Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition
Building Professionals
Fire Sprinkler Facts
Family at Home


Fire sprinklers provide high-value personal security for your new homes.
Home buyers have never been as aware of security and safety as they are now. New home builders must offer buyers a new level of value to compete successfully. Fire sprinklers are an economic way to increase the desirability of new homes and enhance the builder's reputation for quality construction.

Only the sprinkler closest to the fire will activate, spraying water directly on the fire.
Each sprinkler is individually activated by heat. Despite "sight gags" on TV sit-coms, smoke does not trigger sprinkler operation. The rest of the sprinklers in a house will not activate unless there is also a fire in that location. 90% of all home fires are contained with a single sprinkler.

You can use HFSC's How Home Fire Sprinklers Work animated movie in your presentations to demonstrate the reliability of fire sprinkler systems. Watch the movie

* From NFPA's U.S. Experience with Sprinklers and NFPA's Fire Loss in the United States, November 2003, Kimberly D. Rohr.

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