What To Do When The Alarm Sounds!
crawl low under the smoke where the air is clearer.
•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
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