Farmers Branch Home Security 

WFAA Reports - Farmers Branch residents must trim grass or face a fine.

Farmers Branch's new ordinance about landscaping may have bigger implications that just a "well groomed" community. Unkempt lawns put targets on homes and businesses by telling the intruder nobody's home or in some extreme cases; nobody cares. (Not to mention the additional risk of fire caused by the tall dry grass around your building in the hot Texas summer.)

What are the first steps to protecting your home from invasion... Act like you care.

• Act like you care - Remove tools and other implements that could be used in the intrusion.
• Act like you care - Ensure that all of your doors and windows are locked.
• Act like you care - Keep you hedges and trees trimmed from your home to reduce hiding places and easy access to second stories.
• Act like you care - Have a professionally designed security system to protect person and property.

NTX Security offers a FREE Security Evaluation to help you protect your property starting from reducing the curb appeal your home has to interested intruders.

I am asked from time to time what happens when my monitored alarm is tripped (or goes off).

Each situation is different and each of our alarm monitoring centers may respond according to their updated guidleines.  

Your security panel is programmed for a variety of alarms. The type of alarm we receive determines our response.

BURGLAR ALARM 

1. We first call your home or business to rule out a false alarm.
2. If there is no answer or if we receive an incorrect passcode, we contact the police.
3. We then call your home or business again, unless we received an incorrect passcode.
4. If we are unable to reach you after contacting the police, or we received an incorrect passcode, we call the people you have authorized us to contact in the event of a burglar alarm.

HOLD-UP PANIC BUTTON

1. When you push the panic button, we contact the police immediately.
2. On a panic button alarm, we wait an hour after contacting the police to call your home or business, so that an intruder will not know that the police are on the way.

RESIDENTIAL FIRE ALARM

1. We first call your home to rule out a false alarm.
2. If there is no answer after 90 seconds, we contact the fire department.
3. We then call your home again.
4. If we are unable to reach you after contacting the fire department, we call the people you have authorized us to contact in the event of a fire alarm.

Please note - these are general guidelines, policies and procedures, and are subject to change without notice.

Thankfully the kids are ok.

A Fort Worth brother and sister survived a frightening ordeal at the hands of robbers this week when thieves broke in to their house while the siblings were home alone.

For the complete story > Fort Worth Home Invasion