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An alarm system for the home is needed to protect your home, your possessions and your family from intruders. According to statistics, more than 2 million burglaries occur each year and more than half of these occur in residential homes. When looking for an alarm system, you should know there are many different kinds of systems available. Many people look to an alarm system to protect their home. It does not matter what size of home you live in, whether it is a large home with three stories or a small one-room apartment. An alarm system provides you with the security and peace of mind you need while on vacation, at work or sleeping at night.

There are many different types of alarm systems. One alarm will work to detect motion from an intruder when the alarm is activated. Another type of alarm system may detect any type of temperature change in a specific room. No matter what type of alarm system you have, it will notify anyone passing by, your neighbors, the police or a monitoring center of the activity. When looking for an alarm system, you should know the different aspects of a home alarm. First, it will contain a power source, this is called a control panel. A keypad is put in place to allow the homeowner to deactivate the system upon arrival or activate the system upon departure. Depending on the type of alarm system you purchase, it may have contacts with doors and windows, motion detectors and glass break sensors.

What is great about an alarm system is that, if it is monitored by a monitoring center, it will have a backup system. This system will allow the system to work for around 24 hours if the phone lines are ever cut by an intruder or if you lose electricity. What is even better is that some home alarm systems offer protection in the event of a fire, can detect the difference between your pets and an intruder and even offer video surveillance.

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New Zealand teenager survives falling 16 storeys

26.07.10

Medical staff have described his survival as "miraculous" and say he is likely to be discharged by the end of the week.

They believe he owes his life to first hitting the corrugated steel roof of a parking building below, which buckled as he crashed through it and cushioned his fall.

Doctors say it is very rare for anyone to survive a fall of more than five storeys.

Head injuries are the most common cause of fall deaths and they believe the boy, who has not been named, was also lucky not to have landed on his head.

The alarm was raised by another resident of the apartment block, who was out on his balcony smoking a cigarette when the boy fell past him.

Kaa Wehi, a housekeeper at the complex, said people in the apartments heard a loud crash and thought there had been a car crash until they saw the boy's body lying on the ground.

"Then there was screaming, just screaming."

Ms Wehi told the New Zealand Herald: "The boy's mother ran out of the elevator on the ground floor, shouting 'Is it my boy? Is it my boy?'

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

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