Fike to be on Fox Business Channel

From www.fike.com/corporate/events.asp#244:

Fike featured on Manufacturing Mavels, January 6 – 6, 2012

Fike will be featured on the Fox Business News Manufacturing Marvels show on Friday, January 6th at 7:35pm, CST. Check your local cable listings to find the Fox Business News channel in your area. Tune in to see how Fike has become a global leader in providing products and services that protect people and critical assets from dangers such as fire, explosion and over-pressurization.

We’ll be sure to tune in, and if we can get video of it after the fact on YouTube, we’ll post it here.

Check Those Detectors

We were reading an article in a Mass. paper called “The Patriot Ledger” which contained a point that can’t be stressed enough.

The article, in pondering whether or not mandating sprinkler systems in one and two family homes is necessary, notes this:

To date, more than 30 states have either declined to adopt or passed legislation against making sprinklers mandatory in one- and two-family homes. One might reasonably ask why. The NFPA’s own data tell the tale. Working smoke alarms give home occupants a 99.45 percent chance of surviving a house fire and sprinklers are not going to increase that significantly.

No matter if you’re a homeowner or business decision maker reading this, and regardless of how you lean on mandating sprinklers or any other sort of fire protection equipment, hopefully one word from the quote struck you:  working.  No matter if it’s one detector in a hallway in your home or a business with hundreds of detectors wired into a fire alarm panel, don’t delay in making sure your devices work!  That might mean a simple push of the button to test a battery at home, or, it may mean a call to your trusted local fire safety company.  In any event, this can be a matter of life and death so don’t put it off until tomorrow.

As always, contact us here if you have any questions.

–Your friends at Boynton Fire

Winter and Holiday Safety Tips from the NFPA

The NFPA has published some handy tips to consider when decorating for the holidays.

Check the tips out here online, or, for a handy pdf you can print out, click here.

Be safe, and have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Boynton Fire Employee “Pays it Forward”

Joe and Kristeen Hulliberger are in the news for their work with the Pepsi Refresh Project at DeVos Children’s Hospital.

See the video at Fox 17 News here.

Reminder – Fire Prevention Week is Next Week!

Remember, Fire Prevention Week 2011 is October 9-15.  Head on over to the NFPA’s fire prevention week website for lots of great content!

The amount of time and energy they’ve devoted to putting quality materials together is amazing.  For example, there are full lesson plans for educators, broken down by grade level, including downloadable PDF transparencies and very detailed procedures on how to guide a classroom through a fire prevention discussion.  Take a look at this lesson plan for grades 1-2, for example.  If you’re a teacher or a homeschool parent, definitely check out that teachers page full of those types of lessons.

Want to go through something a little more casual?  They have a page for kids and families as well.

Click around, you’re almost certainly going to find something useful — and potentially lifesaving — among the materials there.

As always, be safe!

–Your friends at Boynton Fire Safety Service

 

 

Replace Detectors More than 10 Years Old

We urge you to consider checking out the detectors around your home and business.  Why?  Check out this article on WLNS 6 … and bear in mind that this recommendation by the ELFD is valid even if you don’t live in East Lansing.

Questions about your smoke detectors?  Are you uncertain if they’re 10 years old or more or if they’ll still function in the event of a fire?  If your detectors are battery powered, did you know you can get a smoke detector that has a 10-year lithium battery in it, eliminating the need to check the battery twice a year?

Give us a call or contact us here with any questions.

Be Safe,

Your Friends at Boynton Fire Safety Service

Clean Agent Fire Suppression

Could a clean agent fire suppression system be right for your business?

Water-based sprinkler fire suppression systems are not the right solution in every circumstance.  For example, consider a room containing computers or other sensitive electronic equipment, or even paper documents.  Water from an overhead sprinkler can certainly extinguish a fire; but can still damage your assets and property.

With a clean agent fire suppression system like those offered by Fike Corporation, no water or chemicals that leave a harmful or corrosive residue are used.   Property damage and business interruption is minimalized, the speed of extinguishing the fire is greatly increased, and there’s no expensive clean-up.

Could a Fike fire protection system be right for your business?  Boynton Fire Safety Service is licensed to furnish and install a wide range of Fike fire detection and protection systems.  Contact us today for a free site survey and quote to see if a clean agent system is the right choice to protect your business and property.

Fike FM200 Clean Agent System

Family Emergency Plan Checklist

There’s a lot of emergency checklists out on the web; ready.gov has one of the best.  The page includes a lot of helpful plans and checklists, including wallet-sized plans you can print out for yourself and your kids that organize emergency contact numbers, medical and allergy info, school info, and more.

While it’s essential to make sure you have a plan in place to get out of your home or business safely in the event of a fire, there’s overlap with general planning for disasters that makes it helpful to think about emergencies on a larger scale.  What if an emergency develops that affects both your business and your home?  As you’re evacuating your workplace, are you confident your family knows what to do at their workplace, school, or back at your home?

Regardless if a fire, tornado, flood, or zombie invasion forces you or your family to evacuate your home and/or work, the end result is similar – you need a plan for how you’ll contact each other and get back together if you’re apart, and how you’ll handle various situations.

So check the site out, make a plan, and as always, be safe!

–Your friends at Boynton Fire

September is National Preparedness Month

As the sobering 10th anniversary of 9/11 is upon us, the U.S. Fire Administration has declared September as “National Preparedness Month.”

That may sound a bit hokey, but if you take a look at their site, they actually make some great points about some very basic things you should have in place, for example an emergency supply kit and a family escape plan.

If you haven’t thought through these sorts of issues, take a look!  There’s some excellent suggestions about preparedness to help your family be ready for an emergency that will make it well worth your time to visit.

As always, be safe!

-Your Friends at Boynton Fire

October 8-15 is Fire Prevention Week

Fire Prevention is no joke!

Some things that we fear aren’t quite as big of a deal as they’re made out.  Take sharks, for example.  Despite having a full week dedicated to them by a prominent cable network, more people die from lightning than from shark attacks each year.  I’m not suggesting Sharks aren’t to be feared, but with only 16 shark attacks and slightly less than one fatality in the US each year, go ahead and enjoy the very entertaining array of shows on during shark week.

Don’t make the mistake of laughing at fire, though.

According to NFPA.org:

• One home structure fire was reported every 87 seconds in 2009.
• On average, seven people died in home fires every day. Adults 65 and over face the highest risk of fire death.
• In 2009, U.S. fire departments responded to 362,500 home structure fires. These fires caused 12,650 civilian injuries, 2,565 civilian deaths, $7.6 billion in direct damage.

Now those stats are no laughing matter.  Want to learn more?  Check out www.firepreventionweek.org and check out everything from webinars and online quizzes to information you can purchase and distribute to your school or organization.

And as always, if you’re in Michigan and you have fire prevention questions about your facility, feel free to contact us for a free consultation.

Be Safe,

Your Friends at Boynton Fire

Member, NFPA