Do Not Get Burned, Be Prepared!

• A rental property manager may not go through fire and water to protect his tenants from danger, but he should take measures to insure fire safety. In the event of a fire, preparation can save lives of those living in the rental property. A rental property manager cannot always prevent fires, but can implement a response plan to prevent fatalities. Fire spreads quickly so every second counts. Within thirty seconds a small fire can get completely out of control. Soon after that a property rental can become filled with black smoke and engulfed in flames. There is no time for a rental property manager and his residents to think. They must just do. And to be able to just do, a rental property manager must be prepared and well practiced. By law, a rental property manager should have smoke detectors installed throughout the rental property. This is usually the rental property managers first line of defense against a fire. If smoke detectors are not properly working, a property manager and his tenants will not receive warning if a fire breaks out. Smoke detectors should be tested quite often and conducted yearly by a fire inspector. If it is a hardwired unit the back up battery needs to be checked every two weeks and replaced yearly. If the fire alarm starts sounding, a rental property manager and the tenants should know the fastest route to safety. Every new tenant should be shown all the nearest exits. The best plan is to practice using the escape routes with the tenant. The plan ought to have more than one route in case the primary exit is blocked by fire and smoke. Practice will benefit during an actual fire. Tenants might find all escape routes filled with smoke and must escape with little visibility. This increases the possibility of getting out of the rental property unharmed if a rental property manager and his tenants are physically familiar with escape routes. A good idea would be to practice escaping with a blind fold. If a rental property becomes totally engulfed in flames, the only escape route might be a window. As a precaution, a rental property manager must make sure every window opens with ease. If bars are installed on the windows to keep intruders out, test the quick release for proper function and make sure the tenants know how to remove them. Otherwise, they may trap a tenant in a deadly fire. Test all windows including those in hallways without a fire escape, because the only way out may be from a fire truck ladder. A rental property manager should hold fire safety meetings a few times a year. This way a new tenant is not excluded from fire safety education. The meetings should discuss the following fire safety rules:

Get out immediately. Do not waste critical time collecting valuables. If someone does, there is a good chance they will not enjoy them anyway. It is possible that every escape route will be full of smoke. A property manager needs to teach tenants how to crawl through smoke.

• Check the door for heat before opening it. Though they teach this stuff in kindergarten, a rental property manager should never assume his tenants know what to do. If the door is warm there is a good chance there is a fire on the other side.
• Designate a meeting place. If everyone in the rental property meets at the same place a rental property manager can tell the firemen that there may still be people in the building.
• Once out, stay out. Everyone should feel lucky they had escaped the first time. A rental property manager ought to thank his lucky stars.

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