What should I teach my children about fire safety?

What should I teach my children about fire safety?

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...

Children are great because they love to learn, they think it's fun, so you can kind of make fire safety interesting and educating for them. You should talk about fire and if there's a fire in the house, then they should stay low to the ground because of the fact that there's usually cleaner and fresher air closer to the floor. Secondly is talk to your children about the stop, drop, and roll if they already catch on fire. Rather than running through the house frantically, stop, drop to the floor, and just roll back and forth, and then that way if they are on fire or their clothing is on fire, it will help suffocate that and smother the flames. But kids are great, they want the information, so you can make learning about fire safety sort of a game. And when you incorporate exit drills in the home, when you incorporate stop, drop and roll, then what they'll do conversely is usually take it to school, and then tell their friends, and then it will become sort of an educational period for them.