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Fire spreads in a matter of few minutes and takes no time to engulf the whole house and its content. To protect your house, you must install smoke detectors of two kinds. Install ionization fire alarm to detect quick moving fire which does not emit must smoke and photoelectric smoke alarm to detect slow burning fire that is accompanied by smoke. Install both these fire safety equipments to ensure maximum safety for your house.

The benefit of installing smoke detectors in all rooms is that you will be alerted of fire on its onset. Ensure that all your smoke detectors are in working condition. Also replace its batteries once in 12 months and have new devices installed every 10 years.

Smoke detectors alone will not serve the purpose as just smoke alarms will not be good enough to wake people from deep slumber. The sound of alarm which triggers off on sensing smoke might get incorporated with the dream or might just go unheard. This could be dangerous especially for children, an ailing person and those who are hard of hearing.

So apart from smoke alarms and detectors install your house with strobe light detectors as well as this in case of fire it will alert a person through visual stimulus. This is beneficial for all those who are sensitive to light but not to sound. For all those who sleep deep a vibrating alarm placed below the mattress will also help.

Talking smoke alarms that speak instead of letting a shrill beep can be purchased too. Undoubtedly smoke alarms are the best form of defense against fire, but along with this you can also make some additional purchases like a heat sensor. A heat sensor on sensing the room temperatures goes off on reaching a predetermined temperature. Having a carbon monoxide detector on each floor can prevent casualties.

You house may never catch fire, but there is no harm in installing your house with fire safety equipments. But just in case it does the equipments will enable you to act swiftly. Also keep a map of your home stored outside the house maybe in the garage or in a safe place in the backyard. The map will make it easy for firefighters to navigate easily and save life and property. The map must contain a proper description of the house layout, and must contain details of who the occupant of each room is.