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Home fire sprinklers

Home fire sprinklers save lives and property. In many situations, a family who has survived a fire will also have their “home” to live in and enough of the items and space in their home to continue living their lives as they did before. Read all of NFPA's home fire sprinkler safety tips and download our free safety tip sheet.

Properly installed and maintained automatic fire sprinkler systems help save lives. Because fire sprinkler systems react so quickly, they can dramatically reduce the heat, flames, and smoke produced in a fire. Fire sprinklers have been around for more than a century, protecting commercial and industrial properties and public buildings. What many people don't realize is that the same life-saving technology is also available for homes, where roughly 85% of all civilian fire deaths occur.

NFPA's Fire Sprinkler Initiative
The "Fire Sprinkler Initiative®: Bringing Safety Home" project outlines proven, effective ways that home fire sprinkler advocates can communicate the impact of sprinklers. Visit the initiative web site for free resources for the fire service and other sprinkler advocates, including fact sheets, videos, research, and our "Faces of Fire" campaign, which features real people telling personal stories that demonstrate the need for home fire sprinklers.

Home fire sprinklers included at the VISION House® in INNOVENTIONS at Epcot®
The environmental impact of home fire sprinklers is being shown at the new Green Builder® Media’s VISION House® exhibit in INNOVENTIONS at Epcot®, which opened on Earth Day 2012. Learn more about the exhibit and a study that shows greenhouse gases released by burning buildings can be reduced by 98% when automatic fire sprinklers are installed.

Green Builder® Media’s VISION House® exhibit in INNOVENTIONS at Epcot® at the Walt Disney World® Resort

Facts about home fire sprinklers

If you have a reported fire in your home, the risk of dying decreases by about 80 percent when sprinklers are present.
People in homes with sprinklers are protected against significant property loss—sprinklers reduce the average property loss by about 71% per fire.
Home sprinkler systems respond quickly to reduce the heat, flames, and smoke from a fire, giving families valuable time to get to safety.
Roughly 85 percent of the time, just one sprinkler operates.

Read NFPA's "U.S. Experience with Sprinklers" report by John R. Hall, Jr., March 2012.

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In this Section:

			About home fire sprinklers Sprinklers are so effective because they react very quickly.					Environmental impact of home fire sprinklers Greenhouse gases released by burning buildings reduced by 98% with sprinklers

			Home fire sprinkler safety tips Home fire sprinklers can save lives and property from fire.					Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition This organization provides information about the life-saving value of installing automatic fire sprinkler protection in homes.

			NFPA codes require sprinklers The latest editions of several NFPA code documents require home fire sprinklers.