Fire safety is extremely important and making a home fire safety plan is crucial during a hazardous event. To protect your family from this type of devastation, it’s important to follow fire safety tips at home and have a clearly communicated home fire escape plan in case of an emergency due to a house fire or a wildfire.

                                                      Hold a family meeting.               

Discuss the ins and outs of fire safety, including electrical safety tips, boiler and furnace safety tips, and the importance of cleaning out the lint trap of the dryer. If you have a fireplace how to clean that out safely. To avoid frightening children, be sure to present the facts about home fire risks in a nonthreatening manner. Help them to discover that information is power.

                                                 Create and evacuation plan.

After learning about fire safety as a family, take the flowing steps.

·       Walk through your home together and discuss your evacuation plan for the home. Discuss what might happen if a fire occurs during a daylight hour and what might happen if a fire were to occur while sleeping. Make sure you include a buddy system.

·       Draw up a floor plan for your home. On your plan, mark two potential evacuations from each room through windows and doors. Unblocking any escape routes is fundamental to fire safety.

·       As a family decide on an outside meeting place far enough away from your home.

·       Once the fire safety plan and diagram are finalized, display them from a central location so that family members can familiarize themselves with the information. You may also want to have every family member keep a copy on their phones, in their wallets or even in their rooms.

                                                        Practice evacuating

 Practice makes perfect. To commit your fire escape plan to memory and avoid becoming overwhelmed in case of an actual fire, regularly practice evacuating your home as quickly as possible. Hold practice fire drills that simulate both daytime and nighttime. Rehearse touching closed doors such as door handles to see if they are hot. If fire or smoke prevents escaping, educate family members on how to stay in place and seal the room as much as possible. Discuss how to signal from a window to let responders know where they are if they can’t escape. Finally practice escaping by crawling low to avoid smoke.he body content of your post goes here. To edit this text, click on it and delete this default text and start typing your own or paste your own from a different source.