Taipei City Fire Department

Around year-end, there are many fire accidents around the island causing injuries and the loss of many lives. It also destroys lots of happy families. When we analyze what causes these tragedies, it is often due to the fact that people sleep at night and cannot immediately react to the fire accident and thus cannot flee timely.
As fire fighters put it, now many old apartments do not have fire alarm devices. Thus, they don’t know there is fire and it is the main reason why many people can’t escape. For the safety of life and property, it is advised people install fire alarm devices.
According to American statistics, a fire alarm device can wake up sleeping people and achieve a 96% chance of escaping and reduce death toll greatly in household fire accidents. It shows that fire alarm devices can be of great help to protect our lives. However, at present, most of the old apartments in our country don’t have this kind of device and thus it decreases the chance of escaping.
Fire alarm devices are not expensive, with most of them NT$500 ~ NT$800 on average. The devices are available on the market. When we buy a fire alarm device, it is important to check if the product contains qualification labels from National Fire Agency, Ministry of the Interior. And after installing fire alarm devices, remember to regularly test it, clean it and change the batteries.