Signs of a Carbon Monoxide Leak in Your Home
Carbon monoxide, or CO, is a colorless, tasteless gas produced by the incomplete burning of any carbon fuels such as natural gas or liquified petroleum gas. Your heating equipment may give off trace amounts of this gas, but by design, it vents CO outside, where the gas doesn’t have the…
Top 10 Most Common Causes of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Each year, approximately 20,000 people in the United States visit the emergency room because of carbon monoxide poisoning. While many of those people are treated and released, on average, 400 people will die from carbon monoxide poisoning in a given year. Why is this gas so dangerous? Carbon monoxide is…
How to Secure Windows From Burglars
If you’re like most homeowners, you pay close attention to the security of your home’s front and back doors — an appropriate step when you consider that doors are the preferred entry point of intruders. But, all too often, property owners overlook the importance of window protection from burglars. You…
How to Make Sure Your Pipes Don’t Freeze
Frozen water pipes are a common problem during those frigid New England winters. Freezing can cause a pipe to burst — a crack as small as 1/8″ can allow more than 250 gallons of water to escape in only one day. The flooding can result in thousands of dollars of…
Home Safety Tips for Seniors Who Live Alone
Independence is an important part of living a happy and high-quality life. For seniors, maintaining their freedom can be a joyful experience and allow them to continue living in their home after the passing of a spouse. However, elderly persons living alone also face an increased risk of injury or…
Winter Safety Tips
Anyone living in the northeast region of the United States knows what it means to hunker down for the winter. For most of us, it means turning up the heat, adding fuel to the fire, and adding a blanket on the bed. Mother Nature sure can throw a lot…
Independence Day Safety Tips
Make sure fireworks are legal in the state your in before purchasing or using them. Always have a professional handle fireworks. Never let kids use fire works even just sparklers. If you do set off fireworks keep a hose or water close by. If you have a dud firework, do…
Business Fire Systems
If you are a small or medium sized business owner, you know the importance of protecting your employees, business data and all that you have worked so hard to build over the course of years, and in some cases, decades. Protecting your business from theft, fire, gas and any other…
Creating a Disaster Plan
At Wayne Alarm we are in the business of keeping your family and/or business safe from many potential dangers such as: fires, theft, smoke, CO (carbon monoxide), floods, and other disasters. We stand by our products and all they can do to make our clients’ lives easier and safer. In…
Winter Worries – Candle and Generator Safety
Some of us love winter while others count the days until spring comes back around. Though who can blame those non-winter folk? There’s a lot to think about, especially in this winter wonderland region that we live in. Ice, snow, wind, and blizzards are just a few of the things…
