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Tiger – 1st Grade
Safe and Smart
Elective
Requirement 4

Den Meeting Exit Plan

Tiger – 1st Grade
Safe and Smart
Elective
Requirement 4

Den Meeting Exit Plan

Snapshot of Activity

The den will work to develop an evacuation plan for their meeting location and identify a meet-up spot. 

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  • Cub Scouts will need to bring their Tiger handbook, page 51 
  • Pencils, one for each Cub Scout 

Before the meeting: 

  1. Become familiar with where smoke detectors are located in your meeting location. 
  2. Become familiar with all the exits from the building you meet in. 
  3. If there are already fire exit plans in each room become familiar with them. 
  4. Identify a meet-up location away from the building you meet at. 

During the meeting: 

  1. Gather the Cub Scouts and adult partners. Share that when there is a fire where they live, it is best to have a plan on what to do before the emergency.  Have them look at page 51 of the Tiger handbook and point out that this is an example of where someone might live.  Have everyone identify the places that you could exit the building such as doors and windows.   
  2. Have the Cub Scouts work with their adult partners to go room by room and identify the closest exit from the building then draw an arrow from that room the closest exit. 
  3. When everyone has completed the activity gather everyone and walk around your meeting location identifying the closest exit from the building for each room you have access to.  If there are fire exit plans in the room point them out. 
  4. Inform Cub Scouts and adult partners of where everyone is to meet up in case of a fire or other emergency.  Remind adult partners not to drive off upon exiting, but to meet everyone at the meet-up location so everyone can be accounted for.  If someone is missing from the meet-up location, rescue personnel may be put in harms way looking for them. 
  5. Walk everyone to the meet-up location.  
  6. Gather the Cub Scouts and adult partners back in the meeting location.  Inform the den that you will now practice the emergency exit plan and meet back up at the meet-up location. Have adult partners with their Cub Scout go into a separate room in the building and wait until they hear you shout “Test! Test! Test!”  When everyone hears “Test!” they are to exit the building using the nearest exit calmly but quickly and meet at the meet-up spot. 
  7. If time permits do this one more time.

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Bray Barnes is a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, Silver
Beaver, Silver Antelope, Silver Buffalo, and Learning for Life Distinguished
Service Award. He received the Messengers of Peace Hero award from
the royal family of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and he’s a life member of
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