Fire escape planning tips
Here are some tips and information to help you and your family create a fire escape plan for your home.
- Designate a safe meeting place outside your home everyone can get to after a fire. Make sure everyone in your family understands where to go.
- Use graph paper to draw a floor plan of your home and show two ways out of each room.
- Make sure each family member is aware of two ways out of each room.
- Practice your family escape plan twice each year.
- Practice at different times of the day to make sure people know what to do during nightime hours.
- Walk through your home periodically and inspect all exits and escape routes.
Did you know?
- More than 80 percent of families have not practiced home fire drills.
- Experts estimate you have as little as two minutes to safely escape your home once the smoke alarm sounds.
- Working smoke alarms provide the valuable seconds needed to escape a burning residence.