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- General home fire safety
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Home fire escape plan
Key Messages
- Know what to do if a fire occurs. Whether you are a homeowner or renter you should have a home fire escape plan in place.
- Make sure you know what to do if a fire occurs. Plan how you would escape a fire in your home and practice this with your whole family.
- Households who plan ahead have a better chance of a safe escape without panic.
- Make sure you can get out of your home in an emergency. Remember, you can’t escape if you have deadlocked your doors
- Get down low and stay out of the smoke
- If it is safe, close doors to slow down the spread of fire and smoke.
- Alert other people on your way out
- Get out and stay out
- Meet at a safe place such as the letterbox out the front of your home
- Call (triple zero) from a mobile phone or a neighbour’s phone. Ask for Fire.
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Does your household know what do and where to go if there was a fire?
- Practise the two quickest ways out of every room
- Make sure they know how to exit from upstairs if your home has a second storey
- Have an agreed-upon meeting place outside - like the letterbox
- Know who will call Triple Zero (000), and how they will call if they don't have their mobile phones
Find out more at www.cfa.vic.gov.au/escape-plans
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Does your household know what do and where to go if there was a fire?
Families who are well-prepared with an escape plan are more likely to escape quickly and without panic in the event of a fire.
Find out more at www.cfa.vic.gov.au/escape-plans
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Need an activity to keep the kids busy these school holidays? How about drawing your home fire escape plan and practise it to see who can escape the quickest!
A home fire escape plan ensures your family knows exactly what to do if there's a fire.
Make sure you have a plan!
Find out how to make your plan at www.cfa.vic.gov.au/escape-plans
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Need an activity to keep the kids busy these school holidays? How about drawing your home fire escape plan and practise it to see who can escape the quickest!
A home fire escape plan ensures your family knows exactly what to do if there's a fire.
www.cfa.vic.gov.au/escape-plans
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Have you discussed with your family what you would do if there was a fire in your home?
Make sure you have a well-prepared and practised home fire escape plan. Households who plan ahead have a better chance of a safe escape without panic.
Find out how to make your plan at www.cfa.vic.gov.au/escape-plans
Twitter Post 3
Have you discussed with your family what you would do if there was a fire in your home?
Make sure you have a well-prepared and practised home fire escape plan.
Households who plan ahead have a better chance of a safe escape without panic.
www.cfa.vic.gov.au/escape-plans
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General home fire safety
Key Messages
- Know what to do if a fire occurs. Whether you are a homeowner or renter you should have a home fire escape plan in place.
- Make sure you know what to do if a fire occurs. Plan how you would escape a fire in your home and practice this with your whole family.
- Households who plan ahead have a better chance of a safe escape without panic.
- Make sure you can get out of your home in an emergency. Remember, you can’t escape if you have deadlocked your doors
- Get down low and stay out of the smoke
- If it is safe, close doors to slow down the spread of fire and smoke.
- Alert other people on your way out
- Get out and stay out
- Meet at a safe place such as the letterbox out the front of your home
- Call (triple zero) from a mobile phone or a neighbour’s phone. Ask for Fire.
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When a fire occurs in your home, know your plan.
Don't re-enter the home once you've evacuated and always call Triple Zero (000) in an emergency
Find out more at www.cfa.vic.gov.au/escape-plans
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When a fire occurs in your home, know your plan.
Don't re-enter the home once you've evacuated and always call Triple Zero (000) in an emergency.
Find out more at www.cfa.vic.gov.au/escape-plans
Download links to content below:
Get out and stay out
Key Messages
- Know what to do if a fire occurs. Whether you are a homeowner or renter you should have a home fire escape plan in place.
- Households who plan ahead have a better chance of a safe escape without panic.
- Make sure you know what to do if a fire occurs. Plan how you would escape a fire in your home and practice this with your whole family.
- Once you have got out of the house. Do not go back in. Stay Out.
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There's no snooze on a smoke alarm - when you're alerted to a fire in your home - get out and stay out.
Only working smoke alarms save lives.
Learn more about escape plans at www.cfa.vic.gov.au/escape-plans
Twitter
There's no snooze on a smoke alarm - when you're alerted to a fire in your home - get out and stay out.
Only working smoke alarms save lives.
Learn more about escape plans at www.cfa.vic.gov.au/escape-plans
Download links to content below:
Page last updated: Tuesday, 3 May 2022 4:25:17 PM