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Fire Alarms: The Different Types of Systems

Fire. It can be useful, but it can also be highly destructive. When a fire breaks out in your home or business, it can not only cause extreme damage to your property, but can also cause lives to be lost. For these reasons, it’s highly important that no matter where your business is located, whether it’s Canton, Columbus or Akron, fire alarms need to be installed in order to warn you about any possible outbreak of fire. While it’s best to have any type of fire alarm system in your Akron or other Ohio-based business or multi-residential property, you’ll find there are key differences between the two most common types, mainly in their applications. Commonly, fire alarms, also known to the mass populace as “smoke alarms,” can be broken into photoelectric alarms and ionization alarms. Photoelectric Fire Alarms Photoelectric fire alarms are alarms that “see” smoke. Photoelectric alarms are particularly responsive to fire that are smoldering or give out a lot of smoke, and are ide