house on fire
You’re in bed sleeping when you’re jolted awake by the blaring beeps of the smoke alarm. You smell smoke. Your mind starts racing. You hear your kids crying out for you from their bedrooms down the hall. What do you do?before I joined the fire service. It was not on my radar as a young woman, pre-kids, focused on building my career, a long-term relationship and credit score.
Home is where we should feel most safe. Most of us avoid imagining nightmarish fire scenarios, much less plan for them. A recent list by thelisted “fires/accidents” ranked near the bottom at 24th – ahead of bugs, snakes, spiders, heights and “nothing” . Could the idea of a fire happening to us be too abstract or frightening to think about, so we put it on the mental backburner?
Our homes are built differently, and we’re filling them with furniture and other stuff that looks nice but is far more toxic when it burns. That means in the case of a fire in your home, you and your family only have a minute or two to get everybody out before the fire rages out of control.
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