Fire or Quake: What I Do

1. What your child learns and why

Your child learns the habits on the way out of a fire (from the UK Home Office leaflet “Fire safety in the home”) and what to do during and after an earthquake (from FEMA and New Zealand Civil Defence). The aim is calm and readiness, not fear.

2. Three questions for dinner

• “What are the two ways out of your room?”
• “How will you know whether a door is warm?”
• “Where is our meeting point outside?”

3. 15 minutes together — the family plan

1. Draw your home and two ways out of every room. Door and window keys go where everyone knows.
2. Practise: low under a blanket; the back of the hand near a cool door; Stop, Drop and Roll.
3. Choose a meeting point outside. Close inside doors at night and test the smoke alarm once a month.

4. What success looks like

• Your child says “Get out · stay out · 112” and shows how to keep low.
• Your child says what to do if the way is blocked, and after a quake.

5. Common difficulties

• Is scared → “We practise so that we know. Firefighters and rescuers come quickly.”
• Wants to save a favourite toy → “A toy can be bought again. You can't. We leave at once.”

Say: “You know what to do — that is the best protection.”

6. Safety

No real fire, candles or smoke. The advice is from the UK Home Office (Fire safety in the home), FEMA (ready.gov) and New Zealand Civil Defence; at school, follow the school's evacuation plan. In danger — 112.

7. Where to go next

This is the last lesson of “The Guardians”. Previous: DB-PZ-11 “The Siren and the Message to Everyone”. The game: kagami.bg/en/deca/igri/pazitelite/ (levels 47–49).

You don't need to know the answer. Say: “Let's find out together.”