Fire Safety

Well, we came back from the FMCA conference with a bag full of fire safety equipment. John went to a two hour seminar about emergency preparedness in a motorhome. Mac, "the fire guy", made a believer out of John and after having had several friends motorhomes go up in smoke, literally, we decided that we should have a Fire Emergency Plan (as well as $170 in new fire extinguishers, smoke detectors, and even a glass breaking hammer!)

Amazingly, the motorhome manufacturer doesn't provide you with a fire extinguisher capable of dealing with the most common motorhome fire - electrical caused by the 12 volt wiring (most often in the dashboard). We also have had friends who had their motorhome go up in flames from an electical short in their refrigerator. Needless to say, this got our attention.

So, today, John installed our new fire extinguishers - in the entryway, kitchen and bedroom, added a smoke detector to the front of the coach, and added detectors in the cargo compartments --then we ran through our escape plan.

Check out this link for more info on fire safety--it could save your life!

http://www.rvtravel.com/publish/firerv.shtml