Austin Home Security is all about being prepared.

You have used the advice provided by your Home Security Blog. You have a home security system that you arm religiously. You have taken steps outside your home to provide an uncomfortable environment for intruders. 

And then you tell Facebook that you are going on a vacation to Asia next week...  Consider this, then read the following article Please Rob Me!

Here are some Home Security Austin Facebook Tips.

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(Source: Lewisville Police Department / Dallas Morning News)

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Here are three tips to reduce your risk of home burglary: 

1. Check all your doors and windows to ensure they are locked before leaving for work daily. Most burglaries happen during the day while you are away at work or school. 
2. Install "long throw" dead bolt locks on solid core exterior doors. Most intrusions happen through your front door.
3. Arm your monitored home security system in the away mode, activating all applicable motion detectors and reducing any delay times. 

Bonus Tip: Contact NTX Security for a free Home Security Analysis where a trained security professional can assist you in designing an effective security solution to meet most any budget. 

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Beginning March 1, the Frisco Police Department will begin enforcement of the city's new residential and business burglar alarm ordinance. The city council passed the ordinance late last year, but officials held off on enforcing it to give residents and business owners time to comply.

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The city council passed an ordinance late last year that requires residents and businesses to pay a $35 annual fee for their alarms and imposes fines up to $100 for excessive false alarms in a calendar year.

Frisco Alarm Permits Here:

Frisco Alarm Permit.pdf (152.32 kb)

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Fact: Fire does not care who you are, how much money you make, what kind of car you drive or how much "stuff" you have in your man cave. Fire does not care if you are white or black, rich or poor, single or married.

Here are some more facts:

• An estimated 54,500 heating fires occur each year in the United States.
• Heating is the second leading cause of all residential building fires following cooking. 
• Residential building heating fires peak in January and February; this peak accounts for 34 percent of fires.
• Confined heating fires, those fires confined to chimneys, fuels, fuel boxes, or boilers, account for 87 percent of residential building heating fires.
• Thirty-one percent of the nonconfined residential building heating fires occur because the heat source is too close to combustibles.
• Residential building heating fires peak in the early evening hours between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. with the highest peak between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. This 4-hour period accounts for 30 percent of all residential building heating fires.
• The percent of residential building heating fires declines to the lowest point during the summer months from June to August. Heating fires during these months tend to be confined fuel burner/boiler malfunction fires (64 percent) or involve water heaters (10 percent).

View the entire report on Heating Fires in Residential Buildings here:

Heating Fires in Residential Buildings.pdf (758.39 kb)

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Ultimately stats are just numbers and do not protect a family or business, prevent an intrusion or heal a victim.

Take steps to better prepare yourself in the event of an emergency:

1. Read about steps you can take to protect yourself from crime and violence www.MyNTX.com/blog
2. Make a commitment to be an active participant in your own crime prevention program - in other words, put action to what you learn.
3. Request a Free Security Review from the security professionals at NTX Security.

At NTX Security we offer free security related information and suggestions to our community and our potential clients through our website, security blog, news articles and our free on-site security evaluations. Please feel free to send this article to someone you care about or whom you feel could benefit from this information. Click here for Business Security or here for Home Security.

My Security Insider - Feb-2010 - Vol 1Issue 1.pdf (632.46 kb)