Fire escape

Holyjebus

I was just watching an ad on the telly about fires in the home and it got me thinking about having a plan in the event of a fire, would you jump from the top floor window if you had to and what about the children if you have any? How do you get them and the adults out?
It's something I have never thought about before.
Also why aren't houses in Ireland better equipped to deal with fires like in America where they have fire escapes and ladders.
Wouldn't a rope ladder specially designed to attach to an upstairs window be a good idea?
Sorry for the maudlin thread, especially on AH
So do you guys have a plan in the event of a fire?

El Guapo!

Throw the kids out the top window first.
Hopefully they'll land in a neat little pile to soften your own landing.

alwaysadub

Don't have a fire plan, but if we were upstairs and had to get out quickly, the windows open out fully, so there'd be no trouble getting out of them, but we'd still have a fair drop to jump from.
You can buy fire ladders that attach to the window, might look into getting on sometime.

Pig Benis

I live in a tent, so if it catches fire , im fairly fcuked.

Max Power

We have ladders in Ireland too

My name is URL

Bungalows ftw!

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Yep, fire ladders all the way, one in each upstairs room. Made sure we got large opening windows if we do have to get out.

Errrm, I mean...I originally had bouncy castles out front and back 24/7, but the celtic tiger died so the bouncy castle money went away.

MaxSteele

Well two of us sleep above a conservatory roof and an extended porch. Not to mention the numerous windows and grass patches to land on.

Aside from us being asleep, If one of our family was to die in a house fire here, we'd probably be one of Irelands most incompetent families. :pac:

Pottler

Fire escape plan, of course we have one. Sure who doesn't. I also have working smoke alarms.. runs off to check the kids didn't steal the batteries for their remotes again, begins cutting toe-holds into the back wall..

Rigol

tv --> window.
me --> window frame.

phasers

Don't use a mattress to jump out the top floor window, you'll only end up bouncing back into the house

msg11

I had to jump out the top window of a house before, was staying over in a birds gaf and the mother was down stairs with the alarm on. Had to go to work, so seen the window, said to your one 'is the alarm on the top of the house' she said 'no'. So out the window I went. Great escape really.

BrokenArrows

were you humming mission impossible or james bond tunes at the time. haha.

Paulzx

Holyjebus wrote: »

So do you guys have a plan in the event of a fire?

Yeah.........Get the f&*k out of the gaf.

Paulzx

Holyjebus wrote: »

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Also why aren't houses in Ireland better equipped to deal with fires like in America where they have fire escapes and ladders.
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Because most 3 bed semi d's aren't 12 stories high.

Holyjebus

I didn't know fire ladders existed, I thought I might have been on to something there with that idea!

mickdw

There is a neat rope ladder that fits in a little pack that is designed to be bolted onto the wall under fireescape window. Should have been written into the building regs during the boom imo. Gormley couldn't get round to it. Carbon monoxide alarms should also have been made mandatory.
Minister gormless was too busy bringing in regulations to force new builds to fit twin flush toilets and trying to ban light bulbs.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Holyjebus wrote: »

I didn't know fire ladders existed, I thought I might have been on to something there with that idea!

Have a look at Argos, they do a few.

Pottler

I went out and tied some washing line out of the chimney(well, I didn't, I just gave the young lad a can of Monster and he nipped up and did the deed for me). From now on I'm insisting everyone sleeps wearing an abseiling harness and has a small hammer under their pillow. I realise now how unprepared I was but I think I've got it sorted. Are you 100% sure even people like us who live in a bungalow need all this OP? I'd hate to have wasted that can of Monster energy. We had a new aerial to put up but this sidelined it.

El Guapo!

Pottler wrote: »

I went out and tied some washing line out of the chimney(well, I didn't, I just gave the young lad a can of Monster and he nipped up and did the deed for me). From now on I'm insisting everyone sleeps wearing an abseiling harness and has a small hammer under their pillow. I realise now how unprepared I was but I think I've got it sorted. Are you 100% sure even people like us who live in a bungalow need all this OP? I'd hate to have wasted that can of Monster energy. We had a new aerial to put up but this sidelined it.

You have it all wrong. You need to fill your house with water and sleep with oxygen tanks and flippers.

I think I'd just climb out my bedroom window, close my eyes, say a prayer, and jump.


