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Home fire sprinklers can contain and may even extinguish a fire in less time than it would take the fire department to arrive on the scene. |
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Nationwide more than 4,000 people die in fires each year, 80% of which occur in the home. |
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False |
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Fire sprinklers save lives, reduce property loss and can even help cut homeowner insurance premiums. |
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False |
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Installing both smoke alarms and a fire sprinkler system reduces the risk of death in a home fire by 50%, relative to having neither. |
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False |
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If a fire occurs within a home, smoke activates sprinklers throughout the entire house. |
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False |
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Nationally, on average, home fire sprinkler systems add 7% to 10% of the total building cost in new construction. |
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False |
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Fire hoses, on average, use more than 3-1/2 times the water that sprinklers do to contain a fire. |
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False |
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Sprinklers may go off accidentally. |
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False |
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| 9. |
Modern fire sprinklers detract or reduce a home’s overall value due to the fact that they are unsightly or ugly. |
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False |
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Sprinkler heads tend to leak. |
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False |
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Residential Sprinkler Systems are too expensive to install. |
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False |
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According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a home fire can reach deadly proportions in only three minutes or less. |
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False |
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In a survey of more than 1,000 adults, 47% said they would definitely consider installing a home fire sprinkler system if they were building a new home. |
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False |
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| 14. |
Sprinklers operate all at once, flooding every room in the house. |
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False |
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| 15. |
A recent study shows that in about 90% of home fires, only ONE sprinkler was necessary to control the fire. |
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False |
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