NYS Department of State Kids' Room
Escape Rules in a Fire
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[Always sleep with your bedroom door closed.] [Boy calling out that he is okay.]If there is a fire, keep calm.
Don't panic.
Let your family
know you
are all right.

[Don't hide under the bed.] [Don't hide in the closet.]

Test the door
before you open
it by feeling
it with the
back of your
hand near the
top of the door.		 [Child feeling door with back of hand.]
[Child hanging onto window sill and about to drop to ground.] If the door is cool, open it carefully.
If the door is hot,
do NOT
open it.
Use the second way out: the window.

Firefighters found these children who couldn't get out by themselves. They were not hiding. [Hershey and a firefighter rescued the children.]

[Child crawling under smoke and heat.] If your room is filled with smoke, keep down close to the floor where you can breathe more easily.
NEVER
re-enter a burning building.
Here's a song about how you've got to crawl low under smoke.

Assemble at the meeting place the family picked outside the house, and then call the fire department or 911. [The family is safe thanks to E.D.I.T.H.]

Hershey says, "Let's sing a song about 2 WAYS OUT or click on my paw print below to learn about High-Rise Fires."

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