Fire Preparedness

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Build Your Own Family Escape Plan
The Burn Institute, a non-profit health agency dedicated to reducing burn injuries and deaths through fire and burn prevention education, offers an invaluable tool that allows you to build a personal family escape plan that incorporates all the rooms in your home. Their online Family Fire Escape Plan Tool lets you build a plan room by room, then print it to share with your family.

Ready! Set! Go! Personal Wildfire Action Plan PDF Opens in New Window
This 12-page guide offered by The Los Angeles County Fire Department gives tips and tools you need to successfully prepare for a wildfire, and gives guidance on retrofitting your home with fire-resistive features. In the event of a major wildfire, emergency resources will be stretched, so this action plan describes how to prepare now to protect yourself, your family, and your property.

Videos: Fire Preparedness By San Miguel Fire District

Provided in cooperation by the San Miguel Consolidated Fire Protection District and Farmers Insurance, this educational video program called Before The Threat, illustrates things you can do before a fire to protect your home. The videos provide interviews with homeowners who have survived fires and share how they are now better prepared.

1. What You Can Do Before A Fire – Preparing Your Property

2. Be Prepared to Evacuate – Your To-Go Box and Other Emergency Tips

3. Be Prepared Before the Threat – Review of Preparedness Tips

Videos: How to protect your home from wildfire embers

Be Ember Aware Video – Information about the danger of fire embers (Part 1)

Be Ember Aware Video – Information about protecting your home from fire embers (Part 2)