Residential Fire Protection
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Smoke alarms save lives. If there is a fire in your home, smoke spreads fast and you need smoke alarms to give you time to get out. Carbon Monoxide, often called the invisible killer, is an odorless, colorless gas created when fuels (such as gasoline, wood, coal, natural gas, propane, oil, and methane) burn incompletely. In the home, heating and cooking equipment that burn fuel are potential sources of carbon monoxide. Vehicles or generators running in an attached garage can also produce dangerous levels of carbon monoxide.
Smoke and Carbon Monoxide detectors should be installed in a central location outside each sleeping area and on every level of the home, and in other locations where required by applicable laws, codes or standards. For the best protection, interconnect all Carbon Monoxide alarms throughout the home.