Responding to alarms for a living has given me a lot of experience on the topic. If there IS a significant fire you'll be outside for a VERY long time, most likely counted in days not hours.
I've been through a few evacuations of my own. I was in a beach bungalow on Christmas Island (south of Hawaii on the equator) when the light switch shorted and ignited the wall. Got that one extinguished by myself. Good thing too as the island doesn't have a fire department. I did move to an un-burnt bungalow!
I had to evacuate my hotel in Whistler for an alarm -- it was about 10 degrees F outside. I was glad to have my heavy boots and parka near the door ready to go. There were some people that went outside without so much as a jacket.
Clothes are kept ready including shoes; passport and other items like wallet are kept in my jacket pocket ready to grab on the way out the door.
On the nightstand I keep an LED flood type flashlight (like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Nebo-Larry-Pocket...cket+work+light) and a Streamlight in my pants pocket (
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0015UC17E/ref...574722&sr=2)