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Home Fire Sprinkler Pictographs

These pictographs will help you to overcome literacy barriers and communicate home fire sprinkler messages with pictures to high-risk populations.

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Home fire sprinklers protect lives by keeping fires small. Sprinklers can reduce the heat, flames and smoke produced in a fire, allowing people more time to escape.
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Home fire sprinklers activate on individual basis. Only the sprinkler closest to the fire will activate, spraying water on the fire and not the rest of the home.
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