Wednesday, November 25, 2009

What You Can Do When Your Home Alarm Systems Go Off

By Troy Livy

Home alarm systems are generally for the purpose of alerting the homeowners of any break-ins or other emergencies such as fire or earthquake. Consequently, it can become really annoying if your alarm will go off falsely.

As mentioned, security is the primary reason why alarms are installed. Homeowners also want to have peace of mind whenever they leave their houses for work. They do not want to be in a situation wherein they will be bothered anytime during their work and think that someone is trying to open up his house. In other words, homeowners install alarm systems so that they will be safe living and leaving their own houses.

A common misconception with alarm systems is that people think these are only for human intruders and break-ins. Alarm systems are not only for detecting burglars or intruders! There are alarm systems for fire and carbon monoxide too. These two are often missed and left out by homeowners but they are also very equally important.

Fire alarm systems are very important because without it, you will not be able to determine if your house is on fire even if the fire is just on your first floor. There are fire alarm systems that when it sounds, water sprinklers automatically are put on. Thus, the fire will automatically be put off. Carbon monoxide alarm systems are very important since it will inform you that there is carbon monoxide inside your house. Carbon monoxide poising is a life threatening situation.

When your home alarm systems trigger, do not panic. Keep your presence of mind. Once you panic, you will not be able to act and respond appropriately and immediately to the emergency if there is, indeed, one. If your burglar alarm triggers and you are in your house, be sure to determine where the alarm sounded. It might be your window, or your door. The sound of the alarm is enough to frighten the burglars. When the alarm sounds, the burglar will surely run away from your house. They will not continue to go inside your house and ransack it. Once they are gone, you can call the police and inform the proper authorities.

In case your fire alarm triggers, find the nearest exit and go outside the house. Again, finding an exit is just an easy thing to do, but once you are in a state of panic, you could not think straight. Therefore, again, being calm and relax can help you out. If you are not able to reach for an exit for one reason or another, call the fire department. If help has not yet arrived, some people say is to break your window so that you can use this as an exit.

Then there is the possibility of carbon monoxide alarm system triggering. If it does, the only best thing you can do is to go out of your house and then call the police and inform them of the situation. If you are not able to get out of the house for some reason, call 911 and inform them.

Home alarm systems can definitely be of great help to all of us. It can even save our lives. So the best way to do when our alarm system triggers, stay calm, don't go panic and have presence of mind.

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