Summer's the Perfect Time for Fire Safety!

7/9/2020 (Permalink)

Summer's the time to teach your children about fire safety.

No season is a good season for a house fire, but summer is perhaps the best season to educate your family on fire safety. With kids out of school and families spending more time at home (especially with the current quarantine situation), there’s no reason why you shouldn’t take an hour or two to talk fire safety in the evening. After all, you’ve probably talked about just about everything else under the sun, and finished everything on Netflix – what else do you have to do to kill the time?

Your fire safety discussion doesn’t have to be a long, involved ordeal. In fact, there are just a few basic things that everyone in your home needs to know to stay as safe as possible in the unfortunate event of a house fire:

• Everyone, especially children, should know exactly what your smoke and carbon monoxide alarms sound like when they go off;
• Everyone should also know what to do when those alarms go off;
• Teach each member of your family two ways to escape from each room – usually a door and a window;
• Establish a designated meeting point and communication plan so everyone knows what to do when they get out of the house;
• Run fire drills at your home at least twice per year;
• Show children how to dial 9-1-1 and teach them what to say to an operator;
• Finally, make sure everyone knows how to stop, drop and roll!

Sure, going over all of this information is no one’s ideal summer evening, but it could save someone’s life. Plus, it can be kind of fun to pretend to stop, drop and roll if you get into the spirit of what you’re doing!

And if you do have to deal with a home fire, don’t forget that we’re here to help at SERVPRO of West Seneca/Lancaster – just call 716-674-1103 when you need us.