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CHAPTER 4 FIRE SAFETY
Escape

The smoke alarm is bleeping. Your house is on fire! Can you find a safe way out?

YES NO

Make sure everyone in the house
Make sure everyone in the house knows that there is a fire.
knows there is a fire.
• Check the door handle with the back of your hand,
if it is hot DO NOT open (follow stage 2
in the next column), if it is cool escape
and close the doors on your way out.

• Leave the house.
• Dial 999 to call the Fire & Rescue If you are trapped in one room by
Service from a neighbour's telephone, flames or smoke, or if the door
call box or mobile telephone. handle is hot, block the gaps around
the door with something soft to
• Stay out of the house. stop smoke getting in.

If you cannot get out, stay by the window
SAFE AND and shout ‘FIRE!’ to attract the attention of

SOUND! someone who can call the Fire & Rescue
Service. Stay by the window and wait for
the Fire & Rescue Service to arrive.

Why not copy this page and place it on your fridge door so that all of your family
can understand and learn the fire escape plan?
GET OUT - CALL THE FIRE & RESCUE SERVICE OUT - STAY OUT!

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