Fire in shopping center “Zimnyaya vishnya” on the 25th March 2018 claimed the lives of 64 people, including 41 children. The fire began at children play zone and spread very quickly because of cavities in ceilings and out-dated ventilation system. Fire protection systems didn’t work, and many egress exits were blocked. Short-circuit failure was considered as one of the reason of this fire. Analysis of fires with mass mortality in Russian Federation has shown that this reason is the most common. It’s necessary to develop actual evaluation guidelines for evacuation training with variously-aged children. Russian developments in this field include evaluation guidelines for personal evacuation in case of fire and other emergencies (only adult evacuation) and materials developed in different educational institutions. There is no uniform evaluation guideline for variously-aged children evacuation and requirements for them. Evaluation guideline development should take into account appropriate international experience. Fire safety inspections in schools of Boston (USA) are based on documents developed by school personnel and fire safety inspectors. Actual fire safety check-list is developed. Egress means and exits are inspected. Fire drill must be conducted quarterly (September, December, March and June). All fire scenario and evacuation routes are considered. Plans include information on evacuation for disable students and staff. Authors suggest to develop evacuation guidelines for variously-aged children and implement it.