Smoke Alarms: Do They Really Help The Hearing Impaired?
MyHearGear carries about 2,000 Assistive Living Devices for the deaf and hearing impaired. One product that is often overlooked is a Smoke or Carbon monoxide alarm that has a very high sound output and comes with a flashing strobe light. A person with a hearing loss will not only HEAR the fire/smoke/CO alarm, they will also be able to SEE alarm alerting them to danger. If you can’t hear or see an alarm going off, that can lead to deadly consequences. There are 1.6 million or more fires every year cost the lives of civilians and firefighters. Fire kills more Americans that all natural disasters combined. It’s a horrible tragedy, especially in places where hearing impaired and vision impaired live and there is no alerting system in place to warn them of fire or smoke.
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