Fire Safety Tips

Keep in mind these important fire safety tips for you and your family from the National Fire Protection Agency:

• Discuss what to do in an evacuation. When told by officials, go immediately to a shelter as instructed or to the home of a friend or relative who lives out of the area. Find out about your local shelters beforehand.
• Know evacuation routes. Pre-establish several different routes in case certain roads are blocked or closed.
• Family members can become separated during an emergency. Be prepared by creating a plan for how to reach one another. Establish an out-of-area contact (such as a relative or friend) who can coordinate family members' locations and information should you become separated. Make sure children learn the phone numbers and addresses, and know the emergency plans.
• Quiz children every six months so they remember what to do, where to go, and whom to call in an emergency.
• Decide how to take care of pets. Pets are not allowed in places where food is served, so you will need to have a place to take your pets if you have to go to a shelter.
• Post emergency phone numbers (fire, police, ambulance, etc.) by the phone.
• Assemble a family disaster supplies kit (PDF, 257 KB) and keep a smaller one in the trunk of your vehicle.

For more information visit: http:nfpa.org.