Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 11 of 12 Your Escape Plan, more than eighty percent of the fires here in the Unite States occur in homes. Our familys are very familiar with the fire drills, that occur in Schools and some Offices, but too few families have a fire escape plan for their home. Baker Home Commercial Properties Inspections and Consulting urges you and your family to make a Fire Escape plan, and to practice fire drills in your home.

By working on a Fire Escape Plan together, you and your family will then know the safest way out of your home. A very useful tip; after you and your family have completed your Fire Escape Plan, give a copy of the plan to each member of your family. And also post a copy of it in a common area in your home so everyone can look at it every day.

Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 11 of 12 Your Escape Plan, its always a good idea to plan two ways out of each room of your home, if your able to do so. Identify each as the first way out and the second way out. An example is, the first way out should be a door, and the second way out could be a window. Be sure every member of your family, can open the windows easily. Not all rooms have two exits, so pleasehave every member of your family Practice your home's Fire Escape Plan. If you have a two story home, plan your escape through a window onto a porch roof, if at all possible. If a escape ladder should need to be used, be sure everyone in the house hold knows how to use it. Your kids should only practice this only with you there.

Be sure to have a pleace where your family members should meet up at outside your home, and mark it on your Fire Escape Plan. Here are some good meeting places, a neighbour's house, a telephone pole or a tree away from your home. Be sure eveyone understands the planned escape routes.

Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 11 of 12 Your Escape Plan, you should have smoke alarms outside each bedroom, and on each additional level of your home. Sleep with your bedroom door closed. A closed door will help keep smoke out of the room, and give you some time to escape. Its also a very good idea to have a smoke alarm inside each bedroom. If you do suspect theres a fire, be sure to touch the door surface before opening any door, but do not touch the door handle first, it very will could be hot enough to burn your hand. Its hightly recommended that you should test all smoke alarms in your home, on a monthly basis. And the batteries should be replaced at least twice a year. You should also replace all smoke alarms over ten years old, at that age, they are considered outdated.

You and your family should be sure to practice your family's escape plan, if anyone should see smoke on their way out, they should use the secondary way out. If anyone should have to escape through smoke, be sure to crawl low under it where they will find the air to be cleaner. Along with practicing your primary escape route, also practice your second way out as well.      

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