Surviving a house fire will depend on your preparation, awareness, and escape plan. Please consider these basic safety and prevention tips to safeguard your home:
Have a Plan
- Review all the ways to exit each room of your home.
- Develop a fire escape plan with family members.
- Pick a meeting place outside your home.
- Practice your plan with small children regularly.
Safeguard your Home
- Install smoke alarms outside the bedrooms on each level.
- Test the smoke alarms once a month.
- Replace the batteries in the smoke alarms at least once a year. Try to replace them when you change your clocks twice a year!
- Install a residential sprinkler system.
- Make sure safety bars on windows can be opened from inside your home.
- Learn how and when to use a fire extinguisher.
Get out Safely
- Escape the dwelling and go to your meeting place.
- No one should ever go back inside for any reason.