems are more advanced than ever before and capable of protecting buildings in ways that people… Read more »
Has your commercial fire alarm system experienced a series of false alarms in recent months? This can be a major problem. When your fire alarm is always going off for no reason, it can desensitize you and your employees to it. It could lead to you ignoring a real alarm and put you into harm’s… Read more »
Are you thinking about trying to connect an addressable smoke detector to the conventional fire alarm system that you have set up in your building? You should think again! The smoke detectors that you use in your building need to match up with your fire alarm system. That means that addressable smoke detectors will not… Read more »
Is your commercial fire alarm panel trying to tell you something? If so, a yellow or red light will usually flash on the panel to indicate a problem. In most cases, this problem won’t be anything you need to necessarily worry about too much. However, you shouldn’t ignore your fire alarm panel if it has… Read more »
Installing a commercial fire alarm system in your business is important, but it’s only half the battle when it comes to fire safety. As a business owner, you shouldn’t just have a fire alarm system installed and then assume it’ll work when you need it to. You’ll also need to test it out on a… Read more »