According to the Home Office, 15,702 fires (48%) were caused by cooking appliances such as grills, ovens, and deep-fat fryers. A fire on an induction hob can start in just 1.5 to 2 minutes and a fire on a traditional electric hob within 6 minutes.

The Firechief Kitchen Stove Guard is suitable for use with all types of electric hobs.

In 2021, 44% of all fire-related fatalities in England were people 65 years old and over. The Firechief Kitchen Stove Guard can prevent these fire-related fatalities, as it includes two types of heat sensors which measure excessive temperatures, meaning it reacts to cooktop fire risk indicators earlier than other cooker safety devices and cuts off the cooker power supply before a fire develops.

The Firechief Kitchen Stove Guard is an unobtrusive fire prevention solution.  It is less than half the cost of a fire suppression system, can be easily installed by an electrical contractor and requires no annual maintenance.

The Firechief Kitchen Stove Guard has intelligent fire safety technology that provides continuous 24/7 protection. It monitors and adapts to the occupiers cooking style, while its automatic fault diagnosis constantly analyses the Stove Guard’s function when the hob is in use. An intelligent Heat Sensor Dislocation Alarm prevents cooker use if the Stove Guard’s sensor has been removed.

The Kitchen Stove Guard meets BS EN50615 Stove Guard standard requirements. It can be easily adapted to the needs of special user groups with sensory signals, such as vibrating pads and flashing beacons for the hearing or sight impaired or those with dementia.

In 2015 the European Commission’s European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation announced the new European stove guard Standard BS EN 50615. This was designed to help consumers identify effective cooking safety products.

To be compliant with BS EN 50615, a system must:

• Have the ability to disconnect the cooker (or hob) from the electricity supply before a fire starts
• Have the ability to cut off the cooker (or hob) electricity supply before the temperature reaches a dangerous level
• Ensure that the electricity cut-off is not triggered by a false alarm
• A series of tests must also be carried out, these include:
• Heating a prescribed volume of sunflower oil in a pan, with the burner/ring on its highest power setting
• Using other burners simultaneously to boil water to make the environment more complex and challenging
• Testing all burners one by one

The Firechief Kitchen Stove Guard meets all these requirements.

The Firechief Kitchen Stove Guard is ideal for student accommodation, either University or College rooms or private student houses; owners of high-rise buildings or luxury apartments, property management companies and long-term stay hotels and motels;  senior living accommodation such as sheltered housing or retirement apartments and assisted or independent living;  landlords of rental properties and holiday homes including AirBnB properties.

The elderly and people with memory disorders are especially vulnerable to fires and fire hazards. The fire-related fatality rate is higher for men and older people and in 2021, 44 per cent of all fire-related fatalities in England were aged 65 years and over.  The majority of fire-related fatalities in that same year also occurred in single occupancy dwellings.

The Firechief Kitchen Stove Guard provides an effective fire prevention solution to kitchen cooking fires and helps support the elderly and vulnerable with independent living.  It is an easy way to increase fire safety as it does not require any action on the part of the user.

Multiple residents in a building means more food being cooked and a higher risk of kitchen cooking fires.  The Firechief Kitchen Stove Guard helps keep the daily lives of all the residents in the building safer.