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Floor Safes Provide Excellent Hidden Protection

June 13th, 2012

We have a wide variety of safes available in our online store. Whether you need a safe for traveling, home or business use, we carry the type of safe you need. If you intend on hiding and concealing your safe, then we recommend looking into purchasing a floor safe. Floor safes provide excellent hidden protection from theft and burglary. Keep intruders and robbers guessing, as your safe is hidden from sight.

Just like wall safes, floor safes are installed into the floor rather than in your wall. The advantage of having a floor safe installed into the floor rather than the wall is that your safe has an extra barrier of protection and is more difficult to remove. Instead of being installed in wall where it’s only protected by mostly dry wall, floor safes are usually installed into a concrete floor. That means the safe is protected by a solid concrete barrier as well as having a solid steel frame. This makes it difficult for any thief from cracking the safe open through any side of the safe. Plus the ability to conceal the safe makes it almost impossible for any intruder to find.

That’s one of the main reasons why people choose to purchase a floor safe. They don’t intend on moving the safe very often and most prefer to keep it in one place. The most common places some people leave their safe is in their bedroom, office, basement, attic or garage. The only problem with keeping your safe there is that it’s visible and is where most burglars and thieves look. The first place a thief will look is in the master bedroom, raiding inside your closet. Although most thieves won’t dare to crack open a safe while inside your home, they’ll do the next best thing, try to take it with them. Most thieves will do anything they can to get inside, so they’ll steal the whole safe and bring it back home, where they’ll have more time to crack it open without being caught. That’s one of the main advantages to having a floor safe. A thief isn’t able to steal your floor safe, and that’s if they find it first.

Other great advantages to having a floor safe is that it provides excellent fire protection. In case of a fire emergency such as wildfires, cooking or electrical accidents, your safe will stay intact mainly because it’s surrounded by concrete, but is also inside of the floor where it’s less exposed to high temperatures or contact with fire. Not only are they resistant to fires, but other natural disasters such as floods, tornadoes and hurricanes. Some floor safes do provide a waterproof dust cover to prevent any moisture or water from seeping through the door of the safe. But most of the time, with anything that is installed within the floor, you always want to protect your valuables from moisture to prevent rust, corrosion or mildew. That’s why also protecting any of your valuables with a waterproof container or a dehumidifier would be ideal inside your floor safe.

The most common items to put into a floor safe are jewelry, cash, documents, handguns, photos and small collectibles. Larger items such as shotguns, paintings or trophies may need a larger safe. The floor safe is perfect for anyone that wants to secure extra cash, gold, gems, necklaces, precious metals and other rare items because they’re compact enough to fit into a floor safe as well as keeping it away from thieves. Keeping handguns and small weapons such as knives are also recommended to prevent any accidents and children from accessing them. It keeps your weapons hidden from any intruders and thieves, as well as keeping you and your family safe.

A floor safe can be a great commodity for either your home or business. It’s inexpensive and affordable, yet provides the great quality you’ve come to expect. Although installation into a concrete floor can take some time and effort, when properly installed, you’ll finally have the peace of mind you deserve. Most floor safes come with a U.L. Listed Group II combination lock, with over 1 million possible combinations. They also feature locking bolts that prevent the door from being opened through forced entry. As with all our safes, it’s constructed from heavy-duty steel, providing durability and strength to last a lifetime.

AmVaultX6 High Security Safes Now Available On SecurityBase.com!

April 26th, 2012

Need the ultimate protection in high security storage? Well look no further because we now have AMSEC’s new and heavyweight high security composite safes in stock and available on our online store! Just like the rest of AMSEC’s safes, they are manufactured and built in the United States. They have also been tested for quality assurance passing the Underwriter’s Laboratories standard procedures. These safes may cost you a pretty penny, but in the long run, if you need the absolute best and a heavy-duty safe, then it doesn’t get closer than this. Here are some of the specifications and features that this safe has to offer.

The AmVaultX6 is constructed with a three-inch defense barrier of inner and outer steel plates. In addition to it’s thick and dense barrier it is enclosed with interlocking heavy-duty steel. Inside is high strength concrete that surpasses 12,000 PSI and a high-density high-strength ceramic matrix. Not only is the defense barrier made out of concrete to insure protection against manipulative attacks, but is also constructed of high density insulating materials for two hours of certified and approved fire protection. The superior design and craftsmanship of the new AmVaultX6 is impermeable to burglary attacks by the most sophisticated equipment used today and against extreme fires.

There are five different models of the AmVaultX6. Each model contains the same specifications and features such as 6” door thickness and 3” body thickness, but differ in exterior and interior dimensions, weight, and interior capacity. The smallest of the five is the CFX252016 AmVaultX6 safe. It has a height of 31 inches, width of 26 inches and a depth of 25.25 inches. Even as the smallest safe in its series, it still weighs in at 1,433 pounds. Here’s a glimpse at the models and their specifications:

Model: CFX352020

Exterior Dimensions (H” x W” x D”): 41” x 26” 29.25”

Interior Capacity: 8.1 Cubic Feet

Weight: 1,946 lbs.

