Locked inside by entry assist handle

fpresto wrote:

.C-Bears wrote:
My plan is simple, we are grabbing the fire extinguisher and crawling out the door.

I truly wish you well but using your scenario of waking up to an RV full of smoke, your plan has very little chance of working. Forget the fire extinguisher; grabbing it just wastes precious seconds that you don't have. The smoke will kill you long before the flames. Plus the extinguishers' provided in our RVs are useless for anything larger than a piece of paper burning if they work at all. Until you have been through training including smoke chambers people don't understand how disabling and disorienting toxic smoke can be. Hopefully your smoke detector will alert you well before the RV fills with smoke. In that case using the door may work unless the fire is near the door.

First of all, the smoke alarms that came with my rig get new batteries every year and are tested on a regular basis. In addition, I have a smoke detector installed in my basement storage area. My chances of waking up with the trailer already full of smoke is less than possibly yours.

Secondly, I do not just depend on the single small extinguisher that came with my 5th wheel, but I will depend on the other three I have purchased and placed around the rig.

My preventive measures work for me. If someone coughs outside my fiver in the middle of the night it wakes me up. I feel very confident that one or all of my four detectors will wake me up and allow me and my wife the 10 seconds we need to run out the door.

If other folks want to depend on old detectors, a single factory installed fire extinguisher, and escape windows then that is okay too.