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5. Limitations of Heat Alarms
•Heat alarms are not designed to protect life safety against fire and smoke. In most fires, hazardous
levels of toxic gases, smoke and heat can build up before a heat alarm will operate. In cases where life
safety is an issue, heat alarms should only be used to provide an added source of information and as
a supplement to the smoke alarm installation. Heat alarms do not always detect fires, the fire may be
a slow smoldering (smoke producing) low heat producing type, the fire may be in a different room than
the alarm, or the heat from the fire may bypass the alarm. This alarm will not detect smoke, gases or
flames.
•Leading authorities recommend that both ionization and photoelectric smoke alarms be installed to
help insure maximum detection of the various types of fires that can occur within the home. Ionization
sensing alarms may detect invisible fire particles (associated with fast flaming fires) sooner than pho-
toelectric alarms. Photoelectric sensing alarms may detect visible fire particles (associated with slow
smoldering fires) sooner than ionization alarms.
•Life safety from fire in residential occupancies is based primarily on early notification to occupants of
the need to escape, followed by the appropriate egress actions by those occupants.
•Fire warning systems for dwelling units are capable of protecting about half of the occupants in po-
tentially fatal fires. Victims are often intimate with the fire, too old or young, or physically or mentally
impaired such that they cannot escape even when warned early enough that escape should be pos-
sible. For these people, other strategies such as protection-in-place or assisted escape or rescue are
necessary.
•A battery powered alarm must have a battery of the specified type, in good condition and installed
properly (This model has a sealed battery).
•Heat alarms must be tested regularly to make sure the battery and the alarm circuits are in good operating
condition.
•If the alarm is located outside the bedroom or on a different floor, it may not wake up a sound sleeper.
•Heat alarms cannot provide an alarm if heat does not reach the alarm. Therefore, heat alarms may not
sense fires starting in chimneys, walls, on roofs, on the other side of a closed door or on a different
floor. If the alarm is located outside the bedroom or on a different floor, it may not wake up a sound
sleeper. The use of alcohol or drugs may also impair ones ability to hear the alarm. For maximum
protection heat alarms should only be used as a supplement to smoke alarms. Smoke alarms should be
installed in each sleeping area on every level of a home and be interconnecte with each other and the
heat alarms.
•Although heat alarms when combined with smoke alarms, can help save lives by providing an early
warning of a fire, they are not a substitute for an insurance policy. Home owners and renters should
have adequate insurance to protect their lives and property..
NOTE: This alarm is not intended to alert hearing impaired individuals.