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Allied Fire & Security is a family owned, regional business with headquarters in Spokane, WA and branches in Portland, OR and Renton, WA. Allied has served Northwest home and business owners since 1948. As a family-owned and operated business, we have particular insights into what works for home owners and small businesses owners across the Pacific Northwest.

Allied installs and services security, life safety and communications systems in homes, businesses, financial institutions, schools, healthcare facilities and in many other industries. We’ve been doing it, and doing it well (ask around, we’re the best in the biz!) for 55 years! You can’t be around for that long (and with many happy customers) without getting something right. We like to think that that “something” is our commitment to our customers, our commitment to helping to ensure the peace of mind of our customers while protecting their home and offices, and doing it all better than anyone else.

Our success depends on your satisfaction. We know that it takes more than selling security equipment to be successful in this business. The secret to our success is each member of our Allied Fire & Security team focusing on you, our valued customer, every day.

Our Mission

“To ensure peace of mind for our customers and exceed their security expectations.”

Our Commitment to You

“To provide the best total security solutions to our customers.”

Our Vision

“We are committed to be the Northwest’s premier security products and services company.”

Are you new to the Pacific Northwest and in the market for a new security system? We are the leading home and office security firm in Washington and Oregon serving the Portland, Seattle, and Spokane communities. See below for the list of local communities and towns served by Allied. If your town is not listed, you are in Allied’s limited coverage area. Contact your nearest branch for more information on service in limited coverage areas.

We’ve developed long-standing relationships with financial institutions and commercial businesses in the limited coverage area. If we can’t help you ourselves, we will recommend you to a security firm who can!

Saturday Night Live is known for being brash and irreverent—this skit is no different (so make sure you’re in a good humor when watching!). It’s so true, though, about the exaggerations made by some of those cheesy home security commercials. J

You asked, we answered! Here are the most frequently asked questions to help you with your current Allied Fire and Security plan or when making a decision about starting a new home or office security plan with us!

How do I contact Allied?

Call or visit any of our three branches. You can also use our online contact form accessible by clicking on “Contact Us” in the red bar at the top of every page on our site. Click here for our branch contact information.

How do I schedule service?

To schedule service, contact your nearest Allied branch. Or, click here to schedule service online. If you need emergency or same-day service, please call your local branch, rather than using our online schedule service form.

Why isn’t my industry listed?

Allied strives to serve all industries to the best of its ability. If your particular industry isn’t listed, give us a call. We’ll be a great fit to meet your life safety and security needs, no matter what your business entails.

What products & services do you provide?

Allied is committed to giving you total integrated protection. We provide solutions for life safety/fire alarms, security systems, video surveillance, access control, mass communications, locksmithing, safes and vaults, and much more.

Call your nearest branch to have a personal survey of your home or business done by an Allied professional. You can read more about the solutions we provide in the main menus above, or click here to learn more about how Allied’s services set us apart from the competition.

Does Allied provide security guard services?

No, Allied does not provide security guard services, but we do contract security guard services through several industry partners. If you require security guard services, we are happy to recommend one of our industry partners in your area, or get you signed up for Private Guard Response in the event of an alarm at your home or business. Click here to contact us online.

Allied does not have security guard positions available. Allied conducts criminal background and drug checks through BSI.

Imagine it is pouring rain and run from your car to your front door. You’re huddled under your umbrella and you reach into your purse to pull out your keys only to discover that they aren’t there! What do you do? Call your neighbor who has a spare key? Oh no! They’re out of town this weekend, aren’t they? Break a window and crawl through to get inside? That’s an expensive and messy way in. Mess with the locks and hope they come unlocked. That won’t work! You went all out on the high security locks. So what do you do?

Call Allied Fire and Security! Our locksmith services include a complete line of residential door and hardware locks.  Day or Night (24 hours per day to be exact!) and we’ll be there to help with your lockout and re-keying.

What can we do for you?

• Master key systems
• Deadbolts
• Door Knobs
• Locksets
• High security key control systems (such as Medeco)
• Padlocks
• Cabinet locks
• 24 hour lockout service
• Re-keying
• Safe combination changes
• Safe lock openings

Next time you’re locked out, don’t freak out, just give us a ring. What a solution! (and if you aren’t like me, always losing your keys, but are still interested in getting your home or office re-keyed, you can schedule service by calling us or by filling out this form online)

Just a little thought piece for all of you thinking about the best home security solutions for your home. Several telecom companies are now offering home security solutions. You are, of course, entitled to your own opinions but it seems a bit weird to me. A telecom company obviously doesn’t have home security at the forefront of their minds, not like we do at least. What do you think? Would you trust your home security to a major telecom business? Let us know in the comments!

If you are anything like me you probably have a massive pile of really important papers shoved into files and cabinets. I never know quite what needs to be kept and for how long. It becomes quite the chore when tax season rolls around and I need to sift through all these papers. I’m really worried that one day I’ll accidently throw out something really important thinking it is just another receipt. This has spurred me to figure out exactly what I need to keep and for how long and come up with some similar storage solutions. Here’s hoping this works and helps me out with my own security solution.

This was incredibly helpful to me for getting my “paper life” into order. If you are interested in learning more or reading the original article where all this came from, please check it out here.

Ever wonder what’s going on in your town or city? Well, if you live in Seattle, you can check out http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/ for all the latest activity with the Seattle Police Department. It’s a great way to stay involved with your town and really keep on top of al the crime reports. Tough I haven’t checked it out for additional cities I bet with some Googling you can find your city – even if you aren’t from Seattle.

If you are from Seattle, you can search by Precinct and see what arrests and activity have been taking place in your neighborhood.

By better understanding the type and location of crime, you will be better able to anticipate the type of home security systems that will keep your home and business safe. We can help you with all sorts of your security needs:

c   Home security alarms

c   Fire alarms

c   24 hour alarm monitoring

c   Carbon Monoxide detection

c   Digital video surveillance

c   Automatic water detection and shut off

c   Environmental monitoring

c   Intercom systems

c   Safes, vaults, and depositories,

c   Locksmith services

If you are interested, we’d love to talk to you about all our great security solutions for you! Give us a call today!

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As much as you can do to prepare your home from robbers or other criminals, we all depend on our local police departments to keep criminals off the street. Have you had a really great experience with a local PC officer? We’d love to hear about it.

At Allied Fire and Security we specialize in getting your home and business set up with the best security possible. We know that there are many MANY different businesses out there and that those businesses all have different security needs. For example, financial institutions have very specialized needs as they often have very important and secure information about their clients such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers and whatnot. Financial institutions require media storage solutions but they don’t often have much in the way of cash on hand. Contrast this to a retail business which deals in large amounts of cash daily, strangers coming in and out of a business all day long, and many (often part time) employees. As you can see, the needs of these different businesses are largely different and so we think that the security and safety set ups ought to be as different as well.

Business security is an increasingly important focus of business owners and executives everywhere. Criminal activity in the workplace continues to cost businesses, institutions and agencies millions of dollars each year. Even more important are the injuries, traumas and deaths that occur because of these criminals.

In the realm of business, we have specialized business solutions for your retail business, your healthcare business, your financial security institution, your industrial and commercial businesses, the safety and security of your education center and higher education centers, the security of your hospital, security of government buildings, and enterprise solution group security.

Our job is to help you prevent and react to criminal activity in your workplace. From locks and safes, to electronic security, we will assist you with all facets of your security needs, saving you time and money.

Call or visit one of Allied’s three Northwest branches to schedule a survey of your business’ security needs.

Contact a representative for a FREE business security estimate.