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Decide on a meeting place a safe distance from your house and make sure
that all your children understand that they should go and wait for you if
there is a fire.
Hold fire drills at least every 6 months to make sure that everyone, even
small children, know what to do to escape safely.
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.
WHAT THIS SMOKE ALARM CAN DO
This alarm is designed to sense smoke entering its sensing chamber. It does
not sense gas, heat (except for 913T), 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
alarm monitors the air and, when it senses smoke, activates its built-in alarm
horn. 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 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 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 ALARMS TO ALERT
THE RESIDENTS OF THAT UNIT. ALARMS DESIGNED TO BE
INTERCONNECTED SHOULD BE INTERCONNECTED WITHIN ONE FAMILY
RESIDENCE ONLY; OTHERWISE, NUISANCE ALARMS WILL OCCUR WHEN
AN ALARM IN ANOTHER LIVING UNIT IS TESTED.
NOTICE: WHAT SMOKE ALARMS CANNOT DO
Smoke alarms will not work without power. Battery-operated units will not
work without batteries, with dead batteries, or if the batteries are not installed
properly. AC powered smoke alarms will not work if their AC power supply is cut
off by an electrical fire, an open fuse or circuit breaker, or for any other reason.
If you are concerned about the reliability of either the batteries or your AC power
supply for any of the above reasons, you should install both battery and AC
powered smoke alarms for maximum safety.
Smoke alarms may not sense fire that starts where smoke cannot reach the
alarms 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, units should be placed on every level of a residence or
building.
The horn in your smoke alarm meets or exceeds current audibility requirements of
ANSI/UL 217. However, if the smoke alarm is located outside a bedroom, it may
not wake up a sound sleeper, especially if the bedroom door is closed or only partly
open. If the unit is located on a different level of the residence than the bedroom, it is
even less likely to awaken people sleeping in the bedroom. In such cases, the
National Fire Protection Association recommends that 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 employing a systematic
approach by interconnecting smoke alarms together, or by using radio frequency trans-
mitters and receivers.
All types of smoke alarm sensors have limitations. No type of smoke alarm can
sense every kind of fire every time. These types of fires include:
1) Fires where the victim is intimate with a flaming initiated fire; for example,
when a person's clothes catch on fire while cooking.
2) Fires where the smoke is prevented from reaching the smoke alarm due to a
closed door or other obstruction.
3) Incendiary fires where the fire grows so rapidly that an occupant's egress is
blocked even with properly located smoke alarms.
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. Home owners and renters should
continue to insure their lives and property.
PLACEMENT OF SMOKE ALARMS
THIS EQUIPMENT SHOULD BE INSTALLED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION'S STANDARD 72 (National Fire
Protection Association, Batterymarch Park, Quincy, MA 02269).
For your information, the National Fire Protection Association's Standard 72, reads
as follows:
NFPA 72, 2010 Edition, Chapter 29, Section 29.5.1.1 Where required by applicable
laws, codes or standards for a specific type of occupancy, approved single and multi-
ple-station smoke alarms shall be installed as follows:
29.5.1.1 Where required by applicable laws, codes or standards for a specific type of
occupancy, approved single and multiple-station smoke alarms shall be installed as
follows:
1) In all sleeping rooms and guest rooms
2) Outside of each separate dwelling unit sleeping area, within 6.4m (21ft) of any door
to a sleeping room, the distance measured along a path of travel
3) On every level of a dwelling unit, including basements
4) On every level of a residential board and care occupancy (small facility),including
basements and excluding crawl spaces and unfinished attics
5) In the living area(s) of a guest suite
6) In the living area(s) of a residential board and care occupancy (small facility)
29.5.1.2 Where the area addressed in 29.5.1.1(2) is separated from the adjacent living
areas by a door, a smoke alarm shall be installed in the area between the door and the
sleeping room, and additional alarms shall be installed on the living area side of the
door as specified by 29.5.1.1 and 29.5.1.3.
29.5.1.3 In addition to the requirements of 29.5.1.1(1) through 29.5.1.1(3), where the
interior floor area for a given level of a dwelling unit, excluding garage areas, is greater
than 93m
(1000ft
), smoke alarms shall be installed per
2
2
29.5.1.3.1 and 29.5.1.3.2.
550-0033
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