Know where to go to call the fire department from outside your
residence.
Provide emergency equipment such as fire extinguishers and
teach your family to use this equipment properly.
d. Bedroom doors should be closed while sleeping if a smoke
alarm is installed in the bedroom.
They act as a barrier against
heat and smoke.
WHAT TO DO IF THERE IS A FIRE IN YOUR
HOME
If you have prepared family escape plans and practiced them
with your family, you have increased their chances of escaping
safely. Review the following rules with your children when you have
fire drills so everyone will remember them in a real fire emergency.
If the alarm should sound:
a. Don't panic; stay calm. Your safe escape may depend on
thinking clearly and remembering what you have practiced.
b. Get out of the house following a planned escape route as quickly
as possible. Do not stop to collect anything or to get dressed.
c. Open doors carefully only after feeling to see if they are hot. Do
not open a door if it is hot; use an alternate escape route.
d. Stay close to the floor; smoke and hot gases rise.
e. Cover your nose and mouth with a cloth, wet if possible, and take
short, shallow breaths.
f. Keep doors and windows closed unless you open them to
escape.
g. Meet at your prearranged meeting place after leaving the house.
h. Call the Fire Department as soon as possible from outside your
house. Give the address and your name.
i. Never re-enter a burning building.
Contact your local Fire Department for more information on making
your home safer from fires and about preparing your family's escape
plans.
NOTICE:
Current studies have shown smoke alarms may
not awaken all sleeping individuals, 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.
NOTICE:
Visual signals are only one method of alerting
the hearing impaired to a fire. The visual signal may not
awaken all hearing impaired individuals. The visual
signal must be in the line of sight of the individual to be
seen and effective.
Visual signal should NEVER be relied
upon as the primary fire alert for the hearing impaired
under these common sense conditions:
a. Sleeping face down on the bedding or pillow
b. Use of sleep medications of any kind
c. Use of alcoholic beverages or recreational drugs
d. Use of eye shades
e. If there are tendencies of deep sleep conditions
f. If a fire cuts power to AC circuits, the visual signal
will not operate
g. If person is not within line of sight of visual signal
Under these and other similar common situations an
alternate fire alert method such as a non-hearing
impaired attendant is needed. The visual signal only
increases the chance of being alerted to the presence of
fire. No system of this type can fully protect the hearing
impaired in case of fire.
WHAT THIS SMOKE ALARM CAN DO
This smoke alarm is designed to sense smoke entering its sens-
ing chamber. It does not sense gas, heat, or flames.
When properly located, installed, and maintained, this smoke
alarm is designed to provide early warning of developing fires at a
reasonable cost. This smoke alarm monitors the air and, when it
senses smoke, activates its built-in alarm horn and strobe light. It
can provide precious time for you and your family to escape from
your residence before a fire spreads. Such an early warning,
however, is possible only if the smoke alarm is located, installed, and
maintained as specified in this User's Manual.
NOTICE:
This smoke alarm is designed for use within single
residential living units only; that is, it should be used inside a single-
family home or one apartment of a multi-family building. In a multi-
family building, the smoke alarm may not provide early warning for
residents if it is placed outside of the residential units, such as on
outside porches, in corridors, lobbies, basements, or in other
apartments. In multi-family buildings, each residential unit should
have smoke alarms to alert the residents of that unit. Smoke alarms
designed to be interconnected should be interconnected within one
family residence only; otherwise, nuisance alarms will occur when a
smoke alarm in another living unit is tested.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
WHAT SMOKE ALARMS
CANNOT DO
Smoke alarms will not work without power.
A battery must be
connected to the smoke alarm to maintain proper device operation if
AC power supply is cut off by an electrical fire, open fuse or circuit
breaker, or for any other reason. In the event of AC power failure,
the battery will supply standby power for a minimum of 24 hours.
WARNING! Visual signal will not operate on battery power
alone.
Smoke alarms may not sense fire that starts where smoke
cannot reach the devices
such as in chimneys, in walls, on roofs,
or on the other side of closed doors. If bedroom doors are usually
closed at night, smoke alarms should be placed in each bedroom as
well as in the common hallway between them.
Smoke alarms also may not sense a fire on another level of
a residence or building.
For example, a second-floor smoke alarm
may not sense a first-floor or basement fire. Therefore,
smoke
alarms should be placed on every level of a residence or
building.
The horn and visual signal in your smoke alarm meets or
exceeds current audibility and visual requirements of Underwriters
Laboratories. However,
if the smoke alarm is located outside a
bedroom, the visual signal will not be seen or noticed by
occupant and piezo sounder will not wake up a sound sleeper,
especially if the bedroom door is closed or only partly open. If the
smoke alarm is located on a different level of the residence than the
bedroom, it is even less likely to wake up people sleeping in the
bedroom. In such cases, the National Fire Protection Association
recommends that the smoke alarms be interconnected so that a
device on any level of the residence will sound an alarm loud
enough to awaken sleepers in closed bedrooms. This can be done
by installing a fire-detection system, by connecting smoke alarms
together, or by using radio frequency transmitters and receivers.
All types of smoke alarm sensors have limitations. No type
of smoke alarm can sense every kind of fire every time. In
general, smoke alarms may not always warn you about fires
caused by violent explosions, escaping gas, improper storage
of flammable materials, or arson.
NOTICE:
This smoke alarm is not designed to replace special-
purpose fire detection and smoke alarm systems necessary to
protect persons and property in non-residential buildings such as
warehouses, or other large industrial or commercial buildings. It
alone is not a suitable substitute for complete fire-detection systems
designed to protect individuals in hotels and motels, dormitories,
hospitals, or other health and supervisory care and retirement
homes. Please refer to NFPA 101,The Life Safety Code, and NFPA
72 for smoke alarm requirements for fire protection in buildings not
defined as "households."
Installing smoke alarms may make you eligible for lower
insurance rates, but
smoke alarms are not a substitute for
insurance.
Visual signals are only one method of alerting the hearing
impaired to a fire. The visual signal may not awaken all hearing
impaired individuals. The visual signal must be in the line of sight of
the individual to be seen and effective. Home owners and renters
should continue to insure their lives and property.
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