Safehouse Quiet Reset Smoke Alarm  
(490-0458)                 NFPA Recommendations       Faxback Doc. # 34308

NFPA RECOMMENDATIONS

For your information, the National Fire Protection Association's Standard
74, Chapter 2, reads as follows:

2-1.1  This standard requires the following detectors within the family
       unit.

2-1.1.1  Smoke detectors shall be installed outside of each separate
         sleeping area in the immediate vicinity of the bedrooms and on
         each additional story of the family living unit including the
         basement and excluding crawl spaces and unfinished attics.  (See
         note 1, below.)

NOTE 1 - The provisions of 2-1.1.1 represent the minimum number of
         detectors required by this standard.  It is recommended that the
         householders consider the use of additional smoke or heat
         detectors for increased protection of areas separated by a door
         from the areas protected by the required smoke detectors under
         2-1.1.1 above.  The recommended additional areas are: living room,
         dining room, bedroom(s), kitchen, attic (finished or unfinished),
         furnace room, utility room, basement, integral or attached garage,
         and hallways not covered under 2-1.1.1 above.  However, the use of
         additional detectors remains the option of the householder.

2-1.1.2  For family living units with one or more split levels (i.e.,
         adjacent levels with less than one full story separation between
         levels), a smoke detector required by 2-1.1.1 shall suffice for an
         adjacent lower level, including basements.

Exception:  Where there is an intervening door between one level and the
            adjacent lower level, a smoke detector shall be installed on
            the lower level.

2-2  Alarm Sounding Devices.  Each detection device shall cause the
     operation of an alarm which shall be clearly audible in all
     bedrooms over background noise levels with all intervening doors
     closed.  The tests of audibility level shall be conducted with all
     household equipment which may be in operation at night in full
     operation.

Examples of such equipment are window air conditions and room humidifiers.


(LB/EB 08/01/96)