Gentex 7139CS/CSX & 7139LS Manual De Usuario

3.  If there is smoke in the escape route-keep close to the 

floor and take short breaths.  If possible, cover your nose 
and mouth with a wet cloth.

4.  Do not use your own telephone-call the Fire Department 

from your neighbor's house.

5.  Once out, do not re-enter your house, but proceed to 

your prearranged meeting place.

Putting up smoke alarms is just the first step in protecting

your family from fires. You also must reduce the chances that

fires will start in your home and increase your chances of safely
escaping if one does start.  To have an effective fire safety 
program:

longer functions. As with any electronic product, alarms 
have a limited life, and alarms that don't work cannot protect 
you.

§ Use smoking materials properly; never smoke in bed.

§ Keep matches and cigarette lighters away from children. 

§ Store flammable materials in proper containers and 

never use them near open flames or sparks.

§ Keep electrical appliances and cords in good working 

order and do not overload electrical circuits.

§ Keep stoves, fireplaces, chimneys, and barbecue grills 

grease-free and make sure they are properly installed 
away from combustible materials.

§ Keep portable heaters and open flames such as candles 

away from combustible materials.

§ Do not allow rubbish to accumulate.

§ Draw a floor plan of your home and find two ways to exit 

from each room.  There should be one way to get out of 
each bedroom without opening the door.

§ Teach children what the smoke alarm signal means, 

and that they must be prepared to leave the residence 
by themselves if necessary.  Show them how to check 

to see if doors are hot before opening them, how to 
stay close to the floor and crawl if necessary, and how 
to use the alternate exit if the door is hot and should 

not be opened.

§ Decide on a meeting place a safe distance from your 

house and make sure that all your children understand 
that they should go and wait for you if there is a fire.

§ Hold fire drills at least every 6 months to make sure that 

everyone, even small children, know what to do to 
escape safely.

§ Know where to go to call the fire department from outside 

your residence.

§ Provide emergency equipment such as fire extinguishers 

and teach your family to use this equipment properly.

If you have prepared family escape plans and practiced

them with your family, you have increased their chances of

escaping safely.  Review the following rules with your children
when you have fire drills so everyone will remember them in a
real fire emergency:

a.  Don't panic; stay calm.  Your safe escape may depend on 

thinking clearly and remembering what you have practiced.

b.  Get out of the house following a planned escape route as 

quickly as possible.  Do not stop to collect anything or to 
get dressed.

c.  Open doors carefully only after feeling to see if they are 

hot.  Do not open a door if it is hot; use an alternate 
escape route.

d.  Stay close to the floor; smoke and hot gases rise.

e.  Cover your nose and mouth with a cloth, wet if possible, 

and take short, shallow breaths.

f.   Keep doors and windows closed unless you open them to 

escape.

g.  Meet at your prearranged meeting place after leaving the 

house.

h.  Call the Fire Department as soon as possible from out

side your house.  Give the address and your name.

i.   Never re-enter a burning building.

Contact your local Fire Department for more information   

on making your home safer from fires and about preparing your
family's escape plans.

This alarm is designed to sense smoke entering its sensing

chamber.  It does not sense gas, heat, or flames.

When properly located, installed, and maintained, this

smoke alarm is designed to provide early warning of 

developing fires at a reasonable cost.  This alarm monitors the
air and, when it senses smoke, activates its built-in alarm horn.
It can provide precious time for you and your family to escape

from your residence before a fire spreads.  Such an early 
warning, however, is possible only if the alarm is located,
installed, and maintained as specified in this User's Manual.

NOTE:  This smoke alarm is designed for use within 

single residential living units only; that is, it should be used
inside a single-family home or one apartment of a 

multi-family building.  In a multi-family building, the alarm may
not provide early warning for residents if it is placed outside of
the residential units, such as on outside porches, in corridors, 

lobbies, basements, or in other apartments.  In multi-family
buildings, each residential unit should have alarms to alert the
residents of that unit.  Alarms designed to be interconnected

should be interconnected within one family residence only; 
otherwise, nuisance alarms will occur when an alarm in another
living unit is tested.

Smoke alarms will not work without power. A battery

must be connected to the alarm to maintain proper alarm 

operation if AC power supply is cut off by an electrical fire, an
open fuse or circuit breaker, or for any other reason.  In the
event of AC power failure, the battery will supply standby

power for a minimum of 24 hours. 

smoke cannot reach the alarms such as in chimneys, in

walls, on roofs, or on the other side of closed doors.  If 
bedroom doors are usually closed at night, alarms should be
placed in each bedroom as well as in the common hallway

between them.

level of a residence or building. For example, a second-floor

alarm may not sense a first-floor or basement fire.  Therefore,
alarms should be placed on every level of a residence or
building.

The horn in your alarm meets or exceeds current audibility

requirements of Underwriters Laboratories.  However, if the
alarm is located outside a bedroom, it may not wake up a

sound sleeper, especially if the bedroom door is closed or only
partly open.  If the alarm is located on a different level of the
residence than the bedroom, it is even less likely to wake up

people sleeping in the bedroom.  In such cases, the National
Fire Protection Association recommends that the alarms be
interconnected so that an alarm on any level of the residence

will sound an alarm loud enough to awaken sleepers in closed
bedrooms. This can be done by installing a fire-detection 
system, by connecting alarms together, or by using radio 

frequency transmitters and receivers.

NOTE:  This alarm is not designed to replace special-

purpose fire detection and alarm systems necessary to 
protect persons and property in non-residential buildings such

as warehouses, or other large industrial or commercial build-
ings.  It alone is not a suitable substitute for complete fire-
detection systems designed to protect individuals in hotels and

motels, dormitories, hospitals, or other health and supervisory
care and retirement homes.  Please refer to NFPA 101,The Life
Safety Code, and NFPA 72 for smoke alarm requirements for

fire protection in buildings not defined as "households."

Installing smoke alarms may make you eligible for lower insur-

ance rates, but smoke alarms are not a substitute for insur-

ance. Home owners and renters should continue to insure
their lives and property. 

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