MORE PEOPLE die from
home fires than any other
kind.

Hundreds of Canadians perish
every year in home fires because
they do not know what to do.

Hopefully your family has
prepared and practised a home
fire escape plan.

HOT TIPS

by North Vancouver
District Fire Department

route is not safe.

Your family may have several
alternative routes to take in case
of fire. Make sure you practise all

Fast actions are needed in a fire
and trained responses help those
happen.

If your family does not have a
home fire plan, contact the
District of North Vancouver Fire
Services non-emergency number,
980-7575, or your local fire
department for information and
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One important part of such a of them as much as possible. your home.
plan is locating and learning to
use emergency ways out and

" alternative routes to safety.

District of North Vancouver
Fire Services suggests that you
practise using emergency exits to
make sure they are usable.

It is too late to discover your
window is stuck shut and won’t
open when a fire breaks out.

_ In most homes and apartments,
emergency exits are usually win-
_ dows or stairways.

Make ‘sure windows can ‘be

‘opened and that screens and storm
windows.can be removed from the
‘inside.

- Make sure children can operate
Jocks and know how to get cut
quickly, not to wait for you.

‘ If they cannot get out, they

- should know that they have to
wait at the window for help where
the firefighters can see them.

Make sure everybody learns to
stay low, and crawl to the nearest

“exit.

If bedrooms are on the second
floor, provide escape ladders.
‘.Most fatal home fires begin at

_: night while'we are asleep.
~Although most. people plan to
tie bedsheets together to form a
rope, there is usually not enough. :
_time to do that in a fire.

'. Jumping from ~second-storey

’.. windows can cause severe injuries.

If you live in an apartment or
condominium and your enclosed
stairways are yout emergency ex-
its, practise finding these in the
dark.

_ First, count: the ‘number of
doors from your room to the exit
stairway.

You ‘probably will not be able
to see the exit sign above the door . : ate f
through smoke. .

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stairway doors open; once smoke
enters the. stairway, your escape

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