Safety
You are home alone and there is an earthquake. Where do you go?
The bathtub
Your bathtub is clogged
Call a plumber....or get draino to unclog
Your toilet begins to overflow.
Get a plunger and plunge the toilet.
You come home and notice your front door is open.
You call 911 and say that your front door is open. (Say only the facts)
You hear something metal in the garbage disposal when it’s running.
Turn off the garbage disposal and tell your parent that there is something metal in the garbage disposal.
The carbon monoxide alarm is going off.
Open your outside door and windows. Call 911.
You find a mouse inside your house.
You set a trap.
It’s raining and the roof is leaking onto the kitchen floor .
Get a mop and quickly clean the floor. Put a bucket under the leak. Tell your parent that there is a leak.
You burn your arm and it left a red mark.
Put your arm under a faucet and run luke warm water over it for several minutes.
It’s the middle of the night and you realize you have no toilet paper.
Use a very small amount of a napkin or paper towel or use the shower.
You cut your hand. It’s small but it won’t stop bleeding.
Put gauze on the cut and apply pressure....if it doesn't stop bleeding call 911, but keep the pressure on your hand until help arrives.
Your dish towel was too close to the stove and catches on fire.
Use a fire extinguisher quickly.....if too much call 911
You accidentally break a window.
Tell the truth.
You smell gas in the kitchen.
Go outside and call 911 and say only the facts.
There’s a loud party at the house next door and you can’t sleep.
Tell your parents. They will talk to the people at the party and ask them to keep it down or call the police.
You are having serious chest pains.
Call 911.
You find a bird in your house.
Shut all of the doors to shut it in one room and open the outside door and windows.
You spill grape juice on the carpet.
Use a stain remover on the carpet or club soda.
You drop a glass and it breaks all over the tile floor.
Put on gloves and get a broom and dustpan. Sweep up the glass and put in the trash.
You hear something outside your window.
Tell your parents.
Dinner in the oven is burning and the smoke alarm is going off.
Turn the oven off. Use a fire extinguisher. Open windows and the outside door.
Your smoke alarm is making a high pitch beeping noise.
You change the battery.
You have low water pressure throughout the house.
Call a plumber.
A burning candle catches the drapes on fire. The whole wall is burning.
Get pets and people outside of the house immediately and call 911 from outside.
The heat is not working.
Bundle up in blankets and warm clothes. You can also stay warm near the oven if you turn it on and open the door.