When you’re considering how to choose the right alarm system for your home and deciding between home security companies on Long Island, remember that there’s more to your security than just protection against burglary and invasion.
Arming your home with an alarm system has the obvious advantages of preventing unauthorized entry, burglary and the types of dangers that can posed by intruders, but there may be other dangers in your home, ones that you cannot detect.
Carbon monoxide is the most common type of air poisoning in homes. Because it is odorless, colorless and tasteless, you and your loved ones could be overcome by a buildup of carbon monoxide in your home without ever knowing you were in danger.
That’s what happened to a family in Central Islip, when a generator in the basement began spewing high concentrations of carbon monoxide. Luckily, two members of the family called for help because they felt dizzy and suffered headaches. But because carbon monoxide poisoning symptoms – headache, dizziness, nausea and vomiting – mimic those of the flu, many people may not realize that carbon monoxide is the problem and assume they are just unwell. Failure to recognize carbon monoxide poisoning in time can prove fatal.
Carbon monoxide in the home can be produced by furnaces, fireplaces, water heaters and room heaters – any appliance that is incompletely burning the fuel it uses could be a source of carbon monoxide.
Of the home security companies on Long Island, All Island Security can equip your home with efficient carbon monoxide detectors that will alert you to the presence of this otherwise undetectable gas before you or your family suffer from its ill effects.
With 24 hour monitoring at our location in Nassau County, our trained professional staff are always working to protect you and your loved ones from any type of emergency situation, even carbon monoxide.
