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Family Escape Plan for Fire | Testing Smoke Detectors | Love Your Family Safety Challenge

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Channel: Homemaking with Denise · 2018 · Howto & Style

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In this episode of My Housewife Life I participate in Love Your Family Safety Challenge by creating a family escape plan for fire  and go about testing smoke detectors in my home. The challenge is hosted by This and That with Denise Jordan.

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Check out the playlist for Love Your Family Safety Challenge so you can see what other creators came up with for their home and feel free to add  your video. Here's the link to add your video to the playlist:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLY9dO87sGSw6M0E-Y2gmms-B4fR106By&jct=qv9k4LULPttG4YqxJqSx3_5h87YkBg.  If you have trouble, just contact me.

My video telling about our grease fire: https://youtu.be/Sw0gx_KHS-8.

Love Your Family Safety Challenge Open Collab invitation video is linked here: https://youtu.be/OFAjHv03gSQ.

National Fire Protection Association on family escape plan for fire at https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Education/By-topic/Safety-in-the-home/Escape-planning/Basic-fire-escape-planning.

National Fire Prevention Association info: https://www.nfpa.org/-/media/Files/News-and-Research/Fire-statistics/Fact-sheets/HomesFactSHeet.pdf

Allstate Resources on Smoke Detectors: https://blog.allstate.com/test-smoke-detectors/.

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Published on Jun 20, 2017

Video transcript:
If your house was on fire and you needed to get out would your family know what to do? When was the last time you checked your smoke detectors? In this video, I’m answering those questions for my family and sharing some information that just might help you keep your family safe.  If you want to learn more about cooking, cleaning, laundry, planning, and health and beauty – then consider subscribing but definitely check out the show notes and the links below because that’s where I’ll put the information about the products I used in today’s video. 

In case you’re wondering why I started this challenge, we had a grease fire in the kitchen and after everything was sorted out, it turned out both our smoke alarms were defective. Then I wondered how many other people might have this same problem. I put on my community health nursing hat and did a little research where I learned that 3 out of 5 home fire-related deaths were associated with no working smoke alarms in the home. I made a preliminary video about our kitchen grease fire and another video with more information about home fire alarms, fire safety, and issued the Love Your Family Safety Challenge. The videos are linked above so and you can view them at your leisure.  

The challenge required you to do two things – video tape yourself testing your smoke alarm – that means causing it to sound off and create a family escape plan.  

Here’s our family escape plan – there’s just me and the hubby here and we have a two story house.  If a fire breaks out on the first floor, and we are upstairs and our exit is blocked, the plan is to go out one of the front bedroom windows onto the roof and drop down into the front yard.  If we are on the first floor, we’ll exit out either the front, back, or garage door depending on where the fire is. If our grandchildren are here visiting, my husband would check on whoever’s using the office bedroom and I’d check on the girls’ bedroom. That’s just to keep us from running around like chickens but, once we exit the house, the plan is to meet out front in the drive way or if the situation warrants, across the street from the driveway. 

If you want more information about creating a family escape plan for fire for your family, check out the links for the National Fire Protection Association above. You can download escape planning safety tip sheets and other worksheets to help you create family escape routes, practice fire drills, and more. They’ve got great information so do check them out.   

One more thing – you should also have a portable fire extinguisher and everyone should know how to use it. Keep it where it is accessible.
  
Here’s my question to you: What other ideas do you have to improve fire safety in the home? You might have something to share that’s just right for another viewer. Let’s talk about it in the comments section. In the meantime, I'd like to remind you that fighting fires is everyone’s fight. 

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