• Never attempt to disassemble the unit or clean inside. This action will
void your warranty.
11. GOOD SAFETY HABITS
DEVELOP AND PRACTICE A PLAN OF ESCAPE
Prepare and practice a home escape plan twice a year, including drills at night.
Know two ways out of every room (door & window) and identify a meeting
place outside the home where everyone will gather once they have exited
the residence. When two people have reached the meeting place, one should
leave to call 911 while the second person stays to account for additional fam-
ily members. Establish a rule that once you’re out, you never reenter under any
circumstance!
• Make a floor plan indicating all doors and windows and at least two (2)
escape routes from each room. Second story windows may need a rope or
chain ladder.
• Have a family meeting and discuss your escape plan, showing everyone what
to do in case of fire and where to meet after they leave the house.
• Ensure that small children hear the alarm and wake when it sounds. They
must wake up in order to execute the escape plan. Practice allows all occu-
pants to test your plan before an emergency. You may not be able to reach
your children. It is important they know what to do.
• Familiarize everyone with the sound of the smoke alarm and train them to
leave your home when they hear it.
• Current studies have shown smoke alarms may not awaken all sleeping indi-
viduals, and that it is the responsibility of individuals in the household that
are capable of assisting others to provide assistance to those who may not be
awakened by the alarm sound, or to those who may be incapable of safely
evacuating the area unassisted.
• Install and maintain fire extinguishers on every level of the home and in the
kitchen, basement and garage. Know how to use a fire extinguisher prior to
an emergency.
FIRE PREVENTION
Never smoke in bed, or leave cooking food unattended. Teach children never
to play with matches or lighters! Train everyone in the home to recognize the
alarm pattern and to leave the home using their escape plan when it’s heard.
Know how to do “Stop, Drop and Roll” if clothes catch on fire, and how to
crawl low under smoke. Install and maintain fire extinguishers on every level of
the home and in the kitchen, basement and garage.
NFPA (NATIONAL FIRE PREVENTION ASSOCITATION)
For your information, the National Fire Protection Association’s Standard 72,
reads as follows:
Smoke Detection. Where required by applicable laws, codes, or standards for
the specified occupancy, approved single and multiple-station smoke alarms
shall be installed as follows:
(1) In all sleeping rooms. (2) Outside of each separate sleeping area, in imme-
diate vicinity of the sleeping rooms. (3) On each level of the dwelling unit,
including basements Exception: In existing one- and two-family dwelling units,
approved smoke alarms powered by batteries are permitted.
SMOKE DETECTION – ARE MORE SMOKE ALARMS DESIRABLE?
The required number of smoke alarms might not provide reliable early warning
protection for those areas separated by a door from the areas protected by
the required smoke alarms. For this reason, it is recommended that the house-
holder consider the use of additional smoke alarms for those areas for increased
protection. The additional areas include the basement, bedrooms, dining room,
furnace room, utility room, and hallways not protected by the required smoke
alarms. The installation of smoke alarms in attics (finished or unfinished),
garages, or within 6’ of a heating or cooking appliance is not normally recom-
mended, as these locations occasionally experience conditions that can result in
improper operation.
CALIFORNIA STATE FIRE MARSHALL
Early warning fire detection is best achieved by the installation of fire detection
equipment in all rooms and areas of the household as follows: A smoke alarm
installed in each separate sleeping area (in the vicinity, but outside the bed-
rooms), heat or smoke detectors in the living rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms,
kitchens, hallways, attics, furnace rooms, closets, utility and storage rooms,
basements and attached garages.
FCC
This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the
following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference,
and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference
that may cause undesired operation.
