Routine Inspection of Smoke Alarm Systems Saves Lives in Mundelein?

4/30/2024 (Permalink)

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Our Mundelein and North Wauconda teams are on call and ready to respond to fire damage emergencies 365 days a year in Lake County. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) urges people to replace all home smoke alarm systems every ten years. Here are some smoke alarm facts from the NFPA:

• In 2014-2018, smoke alarms sounded in more than half (54 percent) of the home fires reported to United States fire departments.
• Almost three of every five home fire deaths resulted from fires in homes with no smoke alarms (41 percent) or no working smoke alarms (16 percent).
• The death rate per 1,000 reported home fires was more than twice as high in homes that did not have any working smoke alarms compared to the rate in homes with working smoke alarms (13.0 deaths vs. 5.8 deaths per 1,000 fires).
• In fires in which the smoke alarms were present but did not operate, two of every five (41percent) of the smoke alarms had missing or disconnected batteries.
• Dead batteries caused one-quarter (26 percent) of the smoke alarm failures.

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