By: iPadfanzz staff on April 16, 2013
Disasters often strike with little or no warning. Knowing what to do in a disaster or disaster-like situation: whether it be a fire, flood, or hailstorm, bomb strike, can bring someone to safety in time. Getting in touch with loved ones can be difficult after a disaster because cell signals and land lines can be jammed with the massive amount of calls flowing in and out of an area. Local officials and relief workers will be on the scene after a disaster, but they cannot reach everyone right away. It is important to remain your cool and it is better to chart out a strategy to get quickly to the scene or the incident area as soon as possible.
Here are some of the tips. Remember to share them with others:
1. Pick up the place to meet:
- Right outside your home in case of a sudden emergency, like a fire.
- Outside your neighborhood in case you can't return home. Everyone must know that location (the address and phone number.)
2. Ask a friend or "family contact" who is located in the vicinity of the incident (if it happens to be outside the state where you are living). After a disaster, it's often easier to call long distance. Other family members should call this person and tell them where they are. Everyone must know your contact person's phone number.
3. If you have managed to get in touch with that person, ask him/her to move to some safer place nearby. He/she can crawl under a sturdy table or a solid object if things are falling around you, and remain there for at least one minute. Tell them to stay away from glass or fixtures, like windows, mirrors, cabinets, and electrical equipments.
4. Follow the orders of police or safety personnel. If an evacuation is ordered, leave the building as soon as you can.
5. Do not move seriously injured persons unless they are in obvious, immediate danger, such as a building collapse or fire.
6. Do not go near gas lines, fire hazards, or kitchens.
7. Always lay flat. Most explosives used by suicide bombers are designed to burst in a flower bouquet pattern to throw the shrapnel horizontally between two and six feet above the ground. It increases the chances of hitting the torso and head by a shrapnel. Therefore, the best place to be in an event of an explosion is to lay flat on the ground.
8. Keep your mouth open and breathe in small intervals. The most lethal aspect in an explosion is not shrapnel or heat, it is the blast overpressure.
9. One event can be followed by another, so do not rush towards the blast scene.
10. If you or others have life-threatening injuries, such as severe bleeding, difficulty breathing, chest pain or burns, provide or seek first aid and get help from officials or others at the scene.
11. Listen to emergency officials at the scene.
Disasters often strike with little or no warning. Knowing what to do in a disaster or disaster-like situation: whether it be a fire, flood, or hailstorm, bomb strike, can bring someone to safety in time. Getting in touch with loved ones can be difficult after a disaster because cell signals and land lines can be jammed with the massive amount of calls flowing in and out of an area. Local officials and relief workers will be on the scene after a disaster, but they cannot reach everyone right away. It is important to remain your cool and it is better to chart out a strategy to get quickly to the scene or the incident area as soon as possible.
Here are some of the tips. Remember to share them with others:
1. Pick up the place to meet:
- Right outside your home in case of a sudden emergency, like a fire.
- Outside your neighborhood in case you can't return home. Everyone must know that location (the address and phone number.)
2. Ask a friend or "family contact" who is located in the vicinity of the incident (if it happens to be outside the state where you are living). After a disaster, it's often easier to call long distance. Other family members should call this person and tell them where they are. Everyone must know your contact person's phone number.
3. If you have managed to get in touch with that person, ask him/her to move to some safer place nearby. He/she can crawl under a sturdy table or a solid object if things are falling around you, and remain there for at least one minute. Tell them to stay away from glass or fixtures, like windows, mirrors, cabinets, and electrical equipments.
4. Follow the orders of police or safety personnel. If an evacuation is ordered, leave the building as soon as you can.
5. Do not move seriously injured persons unless they are in obvious, immediate danger, such as a building collapse or fire.
6. Do not go near gas lines, fire hazards, or kitchens.
7. Always lay flat. Most explosives used by suicide bombers are designed to burst in a flower bouquet pattern to throw the shrapnel horizontally between two and six feet above the ground. It increases the chances of hitting the torso and head by a shrapnel. Therefore, the best place to be in an event of an explosion is to lay flat on the ground.
8. Keep your mouth open and breathe in small intervals. The most lethal aspect in an explosion is not shrapnel or heat, it is the blast overpressure.
9. One event can be followed by another, so do not rush towards the blast scene.
10. If you or others have life-threatening injuries, such as severe bleeding, difficulty breathing, chest pain or burns, provide or seek first aid and get help from officials or others at the scene.
11. Listen to emergency officials at the scene.
