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Fire Safety Plan
Fire can engulf your house in 60 seconds. Fire
Safety Plans save lives!
Prepare
- Make sure all family members know what to do in the event of
a fire.
- Draw a floor plan with at least two ways of escaping every
room. Make a drawing for each floor. Dimensions do not need to
be exact. Make sure the plan shows important details; stairs,
hallways and windows that can be used as fire escape routes.
- Test windows and doors. Is each family member able to open
them? General maintenance of these egress paths is essential to
escaping the house.
- Choose a safe meeting place outside the house.
Practice Your Fire Safety Plan
- Practice alerting each other of a fire. Part of practicing
your fire safety plan could be yelling "Fire" as loudly as
possible, or by pressing the "test" button on a smoke detector.
- Practice evacuating the building blind-folded. In a real
fire situation, the amount of smoke generated by a fire will
most likely make it difficult to see.
- Practice staying low to the ground when escaping.
- Feel all doors before opening them. If a door is hot, go out
another way.
- Learn to stop, drop and roll if clothing catches on fire.
- Once you are out, STAY OUT! NEVER go back into a burning
building once you have reached your safe meeting place!
Helpful Hints
- Always sleep with the bedroom doors closed. This will keep
deadly heat and smoke out of bedrooms, giving you additional
time to escape.
- In a fire, time is critical. Don't waste time getting
dressed, don't search for pets or valuables. Just get out!
- Roll out of bed. Stay low. One breath of smoke or gases may
be enough to kill.
- It is a good idea to keep a flashlight for emergency use in
each bedroom.
Kitchen Fires
Most home fires begin in the kitchen. The most effective way to
prevent a kitchen fire is stay near the stove when you are cooking
or frying. Keep your stove and oven clean and keep cooking areas
clear of combustibles. Wear short or tight-fitting sleeves when you
cook. Keep the handles of your pots turned inward so they do not
hang over the outer edge of the stove.
Pan Fires
- If you have a small pan fire on the stove, put on an oven
mitt.
- Carefully slide a lid or cookie sheet over the pan. This
cuts off the oxygen, smothers the flames and allows the fire to
go down.
- Turn off the heat at the burner.
- Leave the pan covered and in place. Do not try to remove it!
- Let the pan cool down before you take away the cookie sheet
or lid.
Oven Fires
- Turn off the heat and keep the door closed.
- Call the fire department so that fire fighters can check for
possible flame spread.
Toaster Oven or Microwave Fires
- Keep the door closed.
- Unplug the appliance if you can safely reach the outlet.
- Call the fire department to report the fire.
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