What will you do if there is a big fire at your place? Of course, people will say touchwood, it will not happen. Below are the fire safety tips which people seldom know.
1st fire safety question: During fire, we should use wet towel to cover mouth and nose. After make the towel wet, should we twist the towel to make it dry?
Fire safety tips: Of course, you need to twist to dry the towel. A lot of fire safety tips teach you to make the towel wet but never tell you to twist the towel. If you do not twist to make it dry, before you choked by smoke, you will be choked by water.
2nd fire safety question: If I do not have water to make the towel wet, should I pee on the towel or spit saliva on the towel?
Fire safety tips: You can do that but it is not necessary. Below are the reasons:
-In emergency, it is very difficult to have urine to pee.
-Time to escape from fire is 3 minutes. Do you want to waste 2 minutes to pee?
-Expert says that the effectiveness is almost similar between wet towel and dry towel.
-Urine is smelly and nasty.
-Do you think that you have so much saliva to wet the towel?
3rd fire safety question: There is fire and smoke inside and outside of the room causing me unable to run out. At the same time, the room has commode / close stool, should I put my head inside it to get fresh air?
Fire safety tips: Of course, you can do that but it is not a good idea. Normally, wardrobe is closed all the time. So, the wardrobe has remaining fresh air. You can hide in the wardrobe. At the same time, use hard object to knock or make sound to let everybody know that you are hiding inside wardrobe. Most important thing is that do not fall asleep.
4th fire safety question: During fire, should I crawl with low position?
Fire safety tips: Yes. You may do that. The purpose to crawl at low position is because fresh air is at the bottom. Anyway, please do not do this at public area. When in fire emergency, everybody is running. If you are crawling with low position, you may be stepped by other people. If possible, get out quickly with low position following the wall.
5th fire safety question: Should I open eyes in fire site?
Fire safety tips: If it is dark, there is no point to open your eyes. High temperature smoke may burn your eyes.
6th fire safety question: During fire, should I use plastic bag to keep fresh air and cover on my head?
Fire safety tips: If the fire temperature is not high, you may do like that. Anyway if the fire temperature is high, please do not do like this. This is because the plastic bag will melt and stick on the skin. The most important thing is that it is very difficult to remove plastic from skin.
7th fire safety question: If I am a lady, what is the first thing should I do during fire?
Fire safety tips: You should remove your stocking or panty hose. This is because stocking or panty hose will create similar effect like plastic bag.
8th fire safety question: Should I put fire extinguisher in kitchen because kitchen easy to generate fire?
Fire safety tips: This is not a good idea. This is because when kitchen is in fire, you will not be able to go into kitchen. So, put your fire extinguisher outside the kitchen. The best place to put fire extinguisher is in bedroom. If it is fire at night time, you can immediately get the fire extinguisher. If there is no fire, you can use it to fight robbers.
