"Plan" for Fire Safety

• Draw a floor plan of your home showing the bedrooms, halls, stairs, exit doors, and windows. 

• Mark the preferred (normal) exit route from each bedroom.

• Plan and mark an alternate (emergency) escape route from each bedroom. (A window may be the only emergency escape route from a bedroom).  This alternate route is to be used if fire, heat, or smoke block the normal exit route.

• Plan a definite place to meet the rest of the family outside of the house, and write it on the floor plan.

• Plan how you will evacuate (or rescue) any crib-age children, invalids, or handicapped in your household.

• Decide which telephone (outside your dwelling) you will use to notify the fire department of the fire.

• Install automatic fire detection (e.g. smoke detectors)

• Practice your plan often in mock drills.