Daily Idea #319: Low Crawl

My kids have recently been asking about fire safety. Before lock down they had participated in a few fire drills through their “unschooled” classes (we call it homeschool but we were hardly ever at home). However, that feels like a lifetime ago and now that my kids have discovered their love of cooking, I figured it was a good time to bring back some fire safety instructions.

For today’s daily idea, we are going over the fire/smoke crawl. When (g-d forbid) a fire starts in your home, the smoke and the flames can be overwhelming. A good thing to remember is that smoke rises. The closer you get to the ground, the better the air quality. In order to get out of the house and get to safety, get down on your belly as low as possible and army crawl to a door or a window.

In order to practice this move, one person throughout the day will call out “low crawl!” Everyone will then practice their army crawl across the room.