Smoke Detectors- Fire Safety in your House
- Julie Coughlin
- Jun 24
- 2 min read
Overall Safety tips
Practice your own family fire drills, have multiple routes to escape the house and a safe meeting place in front of your house at a previously designated meeting place. Also practice calling 911 with your kids and practice different emergency scenarios with them on an actual phone in your home. Check your batteries and always put new batteries in immediately if they start to chirp or beep. Have a go bag with important info, medications, keys, phone charger, clothes ready in case of a fire that you can grab and get out the door FAST!
Gun Safety is more complex now for families and kids. Talk to your kids about guns and what to do if and when they are around them. What to do if a friend shows them a gun or tells them something they want to do with a gun. The tough part is as a Parent, asking other parents if they have guns and ammo in their house, where and how they are stored. Especially if your child is spending the night or spending a lot of time there. Also ask about other siblings during sleepovers and have a safe phrase you and your child have in case they need to leave and don't want to embarrass themselves or have to have to look less cool to their friends. If you have a child coming over, volunteer any gun information of your own with the other parents first.
Stranger Danger is better learned as "tricky people", some strangers like ones in uniform- firefighters and police officers can be helpful if a child is lost and needs help. It's the Tricky people who try to get you to come with them or give you presents that kids needs to be aware of.
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