User's Manual

16 TouchScreen Quick Start Guide
Evacuation Plan
Develop an emergency evacuation plan for use in the event of fire. Here are some recommendations
from the National Fire Protection Association.
l Make an evacuation plan for how to leave your home in the case of fire or other emergency.
Sketch a map of your home that shows all the doors and windows. Discuss the plan with
everyone in your home so that everyone will know what to do.
l Have at least two ways to exit each room. Make sure that windows and doors open easily.
l Discuss with your family and agree on a single meeting location outside your home.
l In the event of fire, get out and stay out. Don’t go back inside for people, pets or possessions.
l Do not open a door if the handle is hot.
l If there is smoke stay low to the ground and go under the smoke.
l Escape your home before calling the fire department. Call the fire department and police from
the outside meeting place using your cell phone or call from a neighbor’s phone.
l Practice your home evacuation plan.
Additional Emergency Preparations
l Do not wait until an emergency occurs to make a plan. Talk to each other about what each
person should do in different types of emergency.
l Learn your security system. Get to know how to arm and disarm it and what to do when the
authorities or central monitoring calls.
l Make sure everyone (who should know) knows the Secret Word, when to use it, and that it
should not be shared.
l Understand the difference between your keypad code and the duress code.
l Understand that you should never enter the premises if you hear an alarm. Call police from a
cell phone or a neighbor’s phone.