72Hours com Fire Emergency User Guide

72Hours com Fire Emergency

PREPARE

• Make a Fire Escape Plan with your family and practice it twice a year.
• Make an Emergency Supply Kit: Having enough food, water, and other supplies ready is important in case of an emergency.
• 72HRS offers various Emergency Kits. Choose one that best suits your needs.
• Install smoke alarms on every level of your home, inside bedrooms, and outside sleeping areas.
• Establish a family emergency communications plan and ensure all household members know who to contact if they cannot find one another.
• Teach household members to STOP, DROP and
• ROLL if their clothes catch on fire.
• Teach children what smoke alarms sound like and what to do when they hear one.

AFTER

• Follow directions from local authorities and first responder personnel.
• Give first aid where needed; cool and cover burns to reduce the chance of further injury or infection.
• Inform friends and family that you’re safe.
• Stay out of fire-damaged homes until local fire authorities say it is safe to re-enter.
• Discard any food that has been exposed to heat, smoke, or soot.
• Keep pets under your direct control and watch them closely.

DURING

• DROP to the ground, cover your face if possible, and
• ROLL over and over until the flames are out.
• Remember to GET OUT, STAY OUT and CALL 9-1-1 or your local emergency phone number.
• Yell “Fire!” several times and go outside immediately. If you live in a building with elevators, use the stairs. Leave all your things behind and save yourself.
• If you must escape through smoke, get low and go under the smoke to your exit. Close doors behind you.
• If closed doors or handles are warm or smoke blocks your primary escape route, use your second way out. Never open doors that are warm to the touch.
• If smoke, heat, or flames block your exit routes, stay in the room with doors closed.
• Place a wet towel under the door, open a window, and wave a brightly coloured cloth or flashlight to signal for help.

IMPORTANT FACTS

• The best time to prepare for any disaster is before it happens.
• Running will only make fire flames grow faster – Stop, Drop & Roll.
• If flames touch your skin, cool the burn for 3-5 minutes and seek medical attention.
• Pay attention to how you and your loved ones are handling stress after a fire.

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