React when the smoke alarm sounds
Begin escaping promptly and leave belongings behind.
Public demonstration
Escape Decisions
Practice six home fire escape decisions in a guided browser activity. Unsafe choices receive coaching, and you continue after choosing the safer action.
- Six guided decisions
- Retry unsafe choices
- No score or pass/fail label
- No participant account
Before you practice
Educational practice, not emergency instructions.
In a real fire: get outside, stay outside, call 911 from a safe place, and follow emergency responders.
Follow your local fire department guidance and the escape plan made for your home. This demonstration does not replace a practiced household escape plan.
What it practices
A simple home escape decision sequence.
The demonstration focuses on a single-family home scenario with a ground-floor bedroom and a prepared, usable second exit.
Use a prepared second way out
Keep a smoky door closed and use the second exit when the main route is blocked.
Meet, call, and stay out
Go to the meeting place, call 911 from safety, and tell responders if someone may still be inside.
Inside the demonstration
Guided choices with safer-action feedback.
Participants choose an action, review the consequence, and retry when needed. The activity is not timed and does not assign a grade.
Optional alarm examples are included for education only. Actual smoke alarms and evacuation alarms vary by building and device.
Public demo. Department sharing and participation reporting are not available for this activity.
About this activity
Educational purpose
General education only. This is not certification, emergency guidance, inspection, code review, or a substitute for local instruction.
Scenario limits
The scenario does not cover every home, high-rise, care facility, disability-specific plan, wildfire, industrial emergency, or trapped-person situation.
Safety message
Use working smoke alarms, practice a home escape plan with two ways out, choose an outside meeting place, get outside, stay outside, and call 911 from safety.
Status
Reviewed for public demonstration use. Department production deployment and participation reporting remain separate from this demonstration.