Where To Place Smoke Detectors In Your Pet Store

When you own a pet store, your primary responsibility and concern are the animals you care for until you find permanent homes for them. A fire in your facility, which can take off quickly due to dry feed or cases of bedding, can be devastating and quickly injure or kill caged animals before you can get them all to safety. It's important to not only keep a fire extinguisher in the front and storage areas of your store, you need to make sure you have smoke detectors operating in key areas as well to warn you quickly of smoke that can turn into deadly flames. Here is a guide to show you just where you need to place these life-saving devices to keep you, your employees, and the animals protected.

Inventory storage area

This may be a closed-off area where you keep feed, accessories, and extra housing for your animals or an area where you simply store records of the animals you keep and other documents related to your store. You may not even have cages in the room or consider this area a threat in the event of a fire. Due to the lack of constant surveillance in this area and the potentially flammable items it contains, you need a smoke detector both in the front and rear entry of your storage room.

All pet rooms

Your bird display, fish exhibit, and rooms where you keep cats and dogs should each have their own smoke alarm. A bird may chew through an electrical cord or bedding in a cage can get stuck in a vent and cause an accidental fire in the heating or air conditioning system. Since the fish tanks are operated by motors, you will want to keep a fire extinguisher in this area as well for quick access to put out flames caused by faulty machinery that helps keep fish alive.

The register

While a fire isn't the most likely to occur at the main area of your store, you need a smoke detector in this area so the noise emitted by the alarms can be heard by your employees and customers most effectively, It's wise to have a smoke detector near all entryways and hallways that customers and employees frequent so if a smoke or fire is present, the alarms can sound quickly to allow enough time to get out or react to a small fire effectively.

For more information, talk to a professional like GMW Fire Protection.