Fire Alarm System: Fire Safety Do’s and Don’ts

A fire alarm system warns individuals when smoke, fire, carbon monoxide, or other fire-related risks are found. These alarms can be set off manually using fire alarm activation tools such as manual call points or pull stations and automatically by smoke and heat detectors. 

Alarms come in the form of wall-mounted sounders, horns, or mechanized bells. They might also be speaker strobes that play an evacuation announcement after flashing an alarm to remind residents not to use the elevators. 

Fire alarm sounders can be tuned to various frequencies and tones, including low, medium, and high, depending on the country and device maker. Most fire alarm systems in Europe emit an alternating siren-like sound. 

Horns are electronic fire alarm systems that may be set to different codes or be continuous, and they are called such in the United States and Canada. The loudness of fire alarm warning devices can also be changed. 

The fire Alarm System is pretty cool, right? Let’s now go further into our main topic.

Do’s

• Find out how to evacuate your building.
• When a carbon monoxide or fire alarm sounds, leave immediately and quietly.
• Keep crucial goods close at hand for easy access in the case of a building evacuation, such as prescriptions and medical supplies.
• Know two exits from any building.
• Use the back of your hand to feel a door before opening it. If the door is hot, don’t open it.
• Stay low to the ground if you encounter smoke while evacuating.
• Know where to meet outside your building.
• When there is a smoke or fire emergency, pull the fire alarm at the closest station, warn individuals around, and then phone the fire department or the Barangay officials from a safe place.
• Make sure the batteries are in the smoke and carbon monoxide alarms. When you turn the clocks back or forward, replace the batteries (in non-BU-owned property).
• Regularly check your carbon monoxide and smoke alarms.
• Ensure that the doors to the stairs and hallways are shut securely.
• Understand where the fire alarm pull stations, exits, and extinguishers are located.
• Get fire extinguisher training.
• Completely extinguish the BBQ coals.

Do NOT

• Leave open flames such as those on barbeque grills, candles, or incense unattended. (Take note that these things are not allowed in dorms at universities.)
• Avoid placing halogen bulbs next to drapes or other combustibles. (University housing is not permitted to use halogen bulbs.)
• Tapestries can be hung from walls or ceilings.
• Cooking equipment should be left unattended.
• Use grills for barbecuing indoors or on fire escapes.
• Light up in bed. (University housing is not permitted for smoking.)
• tamper with sprinkler systems, smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, or fire alarms.
• Ignore any building alarms.
• Anything may be hung from pipes or sprinkler heads.
• The system’s operation may be hampered by foreign items.
• Open doors in case of fire or smoke.
• When evacuating, use the elevators.

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