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Keeping Safe with a Family Home Escape Plan & the Family Safety Kit Giveaway

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Energizer is talking family safety, which is a topic that is very important to me. As such, they’ve asked me to introduce their Change Your Clock Change Your Battery® program, in addition to giving away a family safety kit! All opinions expressed are my own. smoke and carbon monoxide alarm There is nothing more important to me in this life than keeping my family safe and healthy. I’m sure that many of you can agree with that statement, because our loves mean the world to us! There are the obvious ways of  keeping our kids safe, such as telling them not to talk to strangers, buckle their seat belts, look both ways before crossing the street, eat their vegetables, stay away from dangerous situations, don’t do drugs, etc. Have you ever thought about what you are physically doing to keep them safe? There is something so simple that I’ll bet many of us don’t think about, which could save a life – changing the batteries of your smoke alarm and carbon monoxide detectors!

Energizer, the International Association of Fire Chiefs, and fire departments nationwide join forces for the Change Your Clock Change Your Battery® program to raise awareness of the importance of working smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors in helping to keep families safe in their homes. Most of the states in our country have daylight savings. All they are asking us to do is to remember to change the batteries on our detectors, when we change our clocks twice a year. Pairing this task with the task of changing the clocks is a great and easy way to remember to do it! Because we just had to change our clocks so go check your detectors and make sure they are in good working order! Here are a couple of facts to really get you thinking about the importance of those detectors and alarms.

  • 38% of fatal fire injuries occur in homes with no smoke alarms
  • 24% of fatal fire injuries occur in homes in which at least one smoke alarm is present but fails to operate, frequently due to dead or missing batteries.

I’d like to recommend you take a night in the next week to review your family’s home escape plan and find out the benefits of having a residential fire suppression system, in addition to making sure your house is as safe as it can be. Make sure your kids know what to do in the case of an emergency. Where will you all meet – by the mailbox? At the neighbor’s house? You can find fire safety tips, a home escape plan that you can download and draw your family’s home escape plan, as well as a coloring and activity sheet on the Energizer Bunny’s Facebook page.

The Change Your Clock Change Your Battery® program is just one of the ways Energizer brings to life the company’s commitment to making a positive impact in communities across the country. that’s positivenergy™   For more information, please visit  energizer.com/change and facebook.com/energizerbunny.

Energizer Bunny is also turning 25 and instead of receiving presents, he’s giving them away. ENTER for a chance to WIN a present worth more than $75 from the Energizer Bunny! Energizer Family Safety Kit That’s not all!!!! One Clever Housewife reader will win a Family Safety Kit (valued at $60) with the following awesome items:

  • One 16-pack Energizer® MAX® AA Batteries years
  • One 1-pack of Energizer® MAX® 9 volt batteries
  • One Energizer® Weatheready® LED Safety Light flashlight – Waterproof flashlight powered by AA, AAA or C cell batteries
  • One Kidde Battery-Operated Combination Carbon Monoxide and Smoke Alarm

Energizer® Weatheready® LED Safety Light flashlight This kit will get you off to a great start on family safety! These combination Carbon Monoxide and Smoke Alarm systems are really great and you will LOVE the flashlight! This is the first flashlight I have seen that can accommodate a variety of different batteries. Plus, it has a checklist on the side of the flashlight, to help you get prepared!! The giveaway will end at 11:59pm PT on 11/27/13. To enter, fill out the form below.

Comments

  4. Teresa F says

    Yes we do. It was a homework assignment from school at the beginning of the school year. Along with memorizing their address. Thank you

  8. Stephanie O says

    We do not have an escape plan in my house. We probably should since we have two kids and a third on the way.

  13. Ashley Newberg says

    Our house is small enough that we don’t necessarily need a “plan” but we have talked about it. We only have a 1 year old so we don’t have kids old enough to learn a plan yet! 🙂

  16. Melissa Marino says

    My daughter just did a Junior Firefighter workshop at school and we sat down as a family and devised a plan and taught our youngest daughter what she needed to do as well in case the worst possible scenario occurred. Can never be too safe. Thanks for all the tips that you post. 🙂

  20. Amber Sumner says

    No we do not have an escape plan in place yet. We have talked about it but that is as far as we have gotten.

  24. Gina Laub says

    Can never be too safe! We do but need to modify it-plan on purchasibg escape ladders for tge 2nd and 3rd floors

  27. Connie Lee says

    It’s just my husband and me at home. It might seem funny, but my husband keeps a large hammer in the bedroom in case we have to break out a window to escape fire. We live in a single story house, it’s not that far to the ground, lol!

  29. Karen Glatt says

    We have a plan to get out of the house because I have to my elderly father lives with me, and we have to make sure that we have a way for him and the rest of my family to get out.

  32. Jill H says

    We do not have an escape plan in place but that has been on my mind recently and we need to do one soon.

  34. jamie kelsey says

    we do have a meeting place plan but I have always told kids to go out window if at all possible.

  35. Nikki W says

    We have set up an escape plan. Luckily we live in a one story home and the windows are ground level.

  36. Anita Sharp says

    I like the link to the Energizer printable coloring pages. A great way to reinforce what you are teaching your kids!

  41. Patricia Mackey says

    Yes! We have an escape plan. We also have an alternative escape plan just in case we are in a different part of the house or fire blocks the planned exit.

  42. michelle warner says

    oh yes i do have an escape plan, we actually go over it every once in a while so we dont forget it, kids kind of like when we do it, its fun for them.

  57. Leslie Russell says

    We have discussed what we would do, but our daughter is 2, so we would have to work on it when she is older

  74. Sarah Marshall says

    We have a plan, including who is responsible for each four legged family member in the case of an emergency!

  75. Tamar says

    I’ve been thinking about it for months. I don’t know how to even tackle it since I don’t live on the first floor and my kids are so little.

  77. Christy Riley says

    An escape plan is something I still need to do. I have been thinking about it for s while and have bits and pieces.

  81. Donna Whitten says

    No we don’t have one-but thank you for bringing this to our attention-i am going to work on one

  84. Heather Haney aka PrepperBabecom says

    I have so many plans for so many different situations! I can do anything, I saved my 2 kids from our house fire and I teach them how to kick out tail lights if they are ever put in a trunk! We have bug out bags, car emergency kits, they know what to do if bag guys enter our house, if a tornado comes we have plans enroute to our underground shelter, they can build fires, shelters and if our car goes in the water we have a planned escape for everone. We all have our own jobs and responsibilites and children are proud to have something to be in charge of. This winter when we loose electricity it will be an awesome slumber party we are so prepared! Open up the canned bacon! 🙂

  87. Maria Clowes says

    I don’t know if I’d call it an escape plan but we do have a storm shelter that stays stocked with candles, matches, bottled water and non perishable food. And by our door are the flashlights and batteries that we keep in a basket so we can grab and go in the event of an emergency

  90. Jeanette Mays says

    I actually do, and I have talked it over with my 4 year old a lot. She may not completly get it, but eventually one day after saying it so many times it will click with her.

  100. lilshuga2001 says

    I do not- i just moved into an apt complex and im on the 3rd story- so I beter get a ROPE! 🙂

  114. Joan Brewster says

    Would love to win this…our stuff is so old that i am worried about them working if they are needed. Thx Energizer & Clever Housewife for doing this. Joan

  123. Trisha McKee says

    We have one but it is not detailed enough to make me feel confident. This is something we need to work on.

  125. Donna Kellogg says

    We just recently moved we had one set for are old house but I have to get one set for this house

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