National Fire Prevention Week: October 7 to 13

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Ready for National Fire Prevention Week starting Sunday, October 7, and running through Saturday, October 13, with Monday, October 08, as Fire Prevention Day.

October is always the month that as Summer ends and Fall begins that consumers and commercial business owners of sleeping rooms such as hotels, universities, and senior care facilities (independent and dependent care providers) begin to start thinking about fire prevention and safety.

Thus, it is a great month to contact your customers and mention fire safety prevention week because fire safety involves themselves, their families, and their businesses.

Do not forget about our baby boomers and seniors population because 10,000 people a day celebrate their 65th birthday and these celebration will continue for the next 17 years.

Concerns about fire alarm notification should be a serious concern for the aging population during an emergency fire situation because it is not just about detection, but notification and an action plan with escape route. In general, fire and smoke alarms use high frequency sound for notification, as we grow older we lose our high frequency hearing, 65% of people in their seventies and 90% of people eighty years and older have lost their high frequency hearing. Immediate notification is important because in a fire situation, seconds count, and as we grow older we are not as mobile and quick as we use to be to execute on our action plan and follow our escape path. Besides the senior population, 55 million people between the ages of 20 and 69 years of age suffer from hearing loss.

Seconds count in a fire situation and fire does not discriminate amongst its victims. That is “why” the SafeAwake is such an important life safety device because it works with your smoke or fire alarm and provides “tactile” stimulation of the senses as its means of personal notification to awaken a sleeping individual to a fire emergency.