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More specifically, install Smoke Alarms:
• On every level of your home, including finished
attics and basements.
• Inside every bedroom, especially if people sleep
with the door partly or completely closed.
• In the hall near every sleeping area. If your home
has multiple sleeping areas, install a unit in
each. If a hall is more than 12 meters long
(40 feet), install a unit at each end.
• At the top of the first-to-second floor stairway,
and at the bottom of the basement stairway.
Specific requirements for Smoke Alarm installation
vary from state to state and from region to region.
Check with your local Building Inspector and/or Fire
Department for current requirements in your area. If
you install AC or AC/DC units, it is recommended
(and may be required) they be interconnected for
added protection.
Installing Smoke Alarms in Mobile Homes
For minimum security install one Smoke Alarm as close
to each sleeping area as possible. For more security,
put one unit in each room. Many older mobile homes
(especially those built before 1978) have little or no
insulation. If your mobile home is not well insulated, or
if you are unsure of the amount of insulation, it is
important to install units on inside walls only. Smoke
Alarms should be installed where temperatures normal-
ly remain between 40˚F (4˚C) and 100˚F (38˚C).
This equipment should be installed in accordance with
NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) 72 and
101.
National Fire Protection Association, One Batterymarch
Park, Quincy, MA 02269-9101. Additional local build-
ing and regulatory codes may apply in your area.
Always check compliance requirements before
beginning any installation.
Smoke Alarms Recommended In Hotels, Motels,
Hospitals, Extended Care Facilities
Install stand-alone (non-interconnected) AC powered
Smoke Alarms with battery back-up for maximum
protection in each sleeping room.
AGENCY PLACEMENT
RECOMMENDATIONS
NFPA 72 (National Fire Code)
Smoke Alarms shall be installed in each separate sleep-
ing room, outside each sleeping area in the immediate
vicinity of the bedrooms and on each additional story of
the family living unit, including basements and exclud-
ing crawl spaces and unfinished attics.
In new construction, Alarms shall be so arranged that
operation of any one Alarm shall cause the operation of
all Alarms within the dwelling.
Smoke Detection-Are More Smoke Alarms Desirable?
The required number of Smoke Alarms might not pro-
RECOMMENDED STAND-ALONE
(NON-INTERCONNECTED)SMOKE ALARMS
HALLWAY
INDIVIDUAL ROOMS
LOBBY