What is a fire escape plan?
It’s your strategy for a safe exit from your home during a fire emergency. How likely is it that a fire could occur in your home? Each year in Oklahoma there are more than 6,500 residential fires. As a result of those fires, more than 70 people are killed and hundreds of others are injured. What ingredients make up an effective escape plan? A careful escape plan begins with careful preparation, proper placement of smoke detectors and regular Exit Drills In The Home (E.D.I.T.H.). How to Design A Fire Escape Plan Planning ahead provides numerous benefits. Advanced planning will ensure that you are ready for any fire emergency and can provide you and your loved ones peace of mind. To design your own fire escape plan, sketch the floor plan of your home on the graph provided. Indicate on the graph all doors, windows and other areas from which you cold escape from each room in your home. Draw arrows to indicate the normal exits, which would be your primary, escape routes. With an alternate c
What ingredients make up an effective escape plan? A careful escape plan begins with careful preparation, proper placement of smoke detectors and regular Exit Drills In The Home (E.D.I.T.H.) practice. Hopefully you will never have a fire in your home. However, should a fire occur, your safety and that of your family will depend on calm, rational actions of the occupants. Exit drills in the home and a carefully designed escape plan can be the key to a safe escape.
