Escape Plan: Planning to Save Your Life

How to Make Your Plan and Get Out Alive!

Take everyone into account

Make your fire action plan with everyone in your household, especially children and elderly or disabled people.

Your best escape route is your normal way in and out of your home

Tell everyone in your household where you keep your door and window keys

You can be safe as well as secure if you make sure that anyone who needs to get out in an emergency can easily open doors and windows.

When it’s safer to stay in your home

If your escape route is blocked, it may be safer to stay put and protect yourself until the Fire Service arrives. Find a suitable room right now. Choose one with a window that opens and, if possible, a phone so that you can call 999
If the stairs in a block of flats are blocked by fire or smoke, don’t use the lift. Stay calm and go back inside your flat – it’s designed to keep fire out
Close the door and follow the safety steps on this page
If your escape route is blocked, it may be safer to stay put and protect yourself until the Fire Service arrives

To contact Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service for free advice on making your fire action plan, click here

Always include children and elderly and disabled people;
Choose the best escape route and another way out, and keep them clear;
Tell everyone where the door and window keys are; and
If you can’t escape, it’s safer to stay in your home, protect yourself, and wait to be rescued.

Fit smoke alarms on each floor level in your home

If you don’t have working smoke alarms in your home, your chances of surviving a fire when you are asleep are almost zero.
Test your smoke alarms every month and replace batteries once a year.
If your smoke alarms keep going off, don’t disconnect them. They are only doing their job. Ask the Fire Service about the best place to put them so that they are not set off by steam form cooking or showers.

Keep doors closed at night