Fire Monitoring can Save your Property, your Belongings & your Life
Fire monitoring system services are incredibly important. In fact, they can often be the difference between inconvenience and disaster. When you have fire monitoring system services installed, the central alarm monitoring station is notified if there is a fire, smoke or other potential fire-related emergency at your home. The central monitoring station can then contact you and/or the appropriate authorities in order to deal with the situation quickly, efficiently and effectively.
If your home does not have fire monitoring system installed, a fire can burn, grow and cause an increasing amount of damage for quite some time before anyone notices the situation. This can cause serious trouble, from severe property damage or a loss of personal belongings to serious injury or worse. Unfortunately, fires can spread very quickly. They often start off quite small and controllable, but they grow at a very fast speed. A small fire that is manageable and controllable can very quickly become a large fire that is dangerous and out of control. Therefore, the sooner you are informed about the fire – and the sooner that the authorities arrive on scene – the better. As with crime prevention, every second counts. The longer it takes for you to be informed of a trouble condition and the longer it takes for help to arrive, the more damage is done. By having fire monitoring installed on your property, you are drastically decreasing the time that it takes from when a fire starts to when help is alerted. The central monitoring station receives notice of your particular emergency very quickly after the emergency takes place. The time that is saved here is precious.
How Fire Monitoring System Saves Time, Homes and Families
Imagine if a fire broke out on the second floor of your house while you are in the basement? Even if you have regular smoke detectors installed, it would take quite some time before you could hear the detectors and react to them correctly. The same thing is true if a fire were to take place downstairs while you are sleeping upstairs. You may not noticed the alarms immediately and, even if you do, you will likely not be in the right emotional or mental state to react to them properly. The situation becomes even worse if a fire starts in your home while you are away. Without a fire monitoring system installed at your home, the fire could burn and grow for quite some time before neighbours or passers by noticed that there was an issue. By the time the problem was spotted and someone reacted, the fire would likely be very large and incredibly dangerous.If you have fire monitoring system installed at your home, the response will be much, much quicker. The central alarm monitoring station will receive notice of the trouble condition very on, likely when the fire is still very small. The central station can then contact you and let you know that there is an issue at your property. This means that, no matter where you are, you can be quickly alerted of emergencies at home. It also means that you no longer have to worry about what may happen when you are away. After the central monitoring station contacts you, you can provide them with permission to contact the fire department and any other appropriate authorities. If you would like, you can even provide the monitoring station with instructions to contact the fire department directly, without contacting you first.
This will depend on your particular plan and also, in many cases, the city that you live in. The reason that the central fire monitoring station often contacts the home owner before contacting the fire department is that, in many cities and regions, there is a very high cost for false alarms. A small kitchen fire that can be put out safely and easily by a homeowner could trigger the fire alarm and alert the monitoring station. If fire monitoring station does not contact the home owner first, but instead contacts the fire department directly, the fire department could send fire trucks to a situation that does not warrant them. For this reason, many cities, towns and regions charge the homeowner for fire trucks that are sent out when they are not needed. For example, The City of Toronto charges $410.00 for each vehicle it sends to a property where the fire department is not needed. Since the city typically sends three trucks to each location, this leads to a $1230.00 fee for the home owner. In order to spare home owners this charge, many fire monitoring agreements specify that the property owner will be called first.