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Why is a fire alarm system important?
Fire alarms play an important role in notifying the building occupants or residential inhabitants that there’s a fire emergency. Most fire alarms also send a signal to a central monitoring station that can either be on or off-site. Otherwise, alarms directly transmit a message to the local fire department.
Do fire alarms actually work?
Smoke alarms are the life saving success story of the past 30 years in the fire safety world. Seventy percent of home fire deaths occur in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms. The presence of a working smoke alarm in a home reduces the risk of dying in a fire by 50\%.
When should you use a fire alarm?
The fire alarm system is designed to give you an early warning when there is a smoke or fire condition in your building. NEVER ignore the alarms just because your area is clear, there may be a fire or smoke condition on another floor that the sensitive detection devices have alerted you to.
How do you respond to a fire alarm?
Fire Alarm Response
- Immediately evacuate the building to the outside.
- NEVER go back to retrieve personal belongings.
- Move away from the front of the building to allow the fire fighters and their trucks to access the building.
Do fire alarms save lives?
Smoke alarms save lives. Smoke alarms that are properly installed and maintained play a vital role in reducing fire deaths and injuries. If there is a fire in your home, smoke spreads fast and you need smoke alarms to give you time to get out.
What do you do in a fire alarm?
This is an emergency situation, so as soon as you hear a fire alarm, get yourself out of your seat and exit the building via the fire exits as quickly as possible. Fire spreads fast, and you don’t always know how long you’ve got before your means of escape are blocked.
What you should do in the event of a fire?
Immediately pull the nearest fire alarm pull station as you exit the building. When evacuating the building, be sure to feel doors for heat before opening them to be sure there is no fire danger on the other side. If there is smoke in the air, stay low to the ground, especially your head, to reduce inhalation exposure.
How do you deal with fire in the workplace?
What to do in case of fire
- Pull the alarm when noticing a fire.
- Do not pick up any belonging.
- Evacuate calmly.
- As far as possible, close windows.
- Do not use lifts.
- Do not open warm or smoking doors.
- If there is smoke in the air, stay low to the ground and protect your mouth and nose.
What action should you take if you hear a continuous fire alarm?
If there is a continuous fire alarm, evacuate to the fire as- sembly point as indicated on fire action notices. Do not re-enter the building unless told it is safe by the fire response team or fire and rescue service.
Are fire alarm detectors intelligent?
In the previous two systems, the “Conventional Fire Alarm System” and the “Addressable Fire Alarm System” the detectors are not considered “intelligent” as they can only give output signals representing the value of detected phenomena. It is left up to the Control Unit to decide whether there is a fire, fault, pre-alarm or other.
Do I need a fire alarm system?
Of course yes, If we used a suitable fire alarm system (well designed) and if people had a good understanding and awareness of fire alarm systems basics. With an efficient fire alarm system is installed in your property you will guarantee: Life saving (save yourself and your family). Money saving.
What does the fire alarm panel monitor?
As mentioned above, the fire alarm panel monitors and indicates what state the system is in at all times. For most systems, there are three states of operation: Normal, Alarm, and Trouble. When all devices, appliances, wiring, and circuitry are operating correctly, and no alarms are activated, the system is operating in a Normal State.
What is the function of a fire alarm control unit?
The control unit is the fire alarm control panel the take all the inputs to the fire alarm system and process them through pre determined program ,then it takes actions to produces outputs of the fire alarm system . The fire alarm control unit is the main brain for the whole system that connects all fire alarm system parts.