FIRE SURVIVAL

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               A practiced escape plan is essential for a quick and orderly evacuation. Practice your plan with all household members at least twice a year. 

1. Draw a floor plan and find two exits

• Use graph paper to sketch a map of every level of your home, marking all doors and windows.
• For each room, identify a primary and a secondary escape route.
• If you have a two-story home, invest in a UL-approved collapsible escape ladder for second-story rooms.
• Make sure all windows and doors leading outside open easily.
• If you have security bars on windows or doors, ensure they have quick-release latches that everyone can operate. 

 2. Establish an outdoor meeting place

• Choose a safe, easily identifiable landmark in front of your home, such as a large tree or mailbox.
• Make sure everyone knows to go directly to the meeting place after exiting and stay there.
• Once outside, stay out. Never re-enter a burning building for any reason. 

3. Practice your fire drill

• Conduct drills at different times of the day and night to ensure everyone can escape, even while sleeping.
• When practicing, have everyone crawl low under the "smoke," as the air is cleaner near the floor.
• Practice testing doors with the back of your hand. If a doorknob is hot, do not open it and use your second escape route.
• If you have young children, assign an adult to help wake them and carry them to safety.
• Make sure a responsible adult knows how to call 911 or the local emergency number from a neighbor's phone. 

What to do during a fire

Even with the best plan, you must know how to react in the moment. If the alarm sounds, evacuate immediately, crawling low if there is smoke, and call for help from a safe location. Feel doors for heat before opening, use alternate routes if necessary, and close doors behind you to slow the fire. If trapped, stay in a closed room, seal vents and cracks, call 911 with your location, and signal from a window if possible. If your clothes catch fire, remember to stop, drop, and roll to extinguish the flames. 

FIRE EVACUATION MASK

    Wrap the fore blanket around you, stay low, put on your Fire evacuation mask, get every one out of the house. Follow your evacuation plan.

Can Save Your Life in a Fire Evacuation – In most serious fires, escape is priority number one. Wrap up in this blanket (47.2" H x 70.8" W) to shield from flames and save your life. 

Non-Toxic – These blankets are made from a fiberglass cloth that works for adults, kids, and pets—perfect to pair with your extinguisher!

Ideal for Use by Children – Sometimes emergencies happen when adults aren't around. Unlike extinguishers, the Ready Hour Fire Blanket has no pins or levers to fiddle with – children can and have used these to put out fires all on their own!

The Blanket Puts Out Kitchen Fires in Seconds – Nearly half of all home fires start in the kitchen. Ready Hour Fire Blankets are the most effective way to stop these deadly grease and liquid blazes in an instant.

Every one in your house should have their own fire blanket and fire evacuation mask.