Creating Awareness One Family At A Time

WCMCI Fire & Safety's vision is to build your fire safety IQ and to offer unique products and services aimed at improving the safety of your home. We strive to ensure the equipment protecting your family is operating at peak performance.

We  guarantee you will feel much safer in your home by the time we leave as our products, service and training are geared to building your knowledge and confidence in your fire safety equipment.

According to National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) data we can each expect five home fires in our lifetime. Most will not be reported. So don't be a statistic!

I personally, have experienced with several fires but more recently two home fires. Both fires were extinguished successfully and were not reported. Thankfully the damages were negligible!

An Unreported Apartment Fire-Incident

Whenever, I visit my son in Toronto coffee is always prepared in a stove top Moka pot. This visit as usual, I turned on the element, and left the kitchen to take a quick shower. As I stepped out of the shower the smoke alarm in the hall started into ringing. My first thought was the coffee had boiled over onto the element.

I opened the bathroom door and was shocked to find the apartment was engulfed in smoke. From the distance, I observed the kitchen glowing a bright orange. I shouted to my son, he responded, acknowledging he was awake. I silenced the alarm, and moved quickly towards the kitchen.

In the kitchen, I saw a pot on fire, and the cabinets ablaze. I instinctively turned off the stove, and covered the pot. I carefully moved the hot pot to the sink. I pressed on to deal with the burning cabinets. I attacked the blaze with a t-shirt and quickly extinguished the flames.

What I Learned From This Fire Incident

  1. without a working smoke alarm the fire would have escalated
  2. the importance of checking and knowing smoke alarms are working
  3. a home fire can happen at anytime, anywhere, and to anyone
Did You Know?

A 2017 Statistics Canada report on the performance of smoke alarms in 126,773 reported home fires specifically examined the “non-presence of smoke alarms” and discovered a 60% increase in missing smoke alarms.

It was also reported that non-activation rates averaged 13% over the same  2005-2014 reporting period. *Source National Fire Information Database

Working Smoke Alarms Save Lives

Thirty years ago, we had approximately 17 minutes to escape a home fire. Today, our escape time is three minutes. With escape times so critical working  smoke alarm are so very important.

Smoke Alarm Status In Ontario

The Ontario Fire Marshal's office analyzed smoke alarm performance data collected from 36,159 reported home fires between 2012 and 2016 identified smoke alarms:

  • operated in 44% of the home loss fires
  •  17% of home fires were without alarms
  • undetermined presence in 16%
  • present, but operation undetermined in 8%
  • present, but did not operate **15%

The **15% of the alarms that did not operate

  • 4% had no batteries or AC power
  • 6% were remote or separate from the fire
  • > 1% unit failure; improper installation, tampering, vandalism
  • 1% various other reasons for non-operation
  • 3% reported as undetermined

The OFM also reported 762 fire deaths from 2007 and 2016.

 

Smoke Alarm Status In Ottawa

Since incorporating in 2015 WCMCI Fire & Safety has removed hundreds of expired and non-performing smoke alarms from homes in Ottawa and the surrounding area. Additionally, we have replaced many missing, and disconnected units.

We have discovered incorrectly installed batteries and non functioning 10 year sealed battery units. We have relocated devices to provide optimal coverage and to correct out-of-compliance installations.

We have replaced scorched and burnt devises and units failing a our SmokeCheck functional test. Standard builder grade alarms are being replaced with UL approved battery backup alarms providing protection during power outages.

WCMCI Fire & Safety in the only company in Ottawa functionally testing smoke, and Carbon Monoxide alarms with smoke and CO detector tester.

Be certain to check out WCMCI Fire & Safety's Annual Maintenance Program as it is guaranteed to help make your home safer for everyone.

 

We Offer

Fire, & Safety Equipment Testing and Maintenance

Annual Maintenance

CO Ambient Level Check & Detector Testing

CARBON MONOXIDE

First Alert® Wireless Interconnect®

Interconnected Smoke & CO Alarms

BullsEye™ Fire Extinguisher Training

Fire Extinguisher Training and Mock Fire Drills

 

Insteon Smarthome Monitoring

Free Fire, Smoke, CO, Flood, & Security Monitoring

Professional Service and Training

CFAA Certified & Registered

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