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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
