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- This is why we bought a TT with a front and a rear door. My parents loss their Trotwood TT in '68 to a fire, after that they bought a Holiday Rambler with two doors so if they are sleeping they can escape right out the door.
We do use the lock on the inside, never lock it with a key outside.
One other thing we always do when we travel. We pack a bag of essentials for a couple of days.
Travel size toothpaste, shampoo, extra tooth brushes and two days worth of clothes, cash and a current credit card.
We have it in a duffle bag that always stays behind the middle seat in the excursion.
Another thing I do when we travel, and I only do this because of the pictures of a TT after a crash and what they look like, I put my favorite and best jewelry in a baggy and put it in my purse. The lap top goes in it's bag and goes behind the other middle seat.
I tell my daughter where all this is just in case.
Sher - No alternate way out except the door here, like the vast majority of RVs. What I did do with fire in mind was replace the piddly little extinguisher that came with the trailer with one more than double in size.
The original was moved to right next to the bed. I also have a fire blanket for the stove that I stole from our boat galley. - For that reason olone, we like the RV s with drivers door and passengers door. Now it's all happy-camping
- Good post there Graydon.
Before hitting the road this winter, I am gonna have the prop - there and the tip about the blanket is super also. :C - Searched and dug up this thread because this subject came up last week whilst camping.
DW and I came up with a tentative emergency plan for bailing out.
There's great ideas in this thread and we will implement.
One small item we decided to keep an emergency box in the truck (or elsewhere) with essentials in case of loss. - One thing I've considered in light of this thread is the possibility of placing the picnic table under an emergency exit window at night.
Getting out an emergency exit window is definitely an acrobatic challenge and there is are pretty good odds that I'd get hurt during a hasty escape. Having the picnic table under the emergency exit at night would likely save from having a couple broken bones.
I am going to definitely try this out next time I am camping. - If your handy, the "macadoodle" (prop rod) could be mounted right beside, below,or above, the window with some type of hardware clip tool like this:
- You are more than likely going to injure yourself if you make an escape heading out of an escape window, small or large(the windows). I'll take that over the alternative. Think about your escape path. The prop rod is a great idea but my body pushing through the hatch is all i will need. Know where you are going to land. Don't bail out thinking a quick bounce on the pad will hurt just a little when you land on your campsite pedestal. If you have a fire and you are cut off from your door you will have no idea where that prop rod is....you are going to get that window open and be gone. We're talking seconds. I have sat and stared at the tiny bedroom escape window. Yea, wife and I will fit through it but there is no rolling over the side and dropping out as you hang on to the edge. It's head first or feet first and body dragging over the sill and over 5 feet to the ground. It's a great video that makes you think. I would have never thought of the blanket to protect the edge from scraping all my skin off!
- For you members who have two doors on your unit. On my Jayco if the door is locked from the out side, it can not be opened from the inside.:E
Now who ever thought that one up deserved a bonus at the end of the year. So I always check the door by the bedroom before I turn in the for the night.
Bob - Look up on You Tube, RV fires or something close. Spectacular fireworks when the propane tanks vent before they explode.
As Veebeys said, very fast and very hot.
Good topic!
