How Do You Practice A Home Fire Escape Plan?
Practice makes perfect and this includes practicing how to escape your home during a fire. Very few people have developed a home fire escape plan and fewer still have ever practiced this escape plan. A house fire can become deadly in a matter of minutes. By running your own “fire drills,” each family member has a better chance of survival. Practicing a home fire escape plan teaches families to react quickly and exit safely and reinforces vital information every family needs to know before a potentially deadly fire occurs. Draw up an escape plan, if you don’t already have one in place. Involve everyone in the family while making the escape plan. Simply draw a diagram of each room in the house and clearly mark all windows, doors and stairs, which are possible escape routes. Then, physically go through each room with the diagram in hand and with all family members present. Mark the primary and secondary routes of escape from each individual room clearly on the diagram and physically point