Model: CFX452020

Exterior Dimensions: 51” x 26” x 29.25”

Interior Capacity: 10.4 Cubic Feet

Weight: 2,343 lbs.

Model: CFX584820

Exterior Dimensions: 64” x 34” 29.25”

Interior Capacity: 18.8 Cubic Feet

Weight: 3,418 lbs.

Model: CFX703620

Exterior Dimensions: 76” x 42” x 29.25”

Interior Capacity: 29.2 Cubic Feet

Weight: 4,578 lbs.

Here are some other details about the AmVaultX6 High Security Safes:

  • Feature a two-hour 350°F factory fire rating and tested at temperatures of up to 1850°F. The ability to withstand against fires for two hours offer far more protection than most safes. Some safes only offer 30-minutes to an hour of fire protection.
  • The locking mechanism is equipped with six to ten massive 1.5” diameter chrome plated, solid steel locking bolts. Each bolt is then inserted in between the body’s protected exterior and their respective bolt chambers. Most safes offer the standard 1” diameter bolts, but these bolts are far larger for extra security.

As you can see, the AMSEC AmVaultX6 is AMSEC’s most impenetrable high security safe to date. It offers ultimate security against theft and robbery on all six sides of the safe and comes in 5 different sizes. If you’re looking for the finest in burglary and fire protection for all your personal belongings, then this is definitely a safe that will get the job done.

If you carry expensive jewelry, extremely rare paraphernalia, large amounts of cash, gold, collectibles, photos, family deeds, insurance, social security information, classified documents, sensitive records and other irreplaceable items, then you’ll need the cream of the crop. This is definitely the recommended choice!

Inside Job Leads to Stolen Treasure Consists of Ancient Artifacts

March 19th, 2012

This particular theft is just like the “Ocean’s Eleven” movie, except it doesn’t take place in Las Vegas, but in Libya. A treasure that was stored inside two wooden chests was secured inside a bank vault. The treasure consisted of thousands of coins, jewelry and figurines, some dating back to 2600 years ago. Throughout the years it has stayed inside the bank, unmonitored even though it had significant historical and financial value.  Then one day, at the opportune moment, it was stolen. It was stolen last winter when around the downtown bank, a popular uprising was happening. The thief was able to gain access into vault and because the treasure was left unattended, they were able to make off with it.

Interpol has been investigating, and other questions seem to arise like how they were able to steal the treasure. Most of them have come to agree on one thing, that the heist was an inside job. “I cannot say who did it,” said Ahmed Buzaian, an archaeology professor at Benghazi University, who was also part of the investigation. “But they knew exactly what was inside.”

The official story has similar traits as if some type of magician was able to pull off something you would see from the “Ocean’s Eleven” movie. In late March, only a month after rebels in Benghazi had removed the forces of Col Muammar Qaddafi and after the NATO began airstrikes in support of rebels, there was a group of thieves who broke into the National Commercial Bank of Benghazi, which was an adjacent building that provided housing for the secret police and whom protestors began to light on fire at the beginning of the revolution.

When they were inside the bank, said Osama El-Ketaf, the head of the bank’s legal office, they drilled directly into the vault, a little more than two feet into the steel-reinforced concrete. The hole, he said, was big enough for a skinny adult or a child. In the vault contained a collection of safes and chests, where the thieves used additional power tools to rip them apart.

Inside the safes and chests were about 8000 gold, silver and bronze coins including maybe 300 rings, necklaces, bracelets and medallions and other 40 or so bronze and ivory figurines.  These historical treasures were discovered over the first half of the last century in five Greco-Roman cities in northeastern Libya. It was taken and traveled during the Italian retreat of its former colony in World War II, then returned in 1961, where it was placed inside the vault.

“There was a large, old-fashioned safe and a normal-size safe,” El-Ketaf said. “They sawed through the hinges of one, maybe using a circular saw. We found an extension cord leading from the building next door to the hole. They cut through the back of the other safe.” Then finally transported the treasure up to the surface.

Over $500K Worth of Stolen Gems In Jewelry Store Heist

March 5th, 2012

Could you imagine a heist or criminal operation as critical as this? This is the type of scenario you see in movies. You could have never imagined this to happen in real life, but it did. That’s probably what frightens us the most, the fact that sometimes movies are never too far from becoming a reality.