Thank god for bungalows.

Pottler

Deleted User wrote: »

I think I'd just climb out my bedroom window, close my eyes, say a prayer, and jump.


Thank god for bungalows.

Just for sh1ts and giggles, try it some time. It's harder than you think. For realism, get your oh to spray a can of lynx at you while lighting a lighter under the jet. It increases the giddy-up, apparently.

rainbowdrop

Deleted User wrote: »

I think I'd just climb out my bedroom window, close my eyes, say a prayer, and jump.


Thank god for bungalows.

Bungalow's are great, I also live in one. My bed is right under the window, so if a fire ever breaks out in the middle of the night, all I have to do is roll 3ft sideways and then a 3ft 'dive' out the window.

Hope I don't break a nail or something:p

msg11

Pottler wrote: »

Just for sh1ts and giggles, try it some time. It's harder than you think. For realism, get your oh to spray a can of lynx at you while lighting a lighter under the jet. It increases the giddy-up, apparently.

Well when I jumped you don't go and literally jump from the window, doing that your going to break yourself up. What I done was, climb out onto the window, then get in a position where you are hanging from the window ledge. Makes the drop a lot less height wise, then drop and try and put a roll into it. Get up and make your escape.

Now folks the real question is would you jump from the roof that would separate the men from the boys.

who the fug

what amuses me is wimmen with them small candles and the front door triple locked


Darwin in action

Son Of A Vidic

benwavner wrote: »

I originally had bouncy castles out front and back 24/7, but the celtic tiger died so the bouncy castle money went away.

Bet ya it was one of those "Shure it'll be a soft landing", bouncy castles that Bertie used to peddle?

OU812

The kids sleep in the front so we're going out that way.

Have an extinguisher, fire blanket, torch & brick hammer in our room.

Break the double glazing with the hammer (hit in the corner, won't break otherwise), swing the wife down to the car bonnet below. Number one straight after, young ones get lowered down in their duvet covers. Then everyone out of the way because I'm coming through legs first...

Seriously people. Have a plan, make sure everyone knows it.

Pottler

OU812 wrote: »

The kids sleep in the front so we're going out that way.

Have an extinguisher, fire blanket, torch & brick hammer in our room.

Break the double glazing with the hammer (hit in the corner, won't break otherwise), swing the wife down to the car bonnet below. Number one straight after, young ones get lowered down in their duvet covers. Then everyone out of the way because I'm coming through legs first...

Seriously people. Have a plan, make sure everyone knows it.

Supposing the fronts the bit on fire??

Turtyturd

Have a dog so I am fairly sure he will drag us out through the flames.

ScumLord

Holyjebus wrote: »

Also why aren't houses in Ireland better equipped to deal with fires like in America where they have fire escapes and ladders.

American houses don't have fire escapes. Apartment blocks have to have escape routes for the residents but so do apartment blocks in Ireland or any other country. If anything I'd say American timber houses may be a worse place to be in a house fire.

Wouldn't a rope ladder specially designed to attach to an upstairs window be a good idea?

If you want one of those you can purchase them here.

bbam

I have a friend and after a fire safety talk at work he decided his kids 4&6 could do with a fire drill...

he sat them down and explained what to do if there were a fire, where to get the door keys to let themselves out and where to go outside..

gets the kids to lie in bed pretend they are sleeping, leaves them for 20 minutes and they are real bored...

bursts in to the room screaming FIRE, FIRE.. proceedes to chase them down the stairs, all the time screaming FIRE, FIRE, had the keys hidden so the kids couldn't find them... 6 year old searching hall for keys and yer man is there roaring FIRE, FIRE...

Kids ended up in convultions crying and he couldn't calm them... his missus came home from work and the kids started crying all over again... Kids didn't sleep for about a week with nightmares and bed wetting, waking screaming...

He got some grief from herself and reckons it would be an easier life to let them all burn in future and escape himself!!

King Of Wishful Thinking

who the fug wrote: »

what amuses me is wimmen with them small candles and the front door triple locked

Darwin in action

Your more an example of Darwin's theories than the old women.

OU812

Pottler wrote: »

Supposing the fronts the bit on fire??

Although possible, it's unlikely, if it was, we're going out the back, which will probably result in an injury or two ( me mostly), but still doable.