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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!
Written on August 29th, 2011 | Fire Extinguishers
One thing that makes a lot of people nervous about purchasing fire extinguishers is the thought of going to the store, picking out the best brand and class of fire extinguisher to suit their building’s needs and then loading them into a cart, bringing them to a checkout aisle and carting them all back to their offices. Well fortunately, purchasing fire extinguishers in bulk is nothing like this – at all. In fact, purchasing fire extinguishers in bulk is pretty easy!
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Written on August 17th, 2011 | Fire Extinguishers
If you own a building in Maryland, Virginia or Washington, DC, you know how important it is to have working, well maintained fire extinguishers to keep your building safe. Of course, fire extinguishers aren’t the kind of thing you can just pick up at an office supply store – especially not with the number of fire extinguishers you need to have in a standard sized office building. Fortunately, at Guardian Fire Protection we make buying fire extinguishers for your office easy!
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Written on August 12th, 2011 | Kitchen Fire Suppression Systems
If you get a hot dog or some nachos at a Redskins game this year, you can quietly thank Guardian Fire Protection for keeping your food (and the people who make it) safe. That’s right, the Rockville, Maryland-based fire protection company, serving Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC just hydrotested every kitchen fire suppression system in the stadium – a $25,000 job!
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Written on August 5th, 2011 | Emergency Lighting
One of the most basic elements of a fire protection system is proper emergency lighting. In any kind of emergency, the electricity (and therefore the lights) are most likely going to be the first things to go – and even the momentary panic from the loss of power can be enough to cause personal injury or property damage.
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Written on July 20th, 2011 | Fire Safety Inspection,Fire Safety Tips
Is your building ready for a fire inspection? The fire marshal could drop by unannounced at any time, so it is important that you make sure your building is up to code at all times. But what does “up to code” really mean? After all, fire codes can be complicated and while many items are common sense, there are a few that are a little trickier. That’s where this checklist comes in! Keep on top of all the items on this checklist and your building will stay safe from fires – and fire marshal fines!
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Written on June 17th, 2011 | Fire Alarms
Do you know what type of fire alarm you need to install in your building? There are three major categories of fire alarms, each of which designed to respond to different fire-caused stimuli:
- Thermal fire alarms are activated by the heat of a fire
- Ionization fire alarms are activated by smoke and gas from flaming fires
- Photoelectric fire alarms are activated by smoke from smoldering fires
The conditions and fire hazard level in your building will determine the type of fire alarm you need. So, how do you know?
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Written on May 27th, 2011 | Fire Safety Tips
If you operate a warehouse of any size in Maryland, Virginia or Washington, DC, you know how important it is to be compliant with all fire codes. Not only does meeting all required fire code standards increase the safety of your warehouse, but it can also help you avoid potentially hefty fire marshal fines. Of course, if you shoot to meet the minimum standard of the fire codes will only get you the minimum amount of fire protection – if you want to be truly protected, there are a lot more steps you can take!
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Written on May 20th, 2011 | Fire Alarms
Many people think that all it takes to be protected from a fire is to stick a fire alarm on the wall. But there’s a lot more to it than that! The actual location of your fire alarm plays a huge role in how well it is able to keep your building (and everyone inside of it) protected. Installing your fire alarm in the right place not only increases your level of protection against fires, but it can also reduce the chance of frustrating false alarms!
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Written on May 18th, 2011 | Fire Pumps
Imagine if you did nothing but sit on the couch for six months, watching TV and eating pizza. month. Then, all of a sudden, someone forces you to get up and run a mile as fast as you can. You probably wouldn’t be able to do it, would you? Now imagine that it wasn’t you sitting there not doing anything, but it was your fire pump, and after six months of inactivity, it has to spring into action to protection for building from a fire. Can you reasonably expect this to happen?
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