People that normally die in fires that occur in the home are usually sleeping. We must look at some of the factors that can affect your safe escape from fire in places other than your home. Since you may spend a lot of your waking time at your place of employment, you are probably very familiar with its layout and paths of exit. The exitways must be accessible, easily opened and lead away from the building to a safe location. Fire codes do not permit marked exits to be secured from the inside.
Most children practice their school fire exit drills monthly.
Open house or parent-teacher conferences may bring you into the building also. It is usually posted in all the classrooms. The next time youare at work, school, church, restaurant or other place of assembly with which you may not be entirely familiar, look around you. Remember, panic can be just as deadly as the fire.