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 assistance in developing a plan for

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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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