https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 02 May 2026 08:00:31 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-leave-fire-burning#post-1949952 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:45:14 +0000 FliegepilzHut 1949952@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Amelieisme: Better safe than sorry, I would think! :wink:</p> <p>ETA: I would think as long as the coals are dying down (no longer sparking) that would be safe, as pp have said! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-leave-fire-burning#post-1949922 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:17:25 +0000 Amelieisme 1949922@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@FliegepilzHut: ours is open hearth. We probably need to start being more careful with it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-leave-fire-burning#post-1949910 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:56:21 +0000 FliegepilzHut 1949910@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Amelieisme: My parents do because they have a wood-burning stove/insert. I would avoid leaving an open hearth burning, though. Also, either way, I would make sure to have chimneys cleaned yearly, since chimney fires are scary! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-leave-fire-burning#post-1949909 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:56:03 +0000 PurplePumps 1949909@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Only if there are no flames or bright hot orange coals. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-leave-fire-burning#post-1949886 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:27:28 +0000 BananaPancakes 1949886@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was just wondering this a couple of hours ago!! We build a fire like 3 times a year, but I never know what to do with it, exactly. We always soak an outside fire with the hose before going inside for the night, and will go to bed with low burning embers in the fireplace. I wasn't sure if that was the norm. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-leave-fire-burning#post-1949882 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:18:06 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 1949882@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If there isn't active flames we wwould always kind of spread the coals out flat so the heat isn't building if that makes sense &amp; leave it. By we I mean my parents when I was a kid. It was always fine </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-leave-fire-burning#post-1949881 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:17:23 +0000 youboots 1949881@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We do if it's just coals not big bright flames. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-leave-fire-burning#post-1949880 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:17:09 +0000 MOMTOLITTLEB 1949880@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, we don't like to leave it unattended. We'll leave it if it's pretty much going out but we're careful not to add wood as it gets later in the evening. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-leave-fire-burning#post-1949879 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:13:31 +0000 Amelieisme 1949879@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For those with a wood burning fireplace,do you let the fire burn out and go to bed? My DH and I do this but I worry it's a fire hazard. My parents would have never done this, but they are pretty extreme risk averse people. DH thinks it's okay to leave it, but it sort of worries me so I was wondering, what is the norm?? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-fire-escape-plan#post-593525 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:36:06 +0000 MediaNaranja 593525@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Fire safety is something I don't mess around with. I've had to escape from a burning building before, it is no bueno :( Because of that I always keep a pair of shoes next to my bed (I wasn't wearing shoes the first-and hopefully only-time that has happened). Where we live now, it wouldn't be a big deal. We are on the ground floor, and there is the main exit (front door) off the living room and a back exit off the bedroom. The kitchen window is low enough that it would work as an escape as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-fire-escape-plan#post-593153 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:39:11 +0000 Grace 593153@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've never heard of a fire ladder! I like it. My mom always told us go jump out the window. She said a broken leg was better than burning to death. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-fire-escape-plan#post-592906 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:59:35 +0000 matador84 592906@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Actually this just came up during our inspection in the house we are moving into. It was built in 1958 and has the original windows and storm windowS. It's also on a pier and beam which has caused a slight shift and none of the windows open which is a fire code hazard/ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-fire-escape-plan#post-592904 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:58:23 +0000 anonysquire 592904@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. Grab cats and 72 hour kid and run like a mad man. Everything else can be replaced. </p> <p>When we were growing up we would always have surprise drills. Like we would be at dinner and my parents would say ok you have 5 minutes to get out of the house, go grab everything you would need. And then I would go to my closet ang grab all my hangered items and run... ya now I don't care about clothes so my answer is different lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-fire-escape-plan#post-592885 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:40:36 +0000 MrsTiz 592885@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsCB: our old apartment had them too! I set off the smoke alarm a few times and they never came on. I think they have to heat up to a certain degree? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-fire-escape-plan#post-592883 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:38:55 +0000 MrsTiz 592883@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't have a plan, but our house is mostly one story. We would jump out of whatever window or door is nearby.