March is National Craft month. Share the Fire Truck Fold Up Activity Sheet with your community. Parents and caregivers can help children learn about fire safety and create a home fire escape plan.
Once they complete the plan, the activity sheet folds into a fire truck with important safety messages on the ladder rungs.
Fire Truck Fold Up Activity Sheet – English
Fire Truck Fold Up Activity Sheet – Spanish
Older adults have a 2.6 times greater risk of dying in a fire than the U.S. population as a whole, and Children ages 4 and under have a higher risk of dying in a fire compared to older children.
- Make a home fire escape plan and practice it at least twice a year with your children.
- Have a fire escape plan for young children who cannot get outside by themselves. Talk about who will help each child get out safely.
- Children should know what to do when they hear a smoke alarm and there is no adult around.
- Help them practice going to an outside meeting place.
- Teach children to never go back inside a building that is on fire.
- Keep children 3 feet away from anything that can get hot.
- Keep smoking materials locked up in a high place.
- Never play with lighters or matches when you are with your children.
- Your risk of dying in a home fire is greater as you get older.
- Discuss your fire escape plan with family and neighbors.
- Contact your building manager or fire department to discuss your plan if you need extra help escaping.
- If you use a walker or wheelchair, check all exits to be sure that you can go through the doorways.
- If you can’t hear your smoke alarm, consider getting one that has a different sound or one that comes with a bed shaker or strobe light.
- Caregivers should check the smoke alarms of those who are unable to it themselves.
- Never smoke around medical oxygen.
- Use a timer to remind you that you are cooking.