The manager of Steve Quick Jeweler, Dana Sullivan, was surprised to what she saw when she arrived to work on Wednesday morning. Not your ordinary sighting at work, she discovered a large hole behind the store’s safe. As a jewelry business, they know to invest in a high security safe, but it didn’t matter in this case. The TL-30 Rated Safe weighed in at about two tons, almost impossible for any thief to remove it from it’s place without being caught.  These types of safes can also withstand attacks from professional thieves and experts for at least 30 minutes. However, the thieves were able to find a weak spot.

Sullivan says, “Everything was fine until I opened the door and saw there was dust everywhere. I thought the ceiling had fallen in. I couldn’t figure out what was happening. I looked around the corner and saw the hole.” Steve Quick, the owner of the business for 25 years, believes it could have been an inside job. “They knew what they were doing and what’s got us spooked is that they circumvented our security system, which is state of the art, or they had some sort of information,” Quick said.

The thieves began their operation on Tuesday evening where they raided a sushi restaurant located right next door. From there, they were able to break down through the wall at the same location, where they could finally reach the safe. The safe was located in the back inside a small office, which is right next to Quick’s desk. “So they were able to stay under my desk, tunnel under, and if you go in back, you can see the hole in the bottom of the safe,” Quick said.

The burglars were able to remain undetected from surveillance because that was the only area not monitored by cameras or motion detectors. That issue was immediately resolved once they figured it out. Once they were able to cut into the bottom of the safe, they gained access to its bottom shelves. “And then these were some of the storage containers we used to keep the gems in, and they were able to crush these and pull them out through that small hole, all of them containing gems, there was a gem collection that we’ve been collecting for 25 years, so it’s a pretty devastating loss,” Quick said.

In light of the situation, Quick says that they are fully insured and that none of the jewelry stolen belonged to any of their customers. “Everything is accounted for, the only things that are missing belonged to us,” Quick said.

After a huge loss, the staff is now busy making sure to account for all the inventory of the merchandise. As disappointed and saddened Quick is, he says that it comes within the territory of being in the jewelry business. “We’ve had armed robberies, we do everything we can, we take security very seriously, but there are people out there, and once in a while they succeed,” he said. The Chicago police have yet to make any arrests in this case.

Source: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-02-10/news/chi-500k-of-jewelry-stolen-in-lincoln-park-heist-20120210_1_burglars-jewelry-business-gems

Safe Sales Still Going Strong Amidst Recession

January 24th, 2012

It’s been quite awhile since our last news post. We’ve been busy revamping the website and making it easier for you to find what you need. If you need help navigating through our main homepage, please check out our post below. It’s a step-by-step tutorial on the key features and how to better search for what you’re looking for.

Safe sales are still striving among the recession in this country. Finding a job is still hard to come by and many people are struggling to make a decent living. It’s no wonder why there are still high rates of theft and burglary happening all over the nation. As we draw closer to the Presidential election this year, people are looking towards the future, hoping we can progress and improve the state of the economy. Many people want to see more jobs and a boost in sales for businesses. Until then, many people are taking things into their own hands and protecting their assets.

A theft that occurred almost two years ago reminded Saleem Hussain to always protect and secure your valuables, no matter where you are. His Tampa home was raided by thieves, which they stole a massive amount of his family’s jewelry brought from India. “When I came in, all the drawers were open, all the pouches were empty,” he said, “It was chaos, it was a big loss. It was almost $200,000 in jewelry; the insurance paid me, what, $25,000?”

Like many victims of theft, Saleem learned the hard way. “I didn’t have the safe, so that was the biggest mistake.” Now people are looking into purchasing a safe as a means to protect their valuables not only from theft, but also from fires. Companies from all over the nation are seeing a rise in sales and record profits regardless of the poor economy. An owner that sells safes in Tampa, Ed Jurewicz (Action Lock and Safe), explains “this year, we’ve doubled in sales.” He has been in the safe business for almost 40 years.

MESA MFS80E U.L. Classified Safe - Class 350 - 1 Hour Fire Rating

As a safe and security company, it almost seems like a rising movement, people are more comfortable and confident in protecting their valuables themselves. They’re taking more out from the banks and taking their assets home. Jurewicz further adds that, “some of them are telling me they’re scared of the bank. They’re not sure if one day they’ll come to the bank and the bank will be closed, so there’s this uneasiness that’s going on here in Tampa.”

He also recommends buying quality heavy-duty safes that is heavy in weight and comes with a high quality secure lock. He opposes people buying cheap small safes, and we couldn’t agree more. “That is probably the worst thing you can do because it becomes a target, it becomes a place where when the thief runs through the house, they go right for the master bedroom closet and they see the safe, they pick it up and run,” he says. You can even keep your old safe or a cheap safe to be used as a decoy.

Some safes have the ability to stay hidden and concealed from intruders.  Hidden safes can store and keep your valuables safe in the convenience of your home, keeping your family assets safe from theft. Check out the video and interview with the theft victim below.

Source: http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/consumer/safe-sales-surge-012312

 

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