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CHAPTER 4 FIRE SAFETY
Detection

Checks

save lives

Make sure your smoke
alarm works properly:
•Change the battery
No matter how careful we are, every 12 months and
accidents do happen and we must be
prepared for them. vacuum around the
Being prepared for fire means being sensor every 6 months.
able to detect it at the earliest possible •Check the alarm is
moment so that we have a good working by pressing
chance of escaping unhurt. the test button
By encouraging your parents to fit smoke every week.
alarms in your home you can be sure you
will be warned of fire before it starts to take By following these
hold. Smoke alarms give an early warning of simple rules you will
smoke and fire which gives you sufficient greatly increase your
time to escape quickly. In this case the chances of escaping
danger that triggers the alarm is the smoke unhurt from a fire in
from the fire. your home.
Smoke alarms are quite cheap to buy and Why not make a note
are easy to install. Once you have your in your diary to remind
smoke alarms, however, it is vital that you you when the smoke
position them carefully so as to make the alarm in your house
best possible use of them. needs checking?
If your house is built on more than one level
there should be at least one smoke alarm on Where would you put the smoke alarms in the house above?
each level of your house. Remember that any smoke can set the alarm off so the kitchen is not the best of places to
put one - particularly if you are not such a good cook! (Discuss with a parent / teacher.)
AN EARLY
WARNING OF FIRE CAN FIT SMOKE ALARMS IN YOUR HOME - CHECK BATTERIES WEEKLY
SAVE LIVES!
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