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SAFETY INFORMATION
WARNINGS
WARNINGS
Important:
Read this owner’s manual carefully and completely before trying to assemble, operate, or service this firebox.
Improper use of this firebox can cause serious injury or death from burns, fire, explosion, electrical shock, and carbon
monoxide poisoning.
Early signs of carbon monoxide poisoning resemble the
flu, with headaches, dizziness, and / or nausea. If you have
these signs, the heater may not be working properly.
Get
fresh air at once!
Turn off gas appliance. Have appliance
serviced. Some people (such as pregnant women, persons
with heart or lung disease, persons with anemia and those at
high altitudes) are more affected by carbon monoxide than
others. Make certain you read and understand all warnings.
1.
Use correct gas type for your appliance. Do not convert from one gas type to another.
2.
If this appliance is for use with Propane gas, do not place propane supply tank(s) inside any structure. Locate propane
supply tank(s) outdoors.
3.
If you smell gas:
– Shut off gas supply.
– Do not try to light any appliance.
– Do not touch any electrical switch; do not use any phone in your building.
– Immediately call your gas supplier from a neighbor’s phone. Follow the gas supplier’s instructions.
– If you cannot reach your gas supplier, call the fire department.
4.
Do not use this appliance for burning trash or cooking. Never place matches, paper, garbage, or any other material on
top of logs or logs into flame.
5.
Always operate appliance with front fireplace screens closed.
6.
Make sure any safety screen or guard removed for servicing is in place before running appliance.
7. Never run appliance in a small, closed room. Open the door into next room to help ventilate.
8.
If appliance shuts off, do not relight until you provide fresh outside air. If appliance keeps shutting off, have it serviced.
9. Do not run appliance:
– where flammable liquids or vapors are used or stored.
– under dusty conditions.
10. Surface of appliance becomes very hot when operating. Keep children and adults away from hot surface. Appliance will
remain hot for some time after shutdown. Allow surface to cool before touching.
11. Do not use this appliance if any part has been submerged under water. Immediately call a qualified technician to inspect
the appliance and to replace any part of the control system and gas control which has been under water.
12. The installation must conform with local codes or, in the absence of local codes, with the National Fuel Gas Code, ANSI
Z223.1.
13. Never install the appliance:
– in a bedroom, bathroom, mobile home, or recreational vehicle.
– where curtains, furniture, clothing, or other flammable objects are less than forty-two inches (42”) from the front
of the appliance.
– in high traffic areas.
– in windy or drafty areas.
14. Disconnect the appliance and its individual shut off valve from the gas supply piping system during any pressure testing
of that system at test pressures in excess of 1/2 psig, (3.5kPa).
DANGER
CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING
MAY LEAD TO DEATH!
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