Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 11 of 12 Your Escape Plan, more than eighty percent of the fires here in the Unite States occur in homes. Our familys are very familiar with the fire drills, that occur in Schools and some Offices, but too few families have a fire escape plan for their home. Baker Home Commercial Properties Inspections and Consulting urges you and your family to make a Fire Escape plan, and to practice fire drills in your home.
By working on a Fire Escape Plan together, you and your family will then know the safest way out of your home. A very useful tip; after you and your family have completed your Fire Escape Plan, give a copy of the plan to each member of your family. And also post a copy of it in a common area in your home so everyone can look at it every day.
Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 11 of 12 Your Escape Plan, its always a good idea to plan two ways out of each room of your home, if your able to do so. Identify each as the first way out and the second way out. An example is, the first way out should be a door, and the second way out could be a window. Be sure every member of your family, can open the windows easily. Not all rooms have two exits, so pleasehave every member of your family Practice your home's Fire Escape Plan. If you have a two story home, plan your escape through a window onto a porch roof, if at all possible. If a escape ladder should need to be used, be sure everyone in the house hold knows how to use it. Your kids should only practice this only with you there.
Be sure to have a pleace where your family members should meet up at outside your home, and mark it on your Fire Escape Plan. Here are some good meeting places, a neighbour's house, a telephone pole or a tree away from your home. Be sure eveyone understands the planned escape routes.
Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 11 of 12 Your Escape Plan, you should have smoke alarms outside each bedroom, and on each additional level of your home. Sleep with your bedroom door closed. A closed door will help keep smoke out of the room, and give you some time to escape. Its also a very good idea to have a smoke alarm inside each bedroom. If you do suspect theres a fire, be sure to touch the door surface before opening any door, but do not touch the door handle first, it very will could be hot enough to burn your hand. Its hightly recommended that you should test all smoke alarms in your home, on a monthly basis. And the batteries should be replaced at least twice a year. You should also replace all smoke alarms over ten years old, at that age, they are considered outdated.
You and your family should be sure to practice your family's escape plan, if anyone should see smoke on their way out, they should use the secondary way out. If anyone should have to escape through smoke, be sure to crawl low under it where they will find the air to be cleaner. Along with practicing your primary escape route, also practice your second way out as well.
Link to Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 12 of 12 A Checklist
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Such an important topic - I sleep through the smoke detectors!
Howdy there Marilyn
Appreciate you stopen by to visit, and its a plasure to read and write a reply back to your comment. On this blog post, here at my little ole Blogging Homestead.
Thank you kindly! Thats sure not a good thing to do.
It is always good if you have a two story house to have a plan on how to get out from the upstairs and always keep smoke detectors in good working condition.
Some more excellent tips Dale.
Howdy there Carl and Ceil
Its always such a pleasure to have y'all stop by to sit and visit for a spill, and to read and write a reple back to each comment. Y'all leave on the blog posts, here at my little ole Blogging Homestead, my friends
Carl - evern if folks have only a one story home they sure do need to have a plan, on just how to get out of the home. Seen that the inside of a building, no matter what kind it might be. Looks a whole lot different, when theres smoke, and folks are under pressure to find their way out. Thank you mighty kindly!
Dale,
Every family needs to read this post. I have worked with the Farm Bureau Fire Trailer to bring fire escape education to elementary students. Great post.
Dale,
This reminded me that, yesterday, I saw a fire escape at a commercial building. It got you to about 20 feet from ground. Not sure that would help too much.
A great message, Dale!
Howdy there Judi, Steven, Team
It a real pleasure to have y'all stop by to visit for a bit, and to read and write a reply back to each of you. On this blog post, here at my little ole Blogging Homestead, my friends
Judi - I'm sure hope at least alot of familys all over the Country stop by to read it. In the pass I have gave talkes at Schools. It sure is a mighty good feelen, one gets from doing them. Thank you kindly!
Steven - Maybe it had one of them slide down ladder. That folks can't unless they are on the fire escape.
Team - Thank you kindly, Y'all and each of your familys, also have a real fine and Happy Thanksgiving!