According to BS 5839 part 6 (the code of practice for fire alarm systems in dwellings) around 80 percent of all UK fire deaths and injuries occur in homes. Nowhere is the risk greater than in Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs) where a fire in one dwelling can quickly spread to another.

Providing reliable and fully monitored fire detection, alarm and silencing facilities inside each individual apartment, C-TEC's Hush Button solution puts the resident firmly in control of their own fire detection system. Basically the Hush Button functions as a miniature fire alarm. The resident can silence a false alarm themselves (for example should they set the alarm off accidentally by burning a meal) thus preventing false alarms, full-scale evacuations and the likelihood of a true alarm condition being ignored.

Says C-TEC's MD, Andrew Foster: "Now C-TEC's Hush Button is compatible with Apollo XP95 and Hochiki ESP - the fire alarm industry's leading analogue open protocols. I am certain it will become a great seller. Indeed I have no doubt that Hush Buttons will be fitted as standard in many Houses of Multiple Occupation in the not too distant future such are the benefits they offer the occupant."