If the fire is on the top level of your home:

Calmly tell the big kids to but their boots on. Have them sing a song, loudly so you can hear them when you run up stairs to get the little ones.

When you get back downstairs you can all leave together.

If the fire is on the main level:

Send the big kids out, through there boots out after them. Carefully run out upstairs and get the little ones.


If you have neighbors who are home during the day, you could make a "red flag" or something to put in your window, or lawn, tell the neighbors if they see it then you need help. Make sure it something you can put up really fast. That way if they see it and the kids outside they know to come help.


It really depends on were the fire is and how fast it is speeding.

But practicing is the best way to do it. I live in a apartment and they test the fire alarm once a month. We do a practice every month, if we are in when the alarm goes off. It doesn't matter if its quiet time or not. If the weather is bad we just go to the lobby, but if its nice or I am unsure if its a test or not we go outside. Test or not I take coats and diaper bag with me, just in case the test turns out to not be a test.