This is one of the “ Less Fun” posts that you may see this year but an important one.

If you should have the sad event of having a house fire, do you have an escape plan?

If you were to wake up in the middle of the night to hear either your smoke detectors or carbon monoxide detectors all going off ( because they are of course all plugged in, charged, and not yanked out of the ceiling) you would have a plan of where to go and how to exit.

Not only would you have a plan, but your family members would also know how to escape the home.

Important also to have a conversation with any children that the adults would be the only ones to go and find any pets and that their only job is to get themselves out of the house and to a safe designated meeting spot.

Where is the meeting spot? Make sure to pick a location that is close enough to safely run to in the middle of the night yet far enough from the house so that the fear of fire getting too close is not a concern.

Even if you come up with a plan when you first move into your home, make sure to refresh everyone’s memory of the plan every year or two.

Hoping that this post reaches many as it is so important.

Tanya

“Plans are nothing; planning is everything. “

Dwight D. Eisenhower