Hi Kids

Lieutenant Moe, offers the following guidelines to help you and your family, develop a home escape plan and practice it together:

• Gather your family together and use the grid on the next page to draw a floor plan of your home. Mark all windows and doors.  Click here to use an Example Floor Plan as a guide.

• Plan two ways out of every room. The first way out should be the door; the second way out could be a window. Make sure windows open easily. If you live in a high-rise building, use the stairs, never the elevator, in case of fire.

• Agree on an outside meeting place in front of the home where every member of your household will meet. Mark your meeting place on your escape plan.

• Install smoke alarms in or near every sleeping area in your home. Test your smoke alarms once a month and replace alarm batteries each year. Make sure everyone knows the sound of the alarm and how to react immediately whenever it sounds.

• Practice your escape plan at least twice a year.

• Finally: Once out, stay out! Once you are out of your home, call the fire department from the nearest outside phone. Never go back inside a burning building.

Thank you, for participating in "The Great Escape". We hope you never have to use it; but planning and practicing your home escape plan may one day save the lives of you and your loved ones.