- Have a designated, pre-arranged, meeting place for all family members
outside of the home, preferably at your neighbor's home.
- Once family members leave the burning home, they should not return. More
lives are lost by those returning to the burning home. Gather at the
pre-arranged meeting place. The fire department should then be called.
- Hold a family meeting. Stress the importance of fire safety to everyone.
Develop and practice your home's evacuation plan.
- The very young, the aged and the infirm should have their sleeping areas
on the home's first floor to enable them to exit safely.
- Each person should have at least two exits from his/her sleeping area.
- Sleep with the bedroom doors closed. When you hear the smoke detector
alarm, first, feel the door panel. If it's cool to the touch, open the door
cautiously. If it's hot, use the other exit.
- Leave the burning home quickly... Heat and smoke begin to build up
immediately, even in the early stages of a fire. Smoke and asphyxiation are
the real killers in home fires.
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