Home Fire Escape Planning
The month of May provides perfect weather for your family to test your home fire escape plan. Plan Ahead! If a fire breaks out in your home, you may have only a few minutes to get out safely once the smoke alarm sounds. Everyone needs to know what to do and where to go if there is a fire.
YOUR PLAN:
- MAKE a home escape plan. Draw a map of your home showing all doors and windows. Discuss the plan with everyone in your home.
- KNOW at least two ways out of every room, if possible. Make sure all doors and windows leading outside open easily.
- HAVE an outside meeting place (like a tree, bush, fence pole) a safe distance from the home where everyone should meet.
- PRACTICE your home fire drill at night and during the day with everyone in your home, twice a year.
- TEACH children how to escape on their own in case you can’t help them.
- CLOSE doors behind you as you leave.
- IF THE ALARM SOUNDS:
- If the smoke alarm sounds, GET OUT AND STAY OUT. Never go back inside for people or pets.
- If you must escape through smoke, GET LOW AND GO under the smoke to your way out.
- CALL the Fire Department from outside your home.
IF THE ALARM SOUNDS:
- If the smoke alarm sounds, GET OUT AND STAY OUT. Never go back inside for people or pets.
- If you must escape through smoke, GET LOW AND GO under the smoke to your way out.
- CALL the Fire Department from outside your home.
According to a National Fire Protection Association survey, ONLY ONE OF EVERY THREE American households have actually developed and practiced a home fire escape plan!
Information Source: nfpa.org/education