A Few Alarming Facts

7/22/2019 (Permalink)

After the fire is out and we step in, the team here at SERVPRO of Mobile County takes great pride in being able to help our clients get their lives back on track as quickly as possible.  However; we also take great pride in sharing the knowledge we have gained to educate our community members on how to lessen the impact of unforeseen disasters.  We can’t ensure that you will never experience a fire or water loss, but we can help you safeguard your family and your property as much as possible. Safety, prevention and planning are key to minimizing property loss and injury.  One of the easiest and most effective ways to protect your family is by having properly working smoke alarms. According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA):

• 3 out of 5 deaths in a residential fire occurred in homes without properly working smoke alarms.
• No smoke alarms were present in nearly 2 out of 5 home deaths.
• In homes with smoke alarms that did not operate properly, nearly half of those malfunctions were due to missing batteries or disconnected wires.
• One-quarter of smoke alarms failures were due to dead batteries.

The NFPA recommends that you test your smoke alarms monthly.  Make sure your smoke alarms are on a connected system so that if one sounds, they all go off.  It is also recommended that you replace your smoke alarms with new ones every 10 years.