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C. WHAT TO DO IF THERE IS A FIRE IN YOUR HOME:
After 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 smoke or fire emergency.
• Don't panic, stay calm. Your safe escape may depend on thinking clearly
and remembering what you have practiced.
• Get out of the house following your planned escape route as quickly
as possible. Do not stop to collect anything or to get dressed.
• 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.
• Stay close to the floor; smoke and hot gases rise toward the ceiling.
• Keep doors and windows closed unless you open them to escape and
close them as you leave.
• Meet at your pre-arranged meeting place after leaving the house.
• Call the Fire Brigade as soon as possible from outside your house.
Give the address and your name.
• Never re-enter a burning or smoke filled building.
Contact your local Fire Brigade for more information on making your
home safer from fires and about preparing your family's escape plans.
5. HOW TO INSTALL YOUR SMOKE ALARM:
AFTER HAVING CAREFULLY READ THE PREVIOUS SECTIONS OF
THIS MANUAL, YOU ARE READY TO INSTALL YOUR SMOKE
ALARM.
PLEASE FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS:
A. Place mounting bracket on ceiling
or wall in prearranged location and
use pencil to trace two opposing
hole positions for mounting screws.
Drill two 1.5mm holes. See Figure 4.
B. Use mounting screws provided for
attaching to studs or woodwork. For
plaster or plasterboard, you may
wish to use plastic anchors and
screws. In this case, drill two holes
using a 5mm drill bit in the centers
of the hole locations and insert
anchors into holes.
C. Screw mounting bracket to surface
securely.
D. Activate battery. Turn the unit over
and in the lower left push in the bat-
tery activation switch until it is flush
with the base. See Figure 5. Unit
may chirp or alarm temporarily when
activated.
E. Position the smoke alarm on the
mounting plate so that the slot on the
side of the alarm is to the left of the
locking tab on the mounting plate.
Turn alarm clockwise to lock into
place. See Figure 6.
F. You have now finished installing your
smoke alarm. For your safety, pro-
ceed with testing described in the
next section.
G.To remove the smoke alarm from the
mounting plate, insert a small screw-
driver into the slot in the mounting
plate. Depress locking tab with the
screwdriver and turn the smoke
alarm counter-clockwise to detach it
from the mounting plate.
To Interconnect Alarms:
To provide greater protection the Model
TPCI smoke alarms can be interconnected
so that multiple units will alert you to a
dangerous situation. This smoke alarm
may be interconnected with as many as
11 Firex Model TPCI smoke alarms (12
units maximum). Do not connect any other
type or model of smoke alarm.
Push the supplied terminal block onto the
pins in the base of the smoke alarm.
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FIGURE 4
Push Down Switch
to Activate
FIGURE 5
FIGURE 6
ELECTRICAL JUNCTION BOX OR PATTRESS
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CEILING
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