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Written on January 27th, 2012 | Fire Safety Tips
One of the most common things you hear when shopping around for a fire protection company is you shouldn’t hire a company based on price, but instead on trust. Well this story proves that advice is true: last summer the owner of Atlas Fire Protection in Norfolk, VA was arrested and charged with failure to perform testing in accordance with approved standards. According to the news report on Wavy.com, Atlas offered prices far lower than the normal cost for most fire protection services. However, says Norfolk Fire-Rescue Battalion Chief Harry Worley, “A confession by [the business owner] was he was just putting stickers on bottles and sending them back out again.”
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Written on January 26th, 2012 | Fire Safety Tips,Sprinkler Systems
Here’s an interesting statistic: according to a new report from the NFPA, high-rise buildings actually tend to have a lower risk of fire and associated losses than lower-rise buildings! Fires in high-rise buildings cause about $230 million a year in property damage and take more than 50 lives. Overall, however, this represented only 2.6% of all reported structure fires from 2005-2009.
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Written on January 19th, 2012 | Fire Safety Tips
It’s no secret that fire sprinklers will make your building much safer – it’s something we mention on just about every blog post we write! But one of the misconceptions we commonly see is people believe if they have a fire sprinkler system in their building they are automatically perfectly safe. While they are definitely safer, fires can still do considerable damage if they get out of hand. The best way to protect life and property in your building? Make sure in addition to your fire sprinkler system, all of your employees or tenants are up to speed on how to prevent fires from starting in the first place!
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Written on December 27th, 2011 | Fire Alarms
At Guardian Fire Protection, we talk a lot about the importance of fire alarm maintenance. After all, when it comes to protecting life and property, your fire alarm is one of the most important things you can have installed in your building. But what exactly is involved in “proper fire alarm maintenance?”
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Written on December 19th, 2011 | Fire Safety Tips
It’s that time of year again: trees in the shop windows, electric candles all around, and of course, furnaces, fireplaces, space heaters and all manner of potentially flammable devices. It’s around this time many fire departments around your area will be hosting a variety of demonstrations to remind people they need to take extra precautions this holiday season. Every year, an average of 210 residential and commercial fires are caused by holiday trees. If you’re planning on putting up a tree to celebrate the holidays in your Maryland, Virginia or Washington, DC building, follow these tips to make sure your holiday cheer doesn’t turn your business to coal!
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Written on October 12th, 2011 | Fire Extinguishers
You already know how important it is to make sure your fire extinguishers are fully charged at all times. Fires in most buildings are pretty rare but always possible, and if your fire extinguishers aren’t fully charged, you’re putting yourself and your employees at grave risk.
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Written on October 10th, 2011 | Fire Safety Tips
October 9th marks the 140th anniversary of the famous Great Chicago Fire and the lesser known but actually more destructive Peshtigo fire, two of the most devastating fires in our country’s history. Legend has it that the Great Chicago Fire was started in Mrs. O’Leary’s barn, where an otherwise innocent milking cow knocked over a lamp and set the whole city on fire with a blaze that spread over 2,000 acres, destroyed 17,400 homes, killed 250 people and left another 100,000 homeless.
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Written on October 5th, 2011 | Fire Extinguishers
At Guardian Fire Protection, we’ve been busy recently! Coming in right on the heels of our FedEx field kitchen fire suppression system inspections, we recently completed a huge fire extinguisher maintenance project at the Thurgood Marshall building in DC! The job included several parts, including:
- 6 year maintenance for 328 5lb ABC fire extinguishers
- Installation and tagging of five new 5lb fire extinguishers
- Hydrotest of 10lb ABC fire extinguisher
- Installation and tagging of one new 10lb fire extinguisher
- 6 year maintenance of four 9lb Cleanguard fire extinguishers
Fire extinguishers are some of the most valuable fire protection equipment you have in your building, and making sure they are properly maintained is extremely important. Proper fire extinguisher maintenance includes monthly self checkups, annual professional inspections, six year heavy duty maintenance and 10 year hydrotesting – all of which are required in order to ensure that your fire extinguishers stay in good shape and are ready to keep you protected at a moment’s notice.
If you own a building in Maryland, DC or Virginia and you need fire extinguisher maintenance, including annual fire extinguisher inspection, 6 year fire extinguisher maintenance or fire extinguisher hydrotesting, call Guardian Fire Protection today! We can provide all of these services in addition to fire extinguisher repair and replacement as necessary.
Written on September 28th, 2011 | Fire Safety Inspection,Sprinkler Systems
If you live in an apartment building, you probably don’t ever think about your building’s fire sprinkler system. Fortunately, if you happen to live in the Huntington at King Farm, you don’t have to – Guardian Fire Protection just inspected the fire sprinkler systems throughout the apartment complex, and they’re a-ok!
Whether you manage an apartment complex, a corporate office or any other type of commercial building in Rockville, Maryland, annual fire sprinkler inspection is extremely important to make sure your equipment, supplies, and, most importantly, people are kept safe from fires at all times. Guardian Fire Protection has over 30 years experience inspecting and testing all types of fire sprinklers, so if you need fire sprinkler inspection, call us today!
If you run a commercial building in Rockville, Maryland or anywhere else in the Maryland, DC, Virginia area and need fire sprinkler inspection or service for your building, call Guardian Fire Protection today!
Written on September 21st, 2011 | Fire Alarms,Fire Safety Inspection
If you live in the Huntington at King Farm apartments, you may have seen a few friendly faces in your building last month – specifically, Guardian Fire Protection’s fire alarm inspection experts! They recently completed a fire alarm inspection across the whole property, so you can sleep better knowing that your building’s fire alarms are in perfect working order and will be able to keep you protected from fires at all times.
If you operate a building in Rockville or anywhere else in the Maryland, DC or Virginia area and need fire alarm inspection, call Guardian Fire Protection today!
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