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Fire Sprinkler System Industry Facts and Figures
Properly installed and maintained automatic fire sprinkler systems help save lives. Because fire sprinkler systems react so quickly, they can
dramatically reduce the heat, flames and smoke produced in a fire.
- Sprinklers typically reduce chances of dying in a fire and the average property loss by one-half to two-thirds compared to where sprinklers are not
present.
- NFPA has no record of a fire killing more than two people in a completely sprinklered public assembly, educational, institutional or residential
building where the system was working properly.
- In 1999, 34% of public assembly properties where fires occurred in the U.S. were equipped with sprinklers, compared with 7% of residential
properties.
- In 2002, 79% of fires occurred in the home, resulting in 2,670 fire deaths.
Source: NFPA's U.S. Experience with Sprinklers and NFPA's Fire Loss in the United States, November 2003, Kimberly D. Rohr.
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P&J Sprinkler Company Inc.
67 Main Street
Willimantic, Ct 06226
Tel
860.456.0515
Fax
860.423.9813
Member of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers
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