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- Fire sprinklers save lives, reduce property loss and can
even help cut homeowner insurance premiums.
- Home fire sprinklers can contain and may even extinguish a
fire in less time than it would take the fire department
to arrive on the scene.
- Installing both smoke alarms and a fire sprinkler system
reduces the risk of death in a home by fire by 82%,
relative to having neither.
- Only the sprinkler closest to the fire will activate
spraying water directly on the fire. Ninety percent of fires
are contained by the operation of just one sprinkler.
- Nationally, on average, home fire sprinkler systems add 1%
to 1.5% of the total building cost in new construction.
- Home fire sprinklers use only a fraction of the water used
by fire department hoses.
- The odds of accidental sprinkler discharge due to
manufacturing defect are 1 in 16 million.
- Modern residential sprinklers are inconspicuous and can be
mounted flush with walls or ceilings.
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For more information on home fire sprinklers, individuals can
call 1-888-635-7222 or go to the Home Fire Sprinkler
web site at
www.homefirespinkler.org.
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