Have A Wonderful Evening - A Babysitter's Guide To Fire Safety (1968)

[Music] [Music] Hi, sweetheart. We overflew St. Louis and I'm back in tonight. You still want to go to the party at the club? Okay. Get Betty Joe lined up to sit with the kids and I'll be there in a flash. Okay. Love you. Bye-bye. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Hi, hun. Oh, hun. We can't get Betty Joe tonight. Well, we told her it was off and she's tied up with some church group, but her sister Evelyn's agreed to sub. Okay. Well, Evelyn's 19 or 20, isn't she? Well, that's even better then. You tell her we appreciate it. I'll give her a call back and you'd better double check with the club. Okay. Okay, then we're all set. Thank you. [Applause] Oh, hi, Mr. Baker. Did you get those screens fixed yet? Yep, Cam. All fixed. I was wondering who I should give the bill to. Well, I think Mrs. Barl has a check already made out. [Music] Oh, I don't think I'll have any trouble. I'm sure you won't. But in any case, you're all set. Have a wonderful evening and don't worry. Thank you. I'm sure you'll do fine. And the boys are ready for bed. Okay. Fine. Yeah. Good night. Good night. Thank you. Here's one. Once upon a time. Oh, I've heard that one. No, this is once upon a different time. Oh, once upon a different time, there was a funny little mouse who was especially quiet, even for a mouse. [Music] [Applause] One color and the top is another. Can you open that? Plan two escape routes from every room. I think we're better getting back. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Just got in. Am I disturbing you? Not a bit. Captain Rock and I just got back from motorcycles. Pretty awful, aren't they? But tell me about your Lee. They're not going away again. Dawn paying a call on that scoundrel. It's got to wangle some sort of a truce out of it. Oh, John. The job will work. You wouldn't realize this, but I just don't want you to leave. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Let's stop by the barrels place if it's all right with you. My sister is babysitting for them. She's not used to it and I want to see how she's getting along. It was really a lot of fun tonight. [Music] Look, it it's a fire. Hey, the Browns are still up across the street. You go call the fire department. I'm going to go around to the back of the house. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Oh, I was just going to bed when I saw the smoke. Sarah's calling the fire department. The boy's room is up there on this side, isn't it? Yeah. Let me go, Mr. Black. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Al, get down. The smoke isn't as thick as the floor. Go go go. [Applause] [Music] Great climb. [Music] The children are asleep in the back room, Mrs. Barl. They'll be all right. Well, I I guess you got two calls. I sent my girlfriend to the Browns, and Mrs. Black here phoned as well. But in the babysitter orientation course, you said not to go into a burning building or wait in a burning building to call the fire department. Right. You go to the nearest outside phone or street alarm box. Seems to me you did a good job of instructing the boys. Billy tells me you told him to go out on the roof of the porch with his brother in case of fire and not to try to run through a burning house. From what you said a few minutes ago, Chief, we should all have escape routes figured out around our homes. You're 100% correct. That's one of the most important things we can do. I was sure we'd never have anything like a fire. You never think it can happen to you. In the babysitter orientation course, we're told there are hundreds of home fires every day. You're supposed to close the bedroom door to keep smoke and hot gas out. If you smell smoke or think there is a fire on the other side of the door, don't try to open it until you have felt the door. If it's hot to the touch, don't try to open it at all. If it's not hot, open it carefully. In case there is heavy smoke out there, shut the door and take some other escape route. Where there is smoke, crawl on your hands and knees. Heat and smoke rise. Air is nearly always pure and cooler near the floor. More people are suffocated by smoke and hot gases than are ever burned. And of course, you don't ever leave small children home alone. And don't go to sleep. If there is a fire, get them out first and fast. Don't wait to dress them. Just wrap them in blankets and get them all in one trip. Also, if you think you smell smoke like you did, Evelyn, it's safest to get the kids ready to go or take them to a neighbors so the smoke can be investigated. It's really training for life or death situations when you think of it. We all ought to have it. Basic we missed is planning escape routes. How do you get out of second story room safely, Chief? Well, Captain, your children's room is ideal with windows opening on a low roof. But where there's no porch or the like, one solution may be a folding escape ladder. Folding ladders have limitations, of course. You must be agile to use one. And if there's smoke or flame coming from a lower window you must pass, the ladder may not be usable. But lacking a ladder, you can hold the children at arms length and drop in the ground or in a shrubbery and there is very little chance of them being hurt. After all, it's only a drop of 6 or 8 ft actually. Then when the children are safely taken care of, you can hang by your hands and you'll find that that drop isn't nearly as bad as it looked when you were standing up. I never knew there was so much to babysitting. I think we can all begin to realize how important it is to have an accredited babysitter. A girl like Evelyn's in a pretty tough spot under these circumstances. We're developing a citywide and community babysitter program, and anybody who takes care of small children should attend it. I want to do it. There are a number of times when I'm called on to sit with children. I believe they mentioned something about this out at the base. Yes, a good many military bases have programs like this. and fire departments across the country have babysitting orientation programs. Well, I think the next thing on our program is to get these girls home so they can get some sleep. Oh, thank goodness everybody is all right. [Music]