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MESSAGE TO PARENTS: Have children pretend they are crawling low under smoke to get out of a fire area. You can use an old bed sheet, held low to the floor, to simulate smoke. Crawling under a sheet gives the feeling of a billowing "presence" that is quite real.
Crawling under smoke helps avoid breathing superheated air and carbon monoxide which rise toward the ceiling. They are the deadliest killers produced in a fire. STAY DOWN! Crawling on your hands and knees (not your belly) is safer because it keeps you in a zone of safety existing between twelve inches above the floor and below door knob height.
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