Home-escape plans part of local fire-drill week
More than a dozen local fire departments plan to participate in the Great American Fire Drill this week to give residents a chance to review their home-escape plans and learn about fire safety. Families are invited to create and practice a home-fire-drill plan before the Thursday events.
A planning grid, available at www.firepreventionweek.org, may be used to draw a simple floor plan. Families are encouraged to label ways out of each room, choose a family-meeting place outside the home, go over the plan and practice.
Participants are asked to hold their personal drills at home before attending an open house to tell firefighters how their exercises went. Families also may bring in one old 9-volt battery from a smoke alarm to exchange for a new one.
The 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday open houses are scheduled for:
• Hilton Lake Fire Station, 3525 108th St. S.E., Everett
• Silver Firs Fire Station, 3611 Puget Park Drive, Everett
• Lynnwood Fire Department, 18800 44th Ave. W.
• Mountlake Terrace Fire Station 19, 5902 232nd St. S.W.
• Monroe Fire Station 31, 163 Village Court
• Monroe Fire Station 32, 22122 132nd St.
• Snohomish Co. Fire District 5, 304 Alder Ave., Sultan
• Snohomish Co. Fire District 7, 3431 180th St. S.E., Snohomish
• Snohomish Co. Fire District 7, 21709 99th Ave. S.E., Maltby
• Marysville Fire District, 1635 Grove St.
• Marysville Fire District, 17500 E. Lake Goodwin Road
• Lake Stevens Fire, 12409 21st St. N.E.
• Lake Stevens Fire, 9811 Chapel Hill Road
• Index Fire Department, 512 Avenue A
• Tulalip Bay Fire, 7812 Waterworks Road
• Granite Falls Fire, 116 S. Granite Ave.
• Getchell Fire, 8424 99th Ave. N.E.