Instruction manual

7
Fire Alarm
Your installer will tell you if fire detection equipment has been installed and activated on your system.
Fire alarms sound with a pulsing tone. If you hear a fire alarm, follow your emergency evacuation plan immediately.
Refer to the guidelines for family escape planning at the back of this manual.
Intrusion Alarm
Intrusion alarms sound with a continuous tone. If you have a PC4936 audio system connected to your security
system, the Escort4580 will announce the zones which are in alarm over each intercom station.
If you hear an intrusion alarm, an intruder may be on the premises. Go to a safe place immediately. If you are
certain that the premises are safe, you can silence the alarm from the telephone.
1. Access the security system using the steps described in the 'Accessing Your Security System' and 'Accessing
Partitions' sections of this manual.
2. If the alarm was unintentional, notify your central station and/or the local authorities immediately to prevent
an unnecessary response.
You can determine the source of an alarm by following the instructions in the 'Alarm Memory' section below. Once
the source of the alarm has been corrected, you can arm the system again.
Alarm Memory
Your system will record alarms that occurred while the system was armed. If an alarm occurred while the system
was armed, the system will announce this message when you disarm the system:
'There are {number} alarms in memory, Zones {number}
To exit, press pound.'
1. Press [#].
2. To review the zones that went into alarm, press [*]. The system will announce
'For Alarm Memory press [3]'
2. Press [3].The system will indicate the zones in Alarm Memory with messages similar to the following:
'There are {number} alarms in memory, Zone {number}.
To exit press [#]'
3, When finished reviewing the zones in alarm memory, press [#] to return to the other system status messages.
If An Alarm Sounds
S e c t i o n 7