Fires can engulf a home in 60 seconds! Are you prepared with a quick and safe method of fire escape? You can't afford to be trapped in a burning building. Smoke detectors and heat alarms may warn you, but you still need a safe method of escape from a burning structure. If you are in a home or building with a code specified fixed fire escape, consider yourself fortunate. If not, you need to consider how you would escape a fire.