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Protect What You Value Most

Protect What You Value Most. Today’s presentation will help you understand how home fire sprinklers can:. Save lives Reduce injuries Save millions of dollars from property loss. Today’s presentation will:. Answer questions, concerns and dispel myths about home fire sprinklers.

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Protect What You Value Most

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  1. Protect What You Value Most

  2. Today’s presentation will help you understand how home fire sprinklers can: • Save lives • Reduce injuries • Save millions of dollars from property loss

  3. Today’s presentation will: Answer questions, concerns and dispel myths about home fire sprinklers.

  4. U.S. Residential Fire Problem* • A fire every 80 seconds • 83% of fire deaths • 77% of fire injuries • 75% of structure fire property damage • 52% of fireground firefighter deaths *2005 NFPA

  5. Fire Death and Injuries in One- & Two-family Dwellings* (Percentage of Residential) • Fire deaths: 84% • Fire injuries: 75% • Fire property damage: 84% • Fireground firefighter deaths: 85% *2005 NFPA

  6. Fire Victims Who are the primary victims? • Children under 10 • Adults over 70

  7. Local Fire Statistics • (insert local statistics here)

  8. Protect What You Value Most Video Hosted by Ron Hazelton • Home Improvement Editor for ABC’s Good Morning America

  9. Home Fire Sprinklers Save Lives • 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.

  10. Home fire sprinklers reduce property loss • Can contain and may even extinguish a fire in less time than it would take the fire department to arrive on the scene.

  11. Home fire sprinklers reduce water damage • Only the sprinkler closest to the fire will activate, spraying water directly on the fire. • 90% of fires are contained by the operation of just one sprinkler.

  12. Home fire sprinkler cost Nationally, on average, cost in new construction is between 1 and 1.5% of the total building cost.

  13. Home fire sprinklers are inconspicuous • Can be mounted flush with walls or ceilings.

  14. Scottsdale Report: A 15-year study • Scottsdale Sprinkler Ordinance implemented 1/1/86 and evaluated through 1/1/01. • More than 46,000 sprinklered homes. • 49 fires in sprinklered single family homes. • No deaths in sprinklered homes. • 13 people died in homes without sprinklers. • 92% controlled with two sprinklers or less

  15. Scottsdale Report: A 15-year study • Less water damage in sprinklered homes. • Sprinkler systems discharged an average of 341 gallons of water/fire. • 2,935 gallons of water/fire that would have been released by firefighter hoses.

  16. Scottsdale Report: A 15-year study • Less fire damage in sprinklered homes. • Average fire loss per single family sprinklered fire incident: $2,166 (15 yrs 49 fires). • Average fire loss per unsprinklered residential incident: $45,019 (1998-2001 86 fires)

  17. Fire Department can benefit from home fire sprinkler systems. • Fire is being controlled while fire department is responding to call. • Reduces firefighter injuries and deaths.

  18. Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition Mission... To save lives by increasing awareness of the benefits and availability of residential fire sprinkler systems, ultimately increasing the number of installations in new one- and two-family dwellings.

  19. HFSC Steering Committee Members • American Fire Sprinkler Association* • Canadian Automatic Fire Sprinkler Association • Home Safety Council • National Fire Sprinkler Association* • State Farm Insurance • Underwriters Laboratories • United States Fire Administration • *Founding Sponsors

  20. Resources HomeFireSprinkler.org • Animated Fire Timeline • How a Sprinkler Works animation • Water Usage comparison animation • Fire Sprinkler System Facts • Municipal Reports • Educational Material • The Solution Newsletter • Media Resources • Member List

  21. For more information call the HFSC Toll-Free Number 888-635-7222

  22. Sprinklers: Part of the Package • Prevention: Education • Early Warning: Smoke Alarms • Exit: Home Escape Plans • Control: Sprinklers

  23. Protect What You Value Most

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