When tragedies related to fire occur, these usually translate to furniture lost forever, properties damaged badly, and loved ones wounded or worse-dead. And when these things do happen, people find it difficult to recover both emotionally, physically and most of all financially-especially if their valuable belongings have been burned badly to an unrecoverable state. When objects get damaged or in extreme cases get totally destroyed especially by fire, they obviously lose their value. They can no longer be sellable nor will they hold any significant value at all. Worse is if it's expensive jewelry, money or very important documents that gets caught up in the fire. This is why it is advisable to have a sentry fire safe where you would keep your most valuable items to protect them from the risks of total destruction.
When fires occur, the main priority in any establishment-may it be a house, office or a building-is for everyone to vacate the vicinity. Therefore, it goes to show that as lives are given precedence, everything else is placed at the risk of burning. This means that important documents such as contracts, legal files, birth certificates, house deeds, wills, and other priceless papers will be left to turn to ashes at these times of unfortunate events. Once these are gone, they're gone for good. And if you're keeping a lot of excess cash somewhere in the building too, then the same fate falls on that one, too. It is for this reason that having a sentry fire safe in which you can store these more or less irreplaceable is going to be a very wise move. It will prevent your valuable items from being put at such great risk.
Fire safes have various shapes, sizes, features and designs. Some are sized just enough to house small, palm-sized items such as cellular phones, diskettes, and PDAs. Others are designed to especially store files, portfolios, binders and documents like an index card holder. There are also the kinds specifically made for the storage of various data media, such as the more advanced kind of safe that has a USB connector and can back up a portable hard drive without removing it from the chest. There's also the kind that's designed like a volt or a refrigerator that can survive impacts as strong as dropping the chest 30 feet above the ground.
These fire safes protect your items from being harmed by water, smoke, eruptions, impacts, fire and heat. Depending on the model, a sentry fire safe can protect your valuables from fire up to 926 degrees Fahrenheit and up to an hour and sometimes even more of heat exposure. This high level of protection is ideal for legal documents which you cannot afford to get damaged in any way.
There is more than one kind of sentry fire safe. Their function, design, capacity and functionality depend on the model. But generally, they are a perfect investment for the home or office to keep your valuables safe at all times. Not only do they provide protection from various elements and external forces, but because they also have locks they are guarded from the risks of theft as well, making them multi-purpose in a certain sense.