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TAKE ACTION!
1) Tonight, when you go home, take an inventory of how many smoke alarms are in your house. Make sure you have a fresh battery ready for every smoke alarm. Then change the battery this weekend when you change your clock.
2) Housing managers: Take time this week to remind your residents to change their smoke alarm batteries. Consider implementing a battery exchange program to coincide with daylight saving time changes. This will ensure your residents have fresh batteries and allow you to control the battery waste stream.
3) Commercial service managers: Take time this week to talk to your concessions contractors about their responsibilities to ensure their fire and life safety systems are in working order in all of their buildings.
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In 2008, an NPS unit experienced a fire in a concessions employee dormitory. Upon arrival at the scene the fire department cut off the power to the building in order to protect the firefighters entering the building. Consequently, the alarm system did not have a working battery backup disabling the room smoke detectors. One employee did not awaken and exit the building. Thankfully the quick work of our NPS structural firefighters saved this person's life in what could have been a tragic and avoidable accident. |
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What is Prevention 52?
Its intent is to educate and empower all NPS employees to help prevent structure fires.
It is a relevant fire prevention message every week of the year...
52 to be exact!
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Change your clock=Change your battery
As we spring ahead this weekend, spring up to your smoke detectors and change the batteries.
As we review reports from fire and life safety inspections conducted by professional fire protection engineers, there is one consistent theme:Smoke alarms without batteries! Guest cabins, apartment buildings, dormitories, single family homes all have the same issue which means our visitors, employees and partners may be sleeping in buildings that are not equipped to notify them of a fire.
Luckily, this problem can be fixed immediately: Put a battery in your smoke alarm!
Ok, it is understood that there are reasons the battery was removed. Maybe it is too close to cooking smoke or shower steam, or maybe it's dirty. All of these problems can be a nuisance by causing frequent false alarms. The solution however, is not removing the battery, but cleaning or relocating your smoke alarm.
The National Fire Protection Association tells us we should change our smoke alarm batteries twice a year, why not just time it with the changing of your clock? So to prepare for this weekend make sure you have enough batteries available for all of your smoke detectors and remember, when you change your clock, change you batteries. |
Just for You
Employees:
Did you know according to the National Fire Protection Agency that having a working smoke detector in your house will cut the risk of dying in a fire by 50 percent? Read more.
Park Leadership:
The Structural Fire Branch has been sending professional fire protection engineers into your parks for many years. We have found:
- almost 46% of buildings where people sleep that require full fire alarm systems do not have them,
- almost 17% of the buildings where people sleep that require smoke alarms do not have them.
National/Regional Leadership:
We simply have too many buildings where people sleep that do not have adequate smoke protection. There are a lot of reasons why:
- occupants remove smoke alarms,
- old buildings are no longer in compliance with modern codes,
- inadequate numbers of people to conduct compliance inspections,
- new and altered building plans that do not get reviewed by competent fire officials.
We challenge all leaders to think about how to resolve this issue. What are your ideas? We would love to hear them.
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You have an opportunity every week to make a difference! Don't let historic ashes be your legacy...
Prevention 52 begins with you!
Sincerely,
NPS Branch of Structural Fire
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