Family Fire Escape Route Card

Creates a simple household fire escape route card with room-by-room exits, meeting point, roles, drill plan, and local fire authority follow-up prompts.

Purpose

Help the user create a simple, printable household fire escape card that family members, housemates, caregivers, or guests can understand quickly. The card lists room-by-room exits, backup exits, a safe outside meeting point, responsibilities, drill schedule, and local follow-up checks.

This skill provides planning support only. It does not replace local fire authority guidance, building codes, landlord requirements, professional inspection, or emergency services. In a fire, get out, stay out, and call emergency services from a safe place.

Use This Skill When

Use this skill when the user wants to:

• Make a home fire escape plan for a house, apartment, dorm, shared home, or vacation rental.
• Turn scattered safety notes into one card for the fridge, door, binder, or family meeting.
• Identify primary and backup exits for each sleeping area and common room.
• Assign simple roles for children, older adults, pets, guests, or people with mobility, hearing, vision, or language needs.
• Plan a household fire drill and reminder schedule.

Do not use this skill to approve unsafe building conditions, advise entering a burning building, bypass alarms, ignore smoke, delay evacuation to collect possessions, or replace local emergency guidance.

Best Inputs

Ask only for details needed to build the card. If the user cannot provide a floor plan, create a text-only route table and ask them to verify it in the home.

• Home type: house, apartment, dorm, shared home, rental, or other.
• Floors, bedrooms, common rooms, doors, windows, stairways, balconies, and exterior routes.
• People in the home, including children, older adults, guests, and accessibility needs.
• Pets and who may release or carry them only if safe during evacuation.
• Existing alarms, extinguishers, escape ladders, building exits, and assembly areas.
• Preferred outside meeting point away from the building and emergency vehicle access.
• Local emergency number and local fire authority contact or website if known.

Workflow

1. Set the safety rule first. State: get out, stay out, call emergency services from outside, and never re-enter for people, pets, documents, medicine, or valuables.
2. Map the household. List rooms, normal exits, backup exits, obstacles, and any rooms that need special planning.
3. Choose a meeting point. Pick a visible, safe outdoor location away from smoke, traffic, and fire equipment paths.
4. Assign roles. Keep roles simple: who helps children, who assists a specific person if safe, who calls emergency services, who brings only a phone if already in hand, who manages pets only if evacuation is not delayed.
5. Plan alerts. Include alarm testing, battery replacement, sleeping-door practice, and waking children or people with hearing needs.
6. Create drill steps. Give a short practice sequence, date, and review prompts.
7. Flag local verification. Prompt the user to compare the card with local fire department guidance, building management instructions, and official emergency numbers.
8. Produce the card. Keep it one page, printable, and easy for a child or guest to follow.

Output Format

Return the artifact in this order:

1. Immediate Fire Rule

If there is smoke, fire, or an alarm: get out, stay out, and call emergency services from outside. Never re-enter.

2. Household Fire Escape Card

Home type:
People included:
Emergency number:
Outside meeting point:
Local fire authority guidance to verify:
Practice date:
Next review date:

3. Room-By-Room Routes

Room or area	Primary exit	Backup exit	Help needed	Notes to verify

4. Roles During Evacuation

Role	Person	Action	Safety limit
Caller		Call from outside	Do not delay escape

5. Drill Plan

• Alarm sound or cue.
• Everyone practices the nearest safe route.
• Everyone meets at the meeting point.
• Caller practices saying the address.
• Review what was confusing or blocked.

6. Readiness Checklist

• Smoke alarms tested.
• Exits clear.
• Windows or secondary exits checked by an adult.
• Door keys or exit devices accessible where appropriate.
• Address posted or known by callers.
• Special assistance plan verified.
• Local fire authority guidance reviewed.

7. Unknowns To Confirm

List missing floor details, blocked routes, local rules, building management instructions, alarm issues, or accessibility needs.

Message Style

• Use calm, direct, non-alarming language.
• Keep instructions short enough for a refrigerator card.
• Use plain English.
• Prioritize evacuation over belongings.
• Mark any missing facts that require in-home verification.
• Encourage local fire department or official authority review.

Safety Boundary

• Planning support only; not a professional safety inspection.
• Follow local fire authority guidance, building management instructions, and emergency services directions.
• Never suggest re-entering a burning or smoke-filled building.
• Never suggest delaying escape to rescue pets, documents, medicine, devices, or valuables.
• Do not recommend risky window, balcony, ladder, roof, elevator, or stairwell actions without local professional guidance.
• In an active emergency, tell the user to leave immediately if safe to do so and call emergency services from outside.

Example Prompts

• "Make a fire escape route card for my family."
• "We live in a two-bedroom apartment. Help me create an evacuation plan."
• "Turn this rough floor layout into a fire drill checklist."
• "I need a simple card my kids and babysitter can understand."