Family Fire Escape Route Card

SKILL.md

---
name: "Family Fire Escape Route Card"
description: "Creates a simple household fire escape route card with room-by-room exits, meeting point, roles, drill plan, and local fire authority follow-up prompts."
version: "1.0.0"
type: prompt-flow
tags: ["fire escape plan", "home safety", "family emergency plan", "evacuation card", "fire drill", "household checklist"]
---

# Family Fire Escape Route Card

## Purpose

Help the user create a simple, printable household fire escape card that family members, housemates, caregivers, or guests can understand quickly. The card lists room-by-room exits, backup exits, a safe outside meeting point, responsibilities, drill schedule, and local follow-up checks.

This skill provides planning support only. It does not replace local fire authority guidance, building codes, landlord requirements, professional inspection, or emergency services. In a fire, get out, stay out, and call emergency services from a safe place.

## Use This Skill When

Use this skill when the user wants to:

- Make a home fire escape plan for a house, apartment, dorm, shared home, or vacation rental.
- Turn scattered safety notes into one card for the fridge, door, binder, or family meeting.
- Identify primary and backup exits for each sleeping area and common room.
- Assign simple roles for children, older adults, pets, guests, or people with mobility, hearing, vision, or language needs.
- Plan a household fire drill and reminder schedule.

Do not use this skill to approve unsafe building conditions, advise entering a burning building, bypass alarms, ignore smoke, delay evacuation to collect possessions, or replace local emergency guidance.

## Best Inputs

Ask only for details needed to build the card. If the user cannot provide a floor plan, create a text-only route table and ask them to verify it in the home.

- Home type: house, apartment, dorm, shared home, rental, or other.
- Floors, bedrooms, common rooms, doors, windows, stairways, balconies, and exterior routes.
- People in the home, including children, older adults, guests, and accessibility needs.
- Pets and who may release or carry them only if safe during evacuation.
- Existing alarms, extinguishers, escape ladders, building exits, and assembly areas.
- Preferred outside meeting point away from the building and emergency vehicle access.
- Local emergency number and local fire authority contact or website if known.

## Workflow

1. **Set the safety rule first.** State: get out, stay out, call emergency services from outside, and never re-enter for people, pets, documents, medicine, or valuables.
2. **Map the household.** List rooms, normal exits, backup exits, obstacles, and any rooms that need special planning.
3. **Choose a meeting point.** Pick a visible, safe outdoor location away from smoke, traffic, and fire equipment paths.
4. **Assign roles.** Keep roles simple: who helps children, who assists a specific person if safe, who calls emergency services, who brings only a phone if already in hand, who manages pets only if evacuation is not delayed.
5. **Plan alerts.** Include alarm testing, battery replacement, sleeping-door practice, and waking children or people with hearing needs.
6. **Create drill steps.** Give a short practice sequence, date, and review prompts.
7. **Flag local verification.** Prompt the user to compare the card with local fire department guidance, building management instructions, and official emergency numbers.
8. **Produce the card.** Keep it one page, printable, and easy for a child or guest to follow.

## Output Format

Return the artifact in this order:

1. **Immediate Fire Rule**

```text
If there is smoke, fire, or an alarm: get out, stay out, and call emergency services from outside. Never re-enter.
```

2. **Household Fire Escape Card**

```text
Home type:
People included:
Emergency number:
Outside meeting point:
Local fire authority guidance to verify:
Practice date:
Next review date:
```

3. **Room-By-Room Routes**

| Room or area | Primary exit | Backup exit | Help needed | Notes to verify |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | | | | |

4. **Roles During Evacuation**

| Role | Person | Action | Safety limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caller | | Call from outside | Do not delay escape |

5. **Drill Plan**

- Alarm sound or cue.
- Everyone practices the nearest safe route.
- Everyone meets at the meeting point.
- Caller practices saying the address.
- Review what was confusing or blocked.

6. **Readiness Checklist**

- Smoke alarms tested.
- Exits clear.
- Windows or secondary exits checked by an adult.
- Door keys or exit devices accessible where appropriate.
- Address posted or known by callers.
- Special assistance plan verified.
- Local fire authority guidance reviewed.

7. **Unknowns To Confirm**

List missing floor details, blocked routes, local rules, building management instructions, alarm issues, or accessibility needs.

## Message Style

- Use calm, direct, non-alarming language.
- Keep instructions short enough for a refrigerator card.
- Use plain English.
- Prioritize evacuation over belongings.
- Mark any missing facts that require in-home verification.
- Encourage local fire department or official authority review.

## Safety Boundary

- Planning support only; not a professional safety inspection.
- Follow local fire authority guidance, building management instructions, and emergency services directions.
- Never suggest re-entering a burning or smoke-filled building.
- Never suggest delaying escape to rescue pets, documents, medicine, devices, or valuables.
- Do not recommend risky window, balcony, ladder, roof, elevator, or stairwell actions without local professional guidance.
- In an active emergency, tell the user to leave immediately if safe to do so and call emergency services from outside.

## Example Prompts

- "Make a fire escape route card for my family."
- "We live in a two-bedroom apartment. Help me create an evacuation plan."
- "Turn this rough floor layout into a fire drill checklist."
- "I need a simple card my kids and babysitter can understand."