All of your family needs to understand the Escape Plan and to practise escaping from each room in the house by the two exits.

Most fires start in kitchens (25%), bedrooms (13%), and lounges and family rooms (16%). Make sure your family practises escaping from these rooms every three to six months.

Remember, you need to:

• Have working smoke alarms
• Know two ways out of every room if possible
• Make sure that doors and windows needed for escape are clear and easy to open, and that there is a safe way to reach the ground from upper floors
• Keep keys in deadlocks at all times when home
• Have an outside meeting place, such as a letterbox or a special tree
• Make special plans for young children and older people.

Remember...

Get Out! Stay Out!