It detailed safety precautions such as keeping 24 fire extinguishers and 11 smoke detectors on hand.
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House fires kill around 500 people a year, mostly in homes without smoke detectors.
The money, he said, might better have been spent on putting smoke detectors in people's houses.
By making insurance contingent on smoke detectors, insurers cut down on deaths and losses from building fires.
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The cabin built and slept in by campers last summer needs a bathroom, fire sprinklers and smoke detectors.
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Television sets, smoke detectors and luminous watches can also contribute tiny amounts.
There were no smoke detectors installed in the housing association property.
In mitigation, he said Ashcroft, whose parents died when he was young, targeted premises where there were smoke detectors and sprinklers, and did not use petrol.
The ZigBee wireless protocol was designed as a cheaper and lower-power alternative to Bluetooth and Wi-Fi for embedding in lighting switches, thermostats, smoke detectors and other sensors.
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Prosecuting, Martin Yale said Ashcroft told police he travelled around Britain by train, setting fires in buildings which had smoke detectors so the alarm would be raised quickly.
My technical mind processed the frequency of tweets (unlike some of our politicians on Twitter) and concluded it was not an injured bird but one of the smoke detectors with a low battery.
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Until then, they were fairly boring things, with most people understanding how they worked only because their neighborhood streetlights went on when they sensed darkness, smoke detectors sounded alarms and fire trucks beeped because motion sensors understood when they were backing up.
Because of the recent disclosures that involve dangers of installing the wrong type of smoke detectors, I thought this would be a good segue into the world of smoke alarms to make sure everyone understood the difference and to protect themselves and their parents from the dangers inherent in selecting the cheaper, less effective, and much more unreliable type of traditional sensors.
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Steven Burt, G24's chief financial officer, talks of light-bulb-powered TV remote controls, smoke detectors and computer keyboards. (A non-removable internal battery would store charge for use when the lights are off.) The company already offers prototypes of bags and jackets with photosensitive panels woven in, designed to charge digital cameras and mobile phones, and a hotel in Las Vegas is using G24's products to run its electric window-blinds.
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Older alarm devices and panels are prone to failure and life-safety sensors such as smoke and carbon monoxide detectors must be periodically replaced to work reliably.
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The base station itself can connect to as many as 240 lights and switches, with support for all sorts of devices: heat and cooling systems, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, doorbells, dehumidifiers and motion sensors.
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