Save Lives- Invest in a Smoke Detector

1/29/2020 (Permalink)

Thousand of people lose their lives every year in residential fires. In a fire, smoke and deadly gases tend to spread farther and faster than heat.  That's one reason why most five victims die from inhalation of smoke and toxic gases, not from burns.  A  majority of fatal fires happen when families are asleep because occupants are unaware of the fire until there is not adequate time to escape.  A smoke alarm stands guard around the clock and when it first senses smoke, it sounds a shrill alarm.  This often allows a family the precious, but limited time needed to escape. 

About two-thirds of home fire deaths occur in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.  Properly installed and maintained smoke alarms are considered to be one of the best and least expensive means of providing an early warning of a potentially deadly fire and could reduce by almost half the risk of dying from a fie in your home. 

SERVPRO of Jefferson City wants our customers to keep safe.  If we can be of help at any time give us a call at 573-65-5883.