It’s 12:53 am.
You and your family are sound asleep.
10 seconds ago, a small fire started in your living room.
In the next 5 minutes your life may change forever, 
Or you may just need to clean up in the morning, and air out the house.
It will all depend on whether or not you have fire sprinklers in your home.

Every 74 seconds, a house burns in the U.S.
More than 4,000 Americans are in fires every year.
80% of them in home fires.
The victims are usually children and seniors.
Although the majority of home fires start during the days…most fatal fires start at 
night.  Like this one.

One minute after the fire starts, the smoke alarm sounds.  
You don’t smell smoke, but you get up to check.  
It takes almost 30 seconds to reach the stairs and start down.
As you descend, you start to smell smoke.  
You see smoke billowing out of the living room. 
In the living room, the curtains are in flames.
The temperature at the ceiling is approaching 1000 degrees f.
Heat activates the single sprinkler closest to the fire.
Within seconds the flames are controlled and may be extinguished.
Smoke in the living room starts to clear.
If... your home has fire sprinklers.

If not ...
You start back up the stairs, yelling to warn your family.
By the time you reach the top of the stairs, you are blinded by smoke.

Fire is not bright. It is hidden by thick, black smoke.
Building materials and furnishings five off poisonous gases as they burn.
Most people who die in fires don’t die from burns.
Smoke and toxic fumes are almost always the killer.
Sprinklers can prevent or eliminate almost all smoke from fires.
In the blackness, you collide with your spouse.
One goes to your son’s room, the other to your daughter’s.
Your daughter’s room is filled with smoke.  She’s still asleep.  Wrapping your 
daughter in a blanket, you carry her from the room.
Downstairs, the fire spreads through the living room.
The temperature at the living room ceiling approaches 1400 degrees Farenheit.
Carrying your daughter you reach the stairs.  
Gasping for breath in the thick smoky air, you start down.
Fighting the heart and smoke you reach the bottom of the stairs and escape.
The living room is enveloped in flames as the air in the room catches fire and 
flashover occurs.
A wall of searing heat races up the stairs.
Had you been in the living room at flashover, you would not have survived.

Nothing, and no one survives flashover.

Fire is amazingly fast.

In less than 5 minutes the fire is out of control.

You fine your family waiting for you outside.
You all run to a neighbor’s house.

By the time they answer the door and call 9-1-1, seven minutes will have passes 
since the fire started.

In most communities, a four minute response time is considered excellent.

If you have fire sprinklers you may spend the time describing the fire and how it 
was controlled.

If not, you’ll watch your house burn as you wait.

In the distance you hear sirens approaching.

11 minutes after the fire started the first fire equipment arrives.

If you have sprinklers, firefighters will make sure the fire is out and five you the all 
clear.

If you don’t, firefighters will start pouring thousands of gallons of water on the fire.

According to the Scottsdale Report, Fire sprinklers use less that 341 gallons of 
water to put out an average fire.

Firefighters use more than 2,935 gallons for an average fire.  With sprinklers an 
average fire will cause $2,166 in damage.

Without sprinklers, an average fire will cause $45,019 in damage.

A fire like this one may cost more than 10 times that much.

Home fire sprinklers save lives and money.

Protect what you value most.

Install fire sprinklers in your home.