Protect Your Home During the Holidays
The holidays are meant to be spent with family and friends, exchanging presents and recounting old traditions. You can almost hear the sound of gift-wrapping being torn away from boxes in time with the squeals of excitement, can’t you?
Unfortunately during the holiday season, your home and belongings are vulnerable to burglaries and break-ins. On this week’s episode, learn why your home may be attractive to burglars and how to safeguard against unexpected visitors.
IMPORTANCE OF INTERACTIVE ALARM MONITORING
Lots of people travel to visit families around the holidays. But if you’re gone, who is watching your home and belongings? If you have FrontPoint’s Interactive Monitoring, you are.
Customize your security settings online to get a text or e-mail any time something happens inside your home, such as a motion sensor activating in the living room. You can even add wireless cameras to literally keep an eye out. Ask Aunt Mary if you can borrow her computer and check to see what’s going on at the click of a mouse.
Another reason home burglaries increase during the holidays is the influx of expensive presents all left in one place: under the tree. Burglars prey on homes where the families are away or their home security systems are in place but inferior.
An inferior home security system may be one that relies on your home telephone line. Outside telephone cables that run down the side of your home can be cut by a burglar in five seconds with a pair of wire cutters.
WHAT EQUIPMENT YOU NEED
Don’t forget monitored environmental sensors. Here are some classic staples of the holiday season that could lead to dangerous situations but can be avoided with the help of FrontPoint:
When cooking for a couple dozen people, you’re bound to forget something. Hopefully it’s not the turkey in the oven that could lead to a fire. Energy costs will likely increase with elaborate outdoor displays and lights on the tree, but be careful of hot lights on the dry tree and the risk for fire. Freezing temperatures are great for a white Christmas but can also lead to frozen pipes and flooding.
Equip your home with an arsenal of smoke and heat sensors, freeze sensors and water sensors to protect against any environmental incidents.
From everyone at FrontPoint Security, best wishes for a safe and secure holiday season.