</p> <p>When I lived with my parents, my sister and I were upstairs and both had huge window seats with built in fire escape ladders that our parents made us practice a couple times. We also had a hideout plan for if someone ever broke into our house. They were in top of it :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-fire-escape-plan#post-592825 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:55:04 +0000 Pepper 592825@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yikes, we really don't have a plan. We have a security system that will alert the fire department if a certain smoke detector is set off, but that's about it. You can also open our second story windows and climb out onto the porch roof, which I guess would be our out until help arrived. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-fire-escape-plan#post-592815 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:49:57 +0000 wheres_c 592815@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are in a first floor apartment with sprinklers. I accidentally started a small kitchen fire and sprinklers did not turn on. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-fire-escape-plan#post-592057 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:47:34 +0000 KissMeCait 592057@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We’re in a first floor condo with fire sprinklers. If a fire ever happened, we wouldn’t have an issue getting out, though I’m pretty sure the sprinklers would kick on long before we had to escape anyway. </p> <p>@MrsCB: I’ve burned my fair share of things in the kitchen and never had the sprinklers go off. I’m pretty sure ours need direct heat in order to trigger. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-fire-escape-plan#post-591995 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:23:31 +0000 .twist. 591995@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bookworm: wow! that sounds sooooo easy. I kind of wish we had something so simple! </p> <p>@MrsCB: haha yea, that would be terrible. I didn't think about it ruining everything but it totally would! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-fire-escape-plan#post-591987 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:22:08 +0000 Bookish 591987@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in a 1-story house, so our plan would be to grab LO and go out the nursery window, which opens up onto the front of the house and cul-de-sac. It's a big window only a foot or so off the ground, easy to open and get out of (we've actually had conversations joking about how LO will have an easy time sneaking out!!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-fire-escape-plan#post-591970 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:16:34 +0000 ShootingStar 591970@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: My house is an attached townhouse, and in my state if you have a certain amount of units together, you have to have them. And no, thank God I've never set them off! OMG that would be horrible. It's actually a huge fear of mine that something will hit them (and and break the little glass tube) and set them off in the entire house, ruining everything. It might even set off our neighbors too, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-fire-escape-plan#post-591943 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:10:04 +0000 .twist. 591943@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsCB: wow! that is super cool. I wish more houses came with sprinklers! Ever accidentally set them off? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-fire-escape-plan#post-591739 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:20:46 +0000 ShootingStar 591739@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have sprinklers in our house, so i've never worried about having a fire escape plan. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-fire-escape-plan#post-591732 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:18:24 +0000 Alivoo01 591732@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't have a plan, but we're in a one story home. It's just me and the hubby right now so we'd probably get out of there ASAP, probably through the front door. Once LO is here, we'll probably implement something more in stone like an agreed upon meeting place. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-fire-escape-plan#post-591723 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:15:40 +0000 keiki_mama 591723@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live on the third floor of a complex and we have two fire escape ladders, one in the hall and one in our bedroom. In the event of an emergency the plan is for me to back carry LO in our Ergo go down the ladder first and DH will follow. We have never practiced... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-fire-escape-plan#post-591709 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:10:25 +0000 mediagirl 591709@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a fire ladder under our bed. We haven't practiced a fire plan, though. Our lo's room is on the other side of the house from us. I think we would run through fire to get over to her room (and hopefully remember to take the ladder with us...) It's a good drop from our bedrooms to the ground. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-fire-escape-plan#post-591662 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:55:31 +0000 .twist. 591662@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A house in our neighbourhood burnt down on Saturday night. All 3 of the houses floors were completely engulfed in flames and even though neighbours (and fire fighters looked) tried to get anyone in the house out there was a women (a mother) who was found dead in the basement once the fire was put out. </p> <p>The article talked about how obviously the fire departments feel terrible about fatalities due to fire because they try to be so diligent about getting anyone and everyone out. They also mentioned trying to educate people on fire escape plans. </p> <p>We do not have one. There is a ladder under our bed that can be used on our window to get us out if we needed, but we do not have any known "plan". </p> <p>Do you have a fire escape plan for your home? </p>