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Dad thought he owned and managed the building and called the city and his old
employees in an attempt to have the trees chopped down. He stared at the trees
out the window and decided they had to go. We always agreed with him to keep him calm.
Yes, it's mandatory and precautionary to have units in the room, but if those are the only units, that means that someone has to activate them in the event of a fire. This could leave a gap in coverage and activation, especially if a fire occurred at night when the patient was sleeping. I'm sure though that there's some kind of alarm system? Is there another backup system to detect fires?
That might have been one of your father's concerns.
With automatic sprinkler systems, there are detection methods to activate w/o someone using an extinguisher.
During my father's last rehab syncing into hospice, on his first day there he observed that the placement of the sprinklers would only cover a certain area of the room. He had analyzed how the water would be sprayed, and the approximate radius it would cover. Once he explained his theory, I realized he was right.
Perhaps it was planned that way though, as the sprinklers should have a great enough spray radius that the patient would be in that circle of spray, but the short "hallway" in the room as well as the bathroom would not have been in that spray radius. Then the question would arise whether any staff could get through the short doorway from the corridor to the patient or the patient would be trapped in the room until the fire department arrived.
Like Ahmijoy, I am concerned that no one noticed what your Dad was doing. Having said that, if this occurred during a busy time such when the nursing staff was having to toilet other residents or were in other residents' rooms doing cares, then I can see how your Dad could have gone unsupervised for a length of time.
I do find it curious that the "AL doesn’t know what to do." I wonder if they are trying to put the responsibility of controlling your Dad in your lap? Why? If the AL staff think hard enough, they can come up with solutions. Is your Dad needing more physical care than what the AL staff usually offers? Maybe your Dad needs to go to a Nursing Home Memory Care Unit and not to another Assisted Living facility?
It does concern me, though, that your dad was unobserved for so long that he was able to lift a heavy fire extinguisher off a wall above his head, ferjiggle around with it long enough to pull the pin and spray the contents around. You said the AL is stumped as to what to do. Perhaps he needs more supervision? I’m sure that now they know what he’s capable of, they’ll keep a closer eye on him.