Our 3-Step Escape Plan

  • First Escape Route
  • Second Escape Route
  • Meeting Place
Notes

Use this space to note any additional information about your escape plan, i.e. who will assist

Your checklist

  • Get low

    Smoke is poisonous and more deadly than flames.

    If you breathe smoke for more than a few breaths it can kill you.

  • Be fast

    A house fire can kill you in less than three minutes.

    Don't spend time trying to save possessions.

  • Close doors

    A closed door buys you time.

    It slows down the spread of fire, giving you more time to get to safety.

  • Get out - stay out!

    People have died by going back into a fire.

    Don't leave the meeting place to go back inside for any reason.

Call emergency services as soon as you are out and safe. Ask for FIRE.

Clearly state your address and let the operator know it anyone is still inside or has not made it to the safe meeting place.

Emergency call 111 Emergency text 111

Fire breaks

A firebreak is defined in section 6 of the Act as “a natural or an artificial physical barrier against the spread of fire from or into any area of continuous flammable material.

As a risk reduction tool, a firebreak can provide a window of opportunity for suppression and evacuation. It also provides time for Fire and Emergency to deploy its resources to stop/reduce the speed and spread of wildfire and to undertake other firefighting strategies.

We use a science based assessment system to decide if a firebreak or someother intervention is the best way to manage the risk in a particlare location. Each assessment has an assessor, peer reivew and final decision steps to ensure our intervention is justifiable and our decision is defendable.