Some fires are set. If you smell flammable liquids, etc. contact the Tenant Fire Monitor/Warden and the Property Management Office. Call 911 to report the fire and/or smell of flammable liquids immediately. Forbid the use of candles or naked flames in the office.
Dispose of cigarettes and all other smoking materials in metal receptacles, NEVER wastepaper baskets.
Verify that you can hear the building's emergency communication system from your office as well as from all points on your floor. The building staff will conduct regular alarm tests on each floor.
Know how to use a simple fire extinguisher and how to report a fire by calling 911 and pulling the building fire alarm.
Do not use elevators. Upon activation of fire alarm throughout the building, start evacuation immediately, walk, don't run to the nearest stairwell. Unless otherwise instructed, your destination will be the street level. Make sure a place has been designated outside the building for your employees to meet and be accounted for. The doors on the stairwells are fire rated, and it is extremely important to keep these doors closed.
The fire department will be using the stairwells to go to the fire area. Occupants should stay to the right when going down a stairwell. Remember, always remain calm and alert. If you are exiting a stairwell and it becomes impassable you should go to any lower floor to reach the other stairwell and continue down.
