Home Escape Plans

Develop a home escape plan today, it could save your life!

• Install working smoke alarms on every storey and outside all sleeping areas of your home. It's the law!
• Develop a home fire escape plan.
• Know what to do when the smoke alarm sounds. Sit down with everyone in your household and discuss how each person will get out of the home in a fire.
• Practice your escape plan with everyone in your home.
• Make sure everyone can get out quickly.
• Make sure everyone knows two ways out of each room, if possible.
• If the door of a room is blocked by smoke or fire, discuss an alternate escape route such as a window. Make sure all windows open easily. Security bars on windows should have quick-releasing devices so they can be easily removed.

Help those who need it!

• Determine who will be responsible for helping young children, older adults, people with disabilities or anyone else who may need assistance.
• Get low and go under the smoke to the nearest safe exit.
• Most fire deaths are the result of smoke inhalation.
• Choose a meeting place outside, a safe distance from your home.
• A tree, streetlight or a neighbour's home are all good choices. In case of fire, everyone should go directly to this meeting place to be accounted for.

Get out and stay out!

Never re-enter a burning building. Once you have safely escaped, call the fire department from outside your home using a cell phone or from a neighbour's home.

For more information on Home Escape Plans visit

https://www.nfpa.org/-/media/Files/Public-Education/Resources/Safety-tip-sheets/Canada/CanadaEscapePlanning.ashx