JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - 1...2...3...4...5...6.  As fast as it took for you to count to 6, a burglar can break into your garage.We were stunned by the video we found on YouTube showing how quickly someone armed only with a wire hanger can maneuver the wire through the door and hook the emergency release lever on the other side.Garage doors have levers that allow them to be opened manually in case power is lost. Burglars, standing outside your garage, have figured out a way to use the hanger to pull down the release or to hook the red string that dangles from the lever.  Once it is released, the garage door can be opened by hand from the outside.Sgt. Shannon Hartley with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office says residential burglaries are a problem here in Jacksonville.  He says there is no way of knowing how many of them involve the wire method, but says in the last 12 months there have been 142 burglaries, during which the crook entered through a garage door or a front porch. "We see very creative ways to commit crimes and new ways to commit crimes all the time," said Hartley.There are a few businesses that sell garage locking systems that prevent these kind of break-ins.  

We talked with the creator of the Elocksys Garage Door Lock.  He recorded the video of how quickly a burglar can break into a garage door. He says people need to know how fast it can happen so they can protect themselves.  The garage door lock system he sells allows a homeowner to deadbolt their garage via remote each time they leave the house.  It costs about $250. We found an inexpensive way to prevent this type of break-in.  You can use a zip tie to fasten the emergency release lever to the garage door track to prevent it from being pulled open.  A package of zip ties costs about $5 at the hardware store.Other suggests to protect your garage:Sgt. Catherine Payne with the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office tells us burglars will often look for garage door openers inside cars parked outside homes. They will break into the cars to get the openers knowing few people remember to lock the door that leads from the garage into their house.  This gives burglars easy access to your valuables. 

Her suggestion is to always lock this door. Another tip, JSO Sgt. Hartley says when he worked in burglary, he was able to return many more stolen items if the victim had given him the serial number of the items that were stolen or if they had left a distinguishing mark on the item. He suggests you take the time to write these numbers down and keep them in a safe place, just in case.oak internal doors suffolkThis material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.upvc door lock changeNow that French and German officials have said the Germanwings co-pilot on flight 4U9525 deliberately crashed the plane, cockpit safety procedures that allowed the co-pilot to lock the captain out are being called into question.sliding door lock toronto

On Tuesday, an Airbus A320 flying from Barcelona, Spain, to Düsseldorf, Germany crashed into the French alps, killing all 150 people on board. A cockpit voice recording from the plane reveals that the co-pilot, who was alone in the cockpit as the plane plummeted into the French alps, could be heard breathing until the plane crashed, killing all 150 people on board. swing up garage door bottom sealThe co-pilot, identified as 28-year-old German national Andreas Lubitz, didn’t say a word while he was locked inside the cockpit.hotel door lock setup German officials said at a press conference Thursday that the co-pilot prevented the captain from reentering the cockpit.door knockers australia only

“It’s obvious this co-pilot took advantage of the commander’s absence,” Marseille public prosecutor Brice Robin said. “Could he have known he would leave? It is too early to say.” While US regulations require a flight attendant to go into the cockpit when a pilot is left alone, there is no such requirement in Europe.andersen gliding door latch parts There are also some new mechanisms in place on planes that allow a pilot to lock the cockpit from the inside. New safety regulations were put into place around the world after 9/11 to reinforce cockpit doors and increase security on planes. The Wall Street Journal noted in 2001 that this could come with its own set of problems. Pilots (and, presumably, flight crew members) used to be able to break through cockpit doors if necessary, but newer, reinforced cockpit doors prevent that. The cockpit voice recorder on flight 9525 revealed that the captain of the plane tried to break into the cockpit with no success.

An Airbus video shows the mechanisms the planes have to reinforce their cockpits. It’s not clear what the exact system was on the Germanwings Airbus plane, as regulations vary by country. But it seems apparent that the co-pilot was able to lock out the pilot. “The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer,” Aasenior French military official with knowledge of a cockpit voice recording from the plane told The New York Times on Wednesday. “And then he hits the door stronger and no answer. There is never an answer. You can hear he is trying to smash the door down.” The official added: “We don’t know yet the reason why one of the guys went out,” the official told the Times. “But what is sure is that at the very end of the flight, the other pilot is alone and does not open the door.” Lubitz had little professional flight experience, having only logged 630 flight hours before co-piloting the doomed flight 9525. He joined Germanwings in September 2013 after training at the Lufthansa Flight Training School in Bremen, according to Lufthansa officials.