20 - Friday, July $3. 1990 - North Shore News

Every home should have an emergency escape plan

YOU'RE ALWAYS careful about fire safety.

You never smoke in bed You are cautious about electrical and heating appliances, follow manu- facturers’ instructions for use and never icave them unattended. You're careful when cooking. You have smoke detectors, test them every month and replace batteries every year.

But suppose some night, very late when your family is sleeping, a fire starts in your home. The District of North Vancouver Fire Department would like you to consider what might happen.

Somehow a small fire has started. It smoulders for a while, but soon your smoke detectors begin to sound.

You awake to a loud, harsh alarm: the smoke detector! As you awaken you realize you can smell the smoke and hear faint crackling sounds.

Keeping low, you roll out of bed into a crouching position on the floor. You remember reading that the air in the upper half or two-thirds of the room is fill of poison gases and other smoke products. So you stay low and crawl toward the door.

Before you open it you reach your hand up and feel the door and knob. They are hot so you know the fire is close by and you can’t go out that way.

You shout to other members of your family to alert them; each calls back that they are doing fine

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and heading for their alternative exits.

You turn and crawl toward your bedroom window. When you get to the window you pull up the folding escape ladder you bought at the neighborhood hardware store fast fall when you noticed with surprise its low price.

You reach up, open the window and lift the lightweight ladder, dropping its end out of the win- dow as the top end remains firmly linked over the window sill. You know your daughter will get out of her room the same way, while your two sons will crawl out their window onto the porch roof and climb down by themselves.

You hoist yourself through the window and climb down the lad- der. You head straight for the end of your driveway near the street where you have all planned to meet in case of fire.

Your sons are running up as

you approach the spot. Your teenage daughter is walking toward you, too, trying to look casual. She volunteers to go next door to call the fire department.

Your youngest son remembers his pet iguana and is disappointed, wanting to go back inside and rescue it, but he says sadly that he knows he can't. Still, he watches his bedroom window intently and says he hopes his pet will be okay.

Your daughter is back in a few minites and reports that the call has been made. Soon you hear the sound of fire sirens as they ap- proach. One by one the fire trucks and the officers’ cars pull up near your house.

As the firefighters go about their business, you can see the fire through the windows, and you're grateful that you and your family are safely outside.

That’s exactly how it would happen at your house, isn’t it?

If you’re not sure your family would get out as smoothly, why not sit down together tonight and work on an emergency escape plan, including alternative escape routes and a meeting place?

If you would like some helpful advice, call your loca! fire department or the District of North Vancouver Fire Department Non-emergency phone number, 980-7575. Don’t leave it to chance.

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¢ Ornamental Grasses and Bamboos, Sat. Aug. 25, 1-3 p.m. Alex Downie, VanDusen horticuiturist will show slides and tour the garden collection while discussing types, uses and cultural requirements of these popular plants.

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