On Apr 10, 11:00*pm, Tom Horne wrote:
Mike wrote:
My wife is looking for ways to cut some expenses out of our family
budget, and she has suggested that we drop the monitoring of our home
alarm system. *She got the idea from a friend of ours who has done the
same at his small business. *If his alarm starts going off in the
middle of the night, then it will continue to sound until he shows up
the next morning. *I wouldn't say we live in a extremely high-crime
area, but we do live in the suburbs of a city where there is a good
deal of crime. *Any of you folks going "unmonitored" out there??

Thanks....

Mike

P.S. *Our alarm system consists of sensors on all doors, a motion
detector on the main floor, and a smoke alarm (we have several battery-
operated smoke detectors, too).

A study by the Maryland State Fire Marshall showed that half of the
lives lost in a ten year period in Maryland would have been saved by the
use of monitored fire alarms. All but two would have been saved by
residential automatic fire sprinklers.
--
Tom Horne

Does the above exclude exclude situations with working smoke
detectors? Virtually every fire fatality I've read about where info
was provided, there was no working smoke detector.






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