What is the most important part of fire safety planning?

What is the most important part of fire safety planning?

Stacy Gerlich (Fire Captain & Paramedic) gives expert video advice on: What are common household fire hazards?; How can I prevent household electrical fires?; How can I prevent household fireplace fires? and more...

When you talk about fire safety planning, we have a nice little acronym that we use. It's called EDITH, which is Emergency Drills In The Home, and what we like to do is we like to educate the population on the matter. We say that if you have children, you sit down at the kitchen table and each has a piece of paper and a pencil, and you draw out sort of the schematic of the house, and then you say, as parents, if you are in this room or in this end of the house, this is the route that you should take to get out in case of a fire and this is where were going to meet. So the preparation aspect of fire safety is tremendous, and it saves so many lives, and it helps relieve the anxiety because everybody then knows what the expectation is, and where you're going to meet up with the rest of the family should something happen in case of a fire.