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Home SAFE Home: Home Safety - Your Home

happy fire extinguisherTo Do List

  • Distribute the Issues Education sheet.
  • Discuss the importance of Smoke Detectors- Use the flyer in the Home SAFE Home Tool Kit on Smoke Detector Tips.
  • Check out the Escaping a Fire Tip sheet in the Tool Kit.
  • Break the children into groups and assign them a room to draw in a house. Have them identify possible places or problems where fires could start, i.e. the basement with a pile or rags, or the bedroom with overloaded sockets. Have each group present their drawing and explain the possible dangers.
  • Have Students draw a plan of their house and note escape routes for each room. The Sparky the Dog website http://www.sparky.org/family.html provides an escape planning grid which you can download, as well as, a Home Safety Checklist.
  • Ask the children to create a Home SAFE Home Safety Check List to bring home.
  • Tell the students to take the tip sheets and their escape plan home to share with their family.

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