Sit down with your family and plan two ways out of every room, especially bedrooms. Make special arrangements for children, older adults, and people with disabilities.
Have a meeting place already planned and mark it on your plan.
Check your smoke detectors on the first day of every month. Replace your smoke detector batteries once a year.
Practice the plan twice a year, one time with each of the two ways out.
In case of fire:
Check doors for heat and smoke before using. Feel the door with the back of your hand. If it is hot, go to the second way out.
Crawl low under smoke. Get on your hands and knees and crawl quickly to the exit.
Get out fast. And stay out! Go to the meeting place. Do not go back in for any reason. Call the Fire Department from a neighbor’s house.
For more information contact the Fire Safety Division at (561) 243-7425.
