Fire Safe, A Fire-Resistant Security Safe To Proctect Your Valuables

by Georgina Stocks

(WireNews+Co) - London, England - 07 April 2011

It is not difficult for a fire to break out. Most houses have a high degree of wood in their composition as well as wooden furniture. Add to that curtain, wall paper and a long list of flammable items left around the house. This is not only the case for households. Corporate offices, institutes and even hospitals are highly vulnerable to a fire break out. Just in the case fire safes have not been used, all documents, legal papers would be reduced to ashes!

Fire safes (http://www.thesafeshop.co.uk/) are security safes that are fire-resistant and hence will not be charred. The fire safe can usually withstand fire for a period of time ranging from 30 to 120 minutes. The valuable stored in it will remain unharmed for that period of time in the case of fire. Some fire safes are additionally water-proof and can resist water after being submerged for up to 24 hours.

There are safes for data, documents and electronic media. These fire safes usually have an option of three different type of lock systems; bio metric, dual lock and key lock. Colors available are generally shades of grey and black with capacities up to 99kg. Fire safes are also available in three different designs; fire cupboards, fire chests and simple fire safes.

Each fire safe is specialized for the category of valuables it is designed to protect. The fire safes for paper documents are designed to hold paper documents. It usually has no compartments or just one partition. These safes can accommodate cash and paper documents like property papers etc. These fire safes have different ranges of fire durability as well as capacity ranges of up to 500litres. Fire chests for paper documents follow all the same criteria except these are top loading and close like boxes.

Fire safes for digital media are specialized safes that are designed to protect digital media above all other valuables. Digital media like disks, hard disks, USBs etc are vital for many businesses and corporates. These can be kept in the fire safe to be kept securely and to be kept safe from possible fire hazards. Such fire safes usually come equipped with partitions to accommodate the CDs and other media storing devices. Some even have accessories like direct USB connection through the safe to PC and MAC computers. Data fire safes are built for the security of data tapes as well as computer disks.