Almost two-thirds of all home fire deaths occur in homes with no working smoke alarms.
Protect your family by installing smoke alarms, inspecting them regularly, and practicing
home fire drills. Working smoke alarms reduce your risk of dying in a home fire by 50%.
Install
- Install smoke alarms in every bedroom, in hallways outside bedrooms or sleeping areas, and on every level of the home.
- Install smoke alarms on the ceiling or high on a wall. Make sure they are at least 10 feet from the stove and 3 feet from doors leading to the kitchen to reduce false alarms.
- Keep smoke alarms away from bathrooms with tubs or showers, heating or cooling ducts or vents, and ceiling or whole-house fans.
- Check the back for the manufacture date and replace all alarms when they are 10 years old.
- Use interconnected smoke alarms so when one sounds, they all sound.
- It’s safest to use both ionization and photoelectric smoke alarms. Ionization alarms are quicker to warn about flaming fires. Photoelectric alarms are quicker to warn about smoldering fires.
- Special alarms with strobe lights and bed shakers are available for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Inspect
- Test all smoke alarms once a month.
- Follow the manufacturer’s instructions for cleaning to keep smoke alarms working well.
Protect
- Draw a home escape plan that shows two ways out of every room and an outside meeting place.
- Teach children what the smoke alarm sounds like and what to do if they hear it.
- Practice home fire drills at least twice a year.
救命的煙霧警報器
近三分之二的致命住宅火災，都發生在沒有安裝有效煙霧警報器的家庭中。通過安裝煙霧警報器、定期檢查以及實施家庭火災演習，保護您的家人。有效的煙霧警報器可以使發生致命家庭火災的風險降低50％。
安裝煙霧警報器
- 在家中每一層樓的每個臥室或睡眠區外的走廊，以及每一層樓安裝煙霧警報器。
- 在天花板或高處的牆上安裝煙霧警報器。確保它們距離爐子至少 10 呎，並距離通往廚房的門至少 3 呎，以減少錯誤警報。
- 煙霧警報器應遠離帶有浴缸或淋浴的浴室、暖氣或冷氣導管或通風口，以及天花板或全屋式風扇。
- 檢查生產日期，並在使用10 年時更換所有警報器。
- 使用相連的煙霧警報器，這樣當一個警報器發出聲音時，會觸動所有警報器。
- 最安全的做法是同時使用離子式和光電式煙霧警報器。離子式警報器可快速警告有燃燒火焰的火災。光電警報器可快速警告有煙霧的火災。
- 為聽障或重聽的家人安裝特殊的警報器，例如配有閃光燈和床震功能的煙霧警報器。
檢查煙霧警報器
- 每月測試所有煙霧警報器。
- 按照製造商的清潔說明，保持煙霧警報器的良好狀態。
全家一起來預防火災
- 製訂家庭逃生計劃，顯示每個房間的兩條出路和外部集合地點。
- 教小孩認識煙霧警報器的聲音，及聽到聲音時應該做什麼。
- 每年至少進行兩次家庭火災演習。