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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to do a safety check in your home.

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Speaker 1: Don't wait for an emergency to figure out what to

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Speaker 1: do in an emergency or to make sure everything is working.

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Speaker 1: You need a plan to keep your household safe. Many

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Speaker 1: of us have more of a vague sense of whether

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Speaker 1: we have emergency supplies in our homes and whether everyone

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Speaker 1: knows what to do in an emergency, but it may

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Speaker 1: have been a while since everything got checked. There is

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Speaker 1: never a perfect time to think about safety. You can

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Speaker 1: do it anytime, and, as we often discuss on this show,

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Speaker 1: things you can do when her often happen when never.

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Speaker 1: So how about this weekend block off an hour or

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Speaker 1: so to think through safety issues. Maybe you will never

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Speaker 1: need anything you check on or think about, and then

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Speaker 1: you can count yourself very lucky and if you do

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Speaker 1: need this information someday, you will feel very lucky that

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Speaker 1: you have it. First thing, do you have smoke alarms

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Speaker 1: everywhere you need them? Do they work? Check any carbon

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Speaker 1: monoxide detectors too? Then do you have fire extinguishers? Have

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Speaker 1: they expired? Do you know how they work. Next, do

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Speaker 1: you know how to get out of your house quickly

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Speaker 1: if you need to from everywhere in the house. Make

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Speaker 1: sure adults and kids know all the exits of the

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Speaker 1: house and where to meet up in the event of

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Speaker 1: a fire or another emergency. Talk about how you will

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Speaker 1: evacuate any family members who will need help. That includes pets.

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Speaker 1: Not all emergencies involved evacuating, so you should make sure

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Speaker 1: you have a plan for sheltering at your house for

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Speaker 1: a while too. Do you have water, some nonperishable food,

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Speaker 1: flashlights and batteries, enough diapers and wipes, or extra medication

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Speaker 1: for anyone who needs such things. Once you are confident

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Speaker 1: in your safety plan for your home, you might move

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Speaker 1: onto your car. Make sure you have supplies you might

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Speaker 1: need on the road, like jumper cables or an ice

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Speaker 1: scraper and snow shovel if you drive places where those

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Speaker 1: might be required. My family sometimes laughs at me, but

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Speaker 1: I do not let anyone go on a car trip

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Speaker 1: in winter without a coat, despite their protests that they

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Speaker 1: are going from a heated house to a heated car

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Speaker 1: to a heated other location. When your car breaks down

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Speaker 1: or you get stuck behind an accident on a highway

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Speaker 1: for hours. You will be less miserable if everyone can

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Speaker 1: bundle up. It can also be a good idea to

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Speaker 1: have a first aid kit, plus water and some snacks

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Speaker 1: that will last a long time and aren't harmed by

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Speaker 1: extreme temperatures. I think things like granola bars or peanut

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Speaker 1: butter crackers. None of this needs to take long. A

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Speaker 1: quick check, a quick discussion with your family, maybe a

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Speaker 1: practice runner too, and then a quick trip to the

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Speaker 1: store for anything you are missing. Hopefully no one listening

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Speaker 1: to this will ever need any of these plans. But

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Speaker 1: I recently heard a story of a family that suffered

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Speaker 1: a big house fire, and as the parents were trying

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Speaker 1: to make sure everyone is out, they saw all of

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Speaker 1: their kids calmly standing by the tree or they had

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Speaker 1: agreed to meet. What a blessed saying that was. If

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Speaker 1: you have tips for keeping your family safe, I would

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Speaker 1: love to hear them and share them. You can reach

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Speaker 1: me at Laura at Laura Vanderkam dot com. In the meantime,

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Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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Speaker 1: the most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to

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