Evacuation Plan

To ensure that your family has an effective emergency evacuation plan, follow the steps outlined below.

• Draw an evacuation plan involving all the occupants of the house. Take a tour of your residence and locate all the exits and all the possible routes. For each room, determine two accessible exits, such as a door and a window.

• Install smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, and check them regularly. For detectors without a sealed ten-year battery, it is important to change the battery at least every six months.
• For maximum security, install photoelectric and ionization detectors inside or near each bedroom and on each floor of the house, including the basement.
• Choose a meeting point outside, for example in front of a neighboring residence, a lamp post or a mailbox located at a safe distance and in front of your house, where everyone can go after the evacuation.

• Ask each person to remember to call the fire department once outside the home.
• Do not go back inside. Never let anyone, and under no circumstances, return to a burning building. If someone is missing, notify the fire department when you call them. Firefighters are trained and equipped to carry out rescues.