Some quick fire facts

nbspspan stylecolor rgb104 104 104 font-size 14px font-weight bold font-family arial helvetica sans-serif line-height 16pxEscape Planningnbspspanul stylelist-style-position outside padding-left 24px margin 12px 0px 24px font-family arial helvetica sans-serif font-size 13px line-height 16pxli stylemargin 8px 0px text-align leftAccording to an NFPA survey only one-third of Americans have both developed and practiced a home fire escape plan.lili stylemargin 8px 0px text-align leftAlmost three-quarters of Americans do have an escape plan however more than half never practiced it .lili stylemargin 8px 0px text-align leftOne-third of Americans households who made and estimate they thought they would have at least 6 minutes before a fire in their home would become life threatening. The time available is often less. And only 8 said their first thought on hearing a smoke alarm would be to get outnbspliulp stylefont-size 13px line-height 16px margin-top 8px margin-bottom 8px font-family arial helvetica sans-serifspan classheadline stylefont-weight bold font-size 14px color rgb104 104 104Smoke Alarmsspanpul stylelist-style-position outside padding-left 24px margin 12px 0px 24px font-family arial helvetica sans-serif font-size 13px line-height 16pxli stylemargin 8px 0px text-align leftspan classbodyAlmost two-thirds 62 of reported home fire deaths resulted from fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.spanlili stylemargin 8px 0px text-align leftWorking smoke alarms cut the risk of dying in reported home fires in half.lili stylemargin 8px 0px text-align leftIn fires considered large enough to activate the smoke alarm hardwired alarms operated 92 of the time while battery powered alarms operated only 77nbspof the time.liulpp