- Involve everyone in your household in drawing a floor plan of each level of your home on a grid, designating two exits out of each room — through the doors and windows. Discuss potential escape routes with everyone in your home, including visitors and babysitters.
- Mark the location of each smoke alarm on your grid with an “SA” to indicate where smoke alarms can be found.
- Agree on a meeting place a safe distance outside your home where everyone will gather once you’re out of your home. Mark your meeting place on your escape grid.
- Make sure the street number of your home is clearly visible from the road, so emergency responders can easily find your home.
- NEVER go back into a burning building.
- If someone is missing, tell the fire department dispatcher and the firefighters when they arrive.
- Store or post your completed emergency escape route plan with other emergency information that you share with your babysitter or other visitors to your home.
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