Fire Detection and Alarm Devices

A fire detection and alarm system is essential for noticing a fire early in its development. Steps can then be quickly taken to evacuate people from the building and to stop the fire in its infancy before it can cause major damage to property.
Fire detection can be both automatically and manually actuated. In an automatic system, an alarm is automatically sounded when a fire is detected using a system which monitors environmental changes that happen due to combustion of materials. The changes in the environment include the presence of smoke, increase in temperature and the rate of rise of heat in an enclosed area. Manually actuated alarm devices such as break glass stations and single station smoke alarms are usually installed in places where such devices can be easily reached and operated, such as near exits.