Fire Prevention Week: safety experts urge homes and businesses to stay prepared

“Every home should have a fire escape plan, knowing two ways out of every room, making sure your children know that their job is simply to get out and stay out. Your home should have a meeting place somewhere outside in your front yard — a landmark like a basketball pole or a mailbox — where everyone in your home knows to go to so that way you can keep accountability,” said Matt Reaman, Shawnee Township Fire Prevention Officer.