NCERT Solutions for Class 5th The World Around Us Chapter 4 A safe fire drill — Let us practice
Book page 69 Updated on2026-09-19
Q1.
With the teacher’s help, practise a safe fire drill. 1. Move quickly and calmly to the nearest exit route. Do not panic. Do not run. 2. Crawl low under smoke with your mouth covered to breathe cleaner air. 3. Do not hide in closets or bathrooms. 4. Help others if it is safe to do so, but never return to the building once you are outside. 5. Go to the assembly point and stay with your group. 6. Once you have reached the assembly point, alert staff or teachers immediately if anyone is missing, or injured.
Answer
A fire drill is practice, done when there is no fire, so that your body already knows what to do if there ever is one. Take it seriously — laughing and pushing during a drill is the reason drills fail on the real day.
Before the drill
Your teacher shows you the nearest exit from your classroom, and a second exit in case the first is blocked.
You learn what the alarm sounds like — a bell, a siren or a whistle.
Two children are given jobs: a line leader who walks in front, and a last person who checks that the room is empty and shuts the door.
Everyone is told where the assembly point is and where their class stands there.
The drill, step by step
Step
What you do
Why it is done that way
1. The alarm sounds
Stop work at once. Stand up. Leave your bag, books and water bottle on the desk.
Carrying things slows you down and blocks the door
2. Move to the exit
Walk quickly and calmly in a single line to the nearest exit. Do not run and do not push.
Running in a crowd makes people fall; a fall at a doorway blocks everyone behind
3. If there is smoke
Get down on your hands and knees and crawl, with your mouth and nose covered by a cloth.
Smoke rises, so the cleaner air stays near the floor
4. Stairs, never the lift
Always take the staircase.
A lift can stop and trap you
5. Never hide
Do not go into a toilet, a store room or a cupboard.
Rescuers cannot find someone who is hidden
6. Help, but safely
Help a smaller child or a friend who is hurt, if you can do it without danger to yourself.
Two people in trouble is worse than one
7. Never go back
Once you are outside, you stay outside — for a bag, a friend, anything.
Most people who are harmed in fires went back in
8. Assembly point
Go straight there and stand with your own class, in your own place.
So each teacher can count her class quickly
9. Report
Tell your teacher at once if anyone from your class is missing or hurt.
This is the one piece of information the fire brigade needs first
The whole drill in one line: leave everything, walk out, gather, get counted.
Why practise something that may never happen: In a real emergency people do not think clearly — they freeze, or they follow the crowd. A drill puts the right actions into your body beforehand, so that on the day you do not have to decide anything. That is also why the drill must be done properly and in silence: you will do on the day exactly what you practised.
Do it at home too. With your family, decide the way out of your house, a meeting spot outside — the gate, or the neem tree — and check that the cooking gas regulator is turned off every night. It takes ten minutes on one Sunday.