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Bureau of Fire Safety
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Window Decals
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| The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) does not recommend the use of window decals such as "Tot Finders" which are designed to alert firefighters to the locations of children's bedrooms. As a result, the Chatham Borough Bureau of Fire Safety does not issue such decals. The NFPA's reasoning is based upon the following: |
- NFPA's educational philosophy is to teach proactive quick response to a fire situation for people of all ages. These decals could give a false sense of security by implying that it is safe for children to wait to be rescued rather than responding immediately on their own. Children, even at a very young age, can be taught the basics of home escape planning; responding immediately when smoke alarms sound, knowing two ways out of every room, crawling low under smoke, and gathering at a meeting place and calling the fire department from outside the burning building.
- Window decals signal an area of vulnerability in the home. This could put the children and/or the entire household at risk from intruders.
- NFPA is concerned about the safety of firefighters who may enter a bedroom with a decal on the window to search for trapped children, only to learn later that the children had changed rooms, grown up or moved out.
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