Kids don't always know the consequences of their actions and how to respond in emergencies.Ensuring your child's safety in the event of a fire is something you need to do as a parent.Teaching them fire safety and how to deal with emergency situations can help keep them safe.
Step 1: Understand the situation.
Many children don't know how to get out of a fire.If you teach them basic fire facts and tell them what to do to be safe, they will be able to protect themselves.More than half of fire-related deaths happen to children under four years old.Being a teenager increases the risk of fire injuries.Boys are more likely to be injured from fires than girls are.
Step 2: The topic needs to be handled carefully.
You want to make your child aware of the dangers of fire, but you don't want them to think it's a scary movie.You can talk one-on-one about what to do in emergencies if you talk about movies, games, and make-believe.Make sure your children know about the police and firefighters.You can reinforce the general ideas about safety by focusing on the fun, child-friendly icons.Building their understanding of fire safety is a good thing when you play firefighter with your child.
Step 3: Discuss and practice with play.
You want your child to take the topic seriously, but you don't want to scare them.If you practice escape routes around your house as part of a firefighter game, you'll be able to use them in a real emergency.
Step 4: How to escape is explained.
Tell your kids that there are two ways to get out of their room.Check the windows to make sure your kid can escape.Escape ladders and ropes can be found near windows and balconies.
Step 5: Enlighten them to be safe.
It will be difficult to navigate the house when there is a fire.You can blindfold your child.
Step 6: Songs are used.
Changing the lyrics to your child's favorite nursery rhyme could save their life.
Step 7: Explain to them about the fire alarms.
Some kids don't know what fire alarms do.Make sure your kids know how to recognize the noise of a fire, that fire alarms alert you, and that the batteries don't go flat.
Step 8: Don't let your children go back into the burning building.
They should go to the meeting point as soon as possible.
Step 9: Children can see if doors are hot.
If doors are hot, tell your kids not to open them.Children need to know not to touch hot door handles and to use a towel or cloth if they must.The cloth has the ability to double up for face and respiratory protection.
Step 10: Inform them that stop, drop and roll.
If they are on fire, teach them to crawl on the floor.It only makes it worse if you tell your kids not to run if they are on fire.
Step 11: Go over what they know on fire safety every month.
Step 12: A field trip should be organized.
You can book an appointment by calling your local fire brigade.Many children are scared of firefighters, so this is a great opportunity for them.If firefighters call to a fire, you might have to cancel your appointment.
Step 13: You can run a fire safety competition.
It's a good idea to have your kids do a poster or essay about fire safety.They should cover how to escape and what to do in a fire.
Step 14: Read them stories.
Many of the great fire safety books will be in your library.No Dragons for Tea: Fire Safety for Kids is one of the books you should read.Fire!Home safety.
Step 15: You can make red the color of the week.
There are many fire related things that are red.Get them to draw things that are red.You can give them a red reward to keep the red theme going.
Step 16: Show them how to escape.
They can point out the fire exits.Tell them that there are fire exit signs everywhere.
Step 17: Some games to play.
Get your kids to run around, crawl on the floor and cover their faces.Stay low and go is a popular game.
Step 18: It's a good idea to practice escaping.
Schools are different even if kids know how to evacuate.Adding obstacles and blocking off exits can make a fire emergency more difficult.The kids should be aware of the emergency assembly area.
Step 19: The fire safety equipment should be covered.
You can teach your kids about fire safety.You can get them to check the equipment around the school to make sure it's working.
Step 20: Kids can escape from fires.
Most fire-related deaths come from smoke inhalation, not burns, so get them to understand that.Tell them that a person can be overcome by fumes in a few minutes.They have to crawl on the floor to escape the house.If there is no escape route available, they will have to use a window or ladder and wait for the firefighters.Don't hide, go outside, stop, drop and roll, fall and crawl, do not play with matches.
Step 21: They should call the Emergency Services.
Don't wait until they're older to call in an emergency.If they are old enough, tell them that the international standard emergency number for mobile phones is 112.
Step 22: Discuss with your children what to do in case of a fire.
Don't be too serious, but serious enough to get your point across.Kids should know that smoke is very dangerous and that they should cover their mouth with a damp cloth.They should crawl on the floor when smoke rises.They should be taught how to use fire ladders, fire hoses, and fire blankets.Touch the door to see if it's hot.If it is hot, find another exit.Don't travel in an elevator and know how to locate a Fire Exit sign.The serious danger of matches should be enforced.Never to go back inside and never to make a phone call to Emergency Services when you're evacuated.If your clothes catch on fire, stop, drop, and roll.
Step 23: Don't practice until your kids know it.
Give them a time limit to get out and use a stopwatch.Use your teaching methods to make a game.Kids are more likely to remember what to do in a fire if you do it with them.Children like Stop, Drop and Roll.
Step 24: Teaching them how to avoid fire emergencies is important.
They should not assume they already know something.Children are not allowed to play with matches and lighters.Wear long sleeves and cover pots in the kitchen.Change smoke alarm batteries every year.When there is a fire, go to the meeting place.