Best Security Products blog

More kitchen fires occur on Thanksgiving Day than any other day during the year. Do you know what to do if a grease fire breaks out in your kitchen – whether at home or at work?

ABC 2 News reports on the dangers of grease fires. According to this report, it can happen within seconds – your stove can go from a small grease fire in a pan to something like an explosion – “a massive fire ball rolling through your home.”

After the fire starts, you have just a few seconds to make the right decision about how to handle it.

Watch the video below for a demonstration, but here are some top tips from the experts:

1. Don’t move a pan that is on fire. When you move it, you provide more air to the fire. The extra air can cause the fire to come back at you.

2. Don’t put water on a grease fire; that can cause an explosion.

Many people make these these mistakes. Our first reaction is to try to move the burning pan to the sink and put water on it. After all, that is how we usually put out fires! But water is the absolute worst thing you can put on a cooking fire.

The best way to put out a cooking fire? Place a lid or cookie sheet on the fire and then turn off the heat. Be sure not to lift the lid until the pan has cooled, because fresh air may cause the flames to reignite. 

You can also purchase a stovetop fire stop and hang over your stove. When the fames reach the can, the fuse on the bottom of the can is ignited causing the fire stop to dump a powered chemical which puts out the fire. It is like an automatic mini-fire extinguisher. 

At Best Security Products, we specialize in fire systems for business and home.

Give us a call at 1-800–988–2378 sales@bestsecurityproducts.com

When a fire breaks out in your office or home, you may have just minutes to make it out to safety. Knowing what to do in the emergency can mean the difference between life and death.

Travis Connelly, a Florida State Certified fire-fighter, EMT and paramedic explains in this short Expert Village video explains that it is important to be able to react fast.

Here are a few highlights from the training. Please click the video below to watch.

If you are in bed when you hear the word “fire” or a fire whistle sounding, it is important to get out of bed as quickly as you can and immediately get as low as possible. The reason he suggests this is because all of the heat is near the top of the room. The floor has the coolest possible temperature. In addition, the smoke will be up above you, but oxygen will be down below.

Next, quickly find a way to orient yourself in the room. For example, feel around and try to find a wall so you have a better idea of where you are in the room. If you practice this enough before there is an emergency, you will know which direction you need to go to find the door, and you should move towards that door as quickly as possible.

Once you get to the door, be sure to check it for heat, because the fire could be on the other side of the door. If you arrive at the door and find it to be hot, you are still against the wall and are therefore still oriented in the room. You can quickly determine where the widow is and head in that direction.

Just remember that staying low is the best strategy for safety in a fire.

Having a quality fire security system in your home or business is the best way to stay safe in the event of a fire. A fire system will alert you as soon as possible after a fire has started and buy you life-saving minutes to escape.

Give us a call at 1-800–988–2378 sales@bestsecurityproducts.com

As a business owner, you no doubt are aware that billions of dollars are lost each year to theft. One of your best defenses against theft is having a high quality business alarm system installed, maintained and monitored by a professional security company. And there is one aspect of this type of system that is particularly important: night vision video cameras.

It is a well-known fact that burglars prefer to do their work under the cover of darkness, since this lessens the odds that they will be caught. This is one of the reasons why security lighting is such an important part of your overall security plan: when the area around your business (parking lot, doors and windows) is brightly lit, a burglar will not see your business as an attractive opportunity. Likewise, keeping the inside of your business brightly lit at night is also a smart strategy for repelling burglars, since passers-by can easily see what is happening inside your business and could see the burglar.

However, even with security lights in place, there may still be dimly lit areas around the interior and exterior of your building. Regular video surveillance cameras will not be effective in dim areas; the images and recording will be low quality and of little use in identifying and apprehending the criminal.

Night vision cameras from Honeywell are the right choice for protecting your business at night. Click here for an informational brochure about Honeywell Night Vision Security cameras, but here is a short excerpt explaining the infrared light that makes these cameras the right choice for superior burglar protection:

Infrared light is a light that the human eye cannot see, but the monochrome CCTV camera can. Near infrared light is light of a longer wavelength than the visible spectrum, between 700 and 1,100 nm, just beyond the visible spectrum. It is this near infrared light that is used for CCTV purposes.

As infrared light contains none of the colors visible to humans it cannot be used with color cameras. To see infrared light, monochrome or day/night cameras are needed. CCTV cameras using infrared light always provide monochrome images.

Applications that require covert surveillance, or applications where even low levels of overt lighting must be avoided for reasons of light pollution, are ideal for infrared light.

At Best Security Products, we can install Honeywell night vision cameras to protect your business. Give us a call or email us at 1-800–988–2378 sales@bestsecurityproducts.com

Source: http://www.honeywellvideo.com/documents/NightVisionSecurity.pdf