Escape Planning
- According to an NFPA survey, only one-third of Americans have both developed and practiced a home fire escape plan.
- Almost three-quarters of Americans do have an escape plan; however, less than half actually practiced it.
- One-third of Americans households who made and estimate they thought they would have at least 6 minutes before a fire in their home would become life threatening. The time available is often less. And only 8% said their first thought on hearing a smoke alarm would be to get out!
Smoke Alarms - Almost two-thirds (62%) of reported home fire deaths resulted from fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.
- Working smoke alarms cut the risk of dying in reported home fires in half.
- In fires considered large enough to activate the smoke alarm, hardwired alarms operated 92% of the time, while battery powered alarms operated only 77% of the time.
“Reproduced from NFPA’s Fire Prevention Week website, www.firepreventionweek.org. ©2012 NFPA.
Local fire stations will be holding an Open House during fire prevention week. Some that we know about are:
Coppell Fire Station #3, on Parkway Blvd. – Sunday, Oct. 7 from 1pm-5pm
Plano – Thursday, Oct. 11 from 6:30pm-8pm
Lewisville – Central Sta. on Valley Pkwy – Saturday, Oct. 6 from 10am-3pm
Flower Mound – Central Sta. on Forums Dr. – Saturday, Oct. 13 from 10am-2pm
