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How To Find A Reputable Fire Protection Company

Finding the best fire protection company is easier than you think.

How Long Do Fire Extinguishers Last? Solved!

Fire extinguishers last anywhere from 5 to 15 years. If it's been a while since you've inspected yours, follow this guide to tell if it's in working order.

Safety tips to avoid appliance fires in your home

After the Edinburg Fire Department recently saw two dryer fires in one day, fire Chief Shawn Snider is reminding residents that dryers can become a fire hazard if not maintained properly.

How to Prevent Home Fires

You can vastly cut down deadly fire risks by exercising good safety habits and simple prevention steps. This article lists the “Big 7” most common causes of preventable fires and tells you the simple things you can and should do to keep them from starting. Prevention costs little or nothing.

Why you have less time to escape a house fire today than 30 years ago

Research shows that 30 years ago, you had about 17 minutes to escape a house fire. Today, you have only 3 or 4 minutes. TODAY national investigative correspondent Jeff Rossen conducts a dramatic demonstration that shows why, and how you should prepare.

How Fire Sprinklers Affect Human Behaviour in Emergencies

Fire sprinklers are often considered the first line of defence in the event of a fire. Read on to find out more.

Benefits of Fire Sprinklers

Fire sprinklers can prevent your home from being destroyed by a chimney fire or any other type of fire.

What’s the Difference Between Fire Sprinkler and Fire Suppression Systems?

Parts of fire sprinkler and fire suppression systems are very different in the way they extinguish or control fires and their applications.

What is the Difference Between the 4 Common Types of Fire Sprinklers?

Fire sprinklers can contain or even extinguish a dangerous fire and often limit property damage. Find out the key differences in the four major types.

Never Paint Your Fire Sprinkler…And Other No-Nonsense Sprinkler Safety Measures

Construction, remodeling and redecorating in the workplace or home often involves painting walls and ceilings. Occasionally, this means that life ... Read More

12 Investigates: Fire sprinklers effective in your home?

There's a fire every 38 seconds in Virginia. And when time is your life-saver, how do you get more of it?

Is Your Fire Protection System Up to Date?

When was the last time you scheduled fire protection system maintenance service? Don’t put your building and employees at risk. Call State Systems for maintenance service in TN, AR, or MS.

Does Mom’s or Dad’s nursing home have fire sprinklers?

If your first choice of homes does not have sprinkler protection, you need to ask why.

Nine steps for promoting home fire sprinkler in...

Developers need to know that installing fire sprinklers in their new homes can be a financial win. Serious dollars can be saved via reducing construction

Preventing Freezing In Dry Fire Sprinkler Systems

Every year facility owners may spend thousands of dollars from their operating budgets replacing auxiliary drains in dry sprinkler systems.

What advice would you give your younger self before joining the fire service?

'Find the most cantankerous old firefighter and follow and hang on every word.'

Everything You’ve Learned From Movies About Fire Sprinklers Is Wrong (Except ‘Die Hard’)

Film scenes provide inspiration for a man on a quest to increase fire-sprinkler awareness; ‘It’s always a little exciting to find another example’

The seven benefits of home fire sprinklers you ...

3 Steps to Optimal Data Center Fire Protection

Most suppression systems require the use of a detection system to activate. Matching the performance characteristics of a detection system with a suppression system is a critical component of the fire protection design. Detection must align with the hazard, suppression system type and fire protection goals. An increasingly popular detection method is air sampling... Read more