Home Escape Plan

Did You Know...

• In less than 30 seconds, a small flame can turn into a major fire. 
• Fire can spread rapidly throughout your home, leaving as little as one or two minutes to escape safely once the smoke alarm sounds.
• Only 47% of families have developed and practiced a home, fire escape plan.
• Every two and a half hours, someone is killed in a home fire. In a typical year, 20,000 people are injured in a home fire.
• Having a working smoke alarm reduces the chance of dying in a fire by nearly half.
• Children and older adults are twice as likely to die in a home fire.
• A closed door may slow the spread of smoke, heat and fire.

Top Safety Tips

Create a Home Fire Escape Plan

• Draw your home floor plan.
• Label all the rooms and identify the doors and windows.  
• Plan 2 escape routes from every room.
• Provide alternatives for anyone with a disability.
• Agree on a meeting place where everyone will gather after you have escaped.

Practice Your Home Fire Escape Plan

• Review your escape plan with everyone that stays in the house, including children.
• Test the smoke alarm, monthly.
• Practice crawling low beneath the smoke.
• Remember to check doors for heat with your hand; if a door is hot, do not open it.
• Close the doors as you leave.
• Practice with a collapsible ladder if you have one.
• Go directly to your meeting place; do not stop to find your pets or valuables.
• Remember to get out and stay out.
• Practice your plan at least twice a year.