Share a fire escape when a director of a telecommunications company burns

Smoke is one of the main reasons many people die in fires, so you need to immediately pocket the secret to avoid choking because of this smoke to save your life and your loved ones.

Through the apartment fire in Saigon, Asia director Minh Tran - Telecom has shared practical experiences on fire escape method.

He also stressed that with this experience, he saved the lives of four people in his family in a fire.

It is known that this method has been saved by the police department of police in Dong Da District, Hanoi to make popular documents in fire prevention and fighting work.

According to Mr. Minh Tran, this fire escape method is "very simple" and everyone and family have good conditions to minimize the damage to themselves and their families.

It should be emphasized that smoke is one of the main reasons many people die in fires.

Specifically, when burning, a lot of toxic gases will be produced CO 2 , CO, ammonia, organic acids . in which CO 2 and CO are the main causes of death. They will cause the body to consume physical strength due to lack of oxygen, so the more the victim is struggling, the faster he will reach the door of Tu. Therefore:

The first thing you need to do is keep calm. Most people when they see smoke fall into a state of panic, rushing to find their way out without knowing that the risk of "smoke death" stalking them is very high.

Because of the dense toxic smoke and tight indoor pressure, it will increase very quickly, so you need to immediately open the door in the direction where there is no fire to reduce the pressure. You should be careful not to open the door in the direction of fire and smoke entering the room.

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Note: do not open the door in the direction of fire

Use a damp cloth to cover your mouth to help prevent inhalation of smoke that causes suffocation. Keeping a bottle of water in the room is also helpful in this emergency.

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Just use a damp cloth to cover your nose, crawl and crawl as you move to an emergency exit - a life saving secret when the apartment is on fire

You can also take measures to avoid choking because the smoke is very simple as follows.

The rescue tool here is simply the mattress you are sleeping on.

You take a mattress (blue as the illustration) erected at an angle of about 45 degrees and you go inside.

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In the window case : you will leave a gap in the top about 30 cm so that the smoke can slip through the mattress and rise to the outside.

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For balconies : you will erect a mattress so that its bottom can reach the floor and walls and then get into it to avoid smoke.

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When you avoid poison smoke, you have up to 90% chance of surviving in critical time in seconds.

In addition, according to the advice of rescue experts, you also need to remember to determine the exact location of the flame, the location of the smoke source . In case of smoke from above, or right in your floor, quickly move to the exit door and escape downstairs. In particular, do not use the elevator to escape when the building appears fire.

What if smoke comes from the lower floors? Smoke has a rather fast loading rate - about 122m / min. So if smoke comes from the lower floor, it is likely that the staircase has been blocked by smoke.

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Do not use the elevator to exit when the building appears fire.

You are on a high floor, find a way to move up the rooftop, because moving in a smoke-filled environment for too long will cause you to collapse before you exit.

And yet, when you arrive, you need to determine the wind direction to choose the appropriate refuge angle to reduce the impact of the fire like heat, smoke blowing . From there, we will have more time to wait. rescue rescue.

At the same time, you should stay away from asphyxia spaces such as closed rooms and explosive locations such as gas cylinders, refrigerators, air-conditioners . When moving you have to bend down or crawl, crawl.