ESCAPE PLANNING

•  Designate a safe meeting place outside your home everyone can get to after a fire.
• Use graph paper to draw a floor plan of your home and show two ways out of each room.
• Make sure each family member is aware of escape options from each room.
• Practice your family escape plan twice each year.
• Walk through your home periodically and inspect all exits and escape routes.

DID YOU KNOW?

• More than 80 percent of families have not practiced home fire drills.
• Experts estimate you have as little as two minutes to safely escape your home once the smoke alarm sounds.
• Working smoke alarms provide the valuable seconds needed to escape a burning residence.