How to Escape from a Second Story Fire

12/26/2021 (Permalink)

If your home is damaged from fire damage, trust the experts at SERVPRO of Fayette/S. Fulton Counties to make it "Like it never happened."

1. Plan a fire escape and practice fire escape drills with your family, in preparation for a possible emergency. Fire escape ladders are available, relatively inexpensively, that can be hung out the window of a two story home, and are safer than the sheet method mentioned below. The "First Alert 2-story Escape Ladder" is only about $42.00 brand new from Walmart or other retailer.

2. Place a few fire extinguishers throughout the house. However, fire extinguishers should be calibrated on a regular schedule per the instructions that come with the extinguisher.

3. Immediately close the door and stuff a blanket/towel along the bottom so that the smoke can not get through.

4. If you have a phone near you, then call the fire emergency service, or if you don't then run to the window and shout "Help!"

5. Stay low on the floor for better air. There is more smoke higher up.

6. Get two sheets and tie them together as quickly but as tightly as possible

7. Push your bed against the wall next to the window and tie one end of the two sheets.

8. Lower yourself down the building using the sheets.

9. When you get down on the ground immediately inform emergency services.