Explaining fire risks to a 5yo

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After reading a scary thread on AIBU about the dangers of leaving your washing machine on overnight, I've started thinking hard about fire safety.
We have smoke alarms in three places, and always leave the keys to the front and back doors accessible (which then makes me worry about burglars).
But the one thing I am not sure how to deal with is the fact my 5-y-o absolutely insists on sleeping with her bedroom door wide open.
I worry sick that if the worst did happen, she would be in serious danger before we knew a thing about it.
Ironically, a friend had a roof fire last year - she woke up in the night to find the ceiling over her bed alight.
When we spoke about it, DD said: "That's why I leave my door open, so if my roof is on fire I can get out quicker."
We didn't go into lots of detail, but she picked up from our conversation and the fact the friend lives in the next street and it was obvious her roof was badly damaged.
I always close it at night when I go to bed, but by morning it is always open.
When she was a baby, it wasn't a problem, but now she's big enough to open it herself.
Any advice on how to broach the subject without making it sound like we are expecting fire, and without scaring her too much?

Have a word with your local fire service. How big a risk is your house?

They don't apparently do the door closing/ escape plans until year 5 as it can cause upset and worry.

My Ds did a story in nursery about a firefly who played with matches..that was from the fire department.

My Ds has also recently had fire dept in who talked about fire safety and came home talking about escape plans..

We talked about what to do in the even of a fire. We have done a fire practise ( in a fun way so he understands what to do

My Ds did a story in nursery about a firefly who played with matches..that was from the fire department.

My Ds has also recently had fire dept in who talked about fire safety and came home talking about escape plans..

We talked about what to do in the even of a fire. We have done a fire practise ( in a fun way so he understands what to do

I think it's best to just talk about general preventative measures at that age. My dd is 7 and her class went on a trip to a safety centre where they simulate emergencies and teach them how to deal with them. It's really useful stuff, but several of the class had tearful sleepless nights that week. I had to ask her teacher to reiterate how unlikely it was for them to ever have to put into practice what they had learned.

It's our responsibility to do the worrying and prevention. There's nothing wrong with a brief 'don't play with matches' but things like washing machines and ovens etc which aren't within their control should just be handled by us without concerning them.

Frances the Firefly is on YouTube somewhere

yes that's the fella thanks pinksquash