Plan and practice home fire drills at least twice a year. Make sure you know two ways out of each room.
If you have children and want to make this a family activity:
• Make a map of your home. Mark a door and a window that can be used to get out of every room.
• Choose a meeting place outside in front of your home. This is where everyone can meet once they’ve escaped and where firefighters can see you and know you are out. Draw a picture of your outside meeting place on your escape plan.
• Write the emergency telephone number for the fire department on your escape plan.
• Sound the smoke alarm, and practice your escape drill with everyone in your home.
• Keep your escape plan on the refrigerator, and practice the drill twice a year or whenever anyone in your home celebrates a birthday.
If your family is all adults:
• Walk through your home, and identify two ways out of each room.
• Choose a meeting place outside in front of your home. This is where everyone can meet once they’ve escaped and where firefighters can see you and know you are out.
• Make sure everyone knows the emergency number for your local fire department.
• Practice your escape drill twice a year.
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