Installation and Maintenance

Install a smoke alarm between each sleeping area and the rest of your home. If you live in a house with more than one level, install a smoke alarm on each level.

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What to do when a smoke alarm goes off

It is vital you know what to do if a fire occurs. Follow these simple rules to plan how you would escape a fire in your home and practice it with the whole family.

1. Get down low and stay out of smoke
2. If it’s safe, close doors on your way out to slow down the spread of fire and smoke.
3. Alert other people on your way out of the building
4. Get out and stay out
5. Meet at a safe place such as the letterbox outside of your home
6. Call 000 (triple zero) from a mobile phone or a neighbours phone. Ask for FIRE

 

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