24/7 Emergency ServiceEscape a House Fire (Part 2): Practice Your Plan
6/18/2019 (Permalink)
Have a plan to escape a house fire and practice it at least twice a year.
House fires can start anywhere and at any time, so at least twice a year run through your plan at different times of the day or night, and practice different ways out.
- Check your smoke alarms: Test your smoke alarms each month so all family members know the sound. Make sure there’s a smoke alarm on every level of your home, and one in each bedroom.
- Know where to go: When the smoke alarm sounds, everyone must get out of the house quickly and go to your safe meeting place.
- Do the drill: Have kids head to their bedrooms and wait for the drill to begin. Assign adults to help children under 6. Put one adult in charge of sounding the smoke alarm and running the drill. Next, sound the smoke alarm, start the timer and have everyone hurry to the meeting spot. Once all are there, stop the timer. Did you escape and gather in less than two minutes? If not, keep practicing.
In a real fire, get to your safe meeting place, call 911 and keep everyone close until firefighters arrive!
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