What To Do When The Alarm Sounds!
•Go to your predetermined meeting place. When two people have arrived one should leave to call 911 from a neighbor’s home, and the other should stay to perform a head count.
•Do not reenter under any circumstance until fire officials give the go ahead.
•There are situations where a smoke alarm may not be effective to protect against fire as noted by the NFPA and UL. For instance:
-Smoking in bed.
-Leaving children unsupervised.
-Cleaning with flammable liquids, such as gaso- line.
-Fires where the victim is intimate with a flaming initiated fire; for example, when a person's clothes catch fire while cooking.
-Fires where the smoke is prevented from reach- ing the detector due to a closed door or other obstruction.
-Incendiary fires where the fire grows so rapidly that an occupant's egress is blocked even with properly located detectors.