As you teach your child,  remember that Fire Smart Kids:

• Know how to STOP, DROP, and ROLL as well as Smother, Remove, and call a Doctor.
• Know how to put out burning clothes on another child if they are the only ones around.
• Know what to do in a real fire, to get out and stay out.
• Know that they should never hide from a fire, to get out of the house instead.
• Know what firemen look like with their smoke masks and coats;  not afraid of them when they see them.
• Know two ways to escape from every room and have practiced it.
• Know not to wait for anything.  Just get out!
• Know that they never use an elevator during a fire.
• Know that where you see smoke to use another exit.
• Know that if you have to escape through smoke to crawl low and that the best air is near the floor.
• Know how to call the fire department once they are outside.
• Know how to tell the fire department where the fire is.
• Know how many people are in their family and where they are.
• Know that there is a special meeting place when they leave a burning building.
• Know the difference between a low battery alarm and a real smoke detector alarm sound.
• Know that they are not to play with matches and lighters or cooking/heating devices.
• Know that they should tell a grown-up if they see other children playing with matches and starting fires.
• Know what the word HOT means.
• Know the correct way to pull an electrical cord from the outlet.
• Know that if they are young, not to touch things that Mom and Dad have shown not to touch.
• Know what good fires are and what bad fires are.
• Knows how to use safety ladders to escape from their upstairs bedrooms.
• Knows to feel the door before they open it.
• Know that in a real fire (not like ones on TV) are very very dark and not to panic as they are getting out of the house.