Sprinkler systems provide automatic protection,they put water on the flames immediately, controlling or extinguishing the fire in time to save lives.

On average, fire kills eight people each week in Canada, with residential fires accounting for 73% of these fatalities

• If you have a reported fire in your home, the risk of dying decreases by about 80 percent when wet pipe sprinklers are present.

• People in homes with sprinklers are protected against significant property loss—wet pipe sprinklers reduce the average property loss by 71% per fire.

•  In home fires deemed large enough to activate an operational sprinkler, wet pipe sprinklers operated and were effective 92% of the time.

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