What to do if a fire starts

• Cover your mouth and nose with any cloth, preferably wet
• Get away from a fire
• Do not use an elevator
• Do not hit the windows to prevent the access of excess oxygen
• Do not try to extinguish flammable liquids (gasoline, kerosene) and connected electrical appliances using water

Indoors, in a high-rise building, in public places

• If a fire outbreak is small, try to cope with the fire yourself using all the available means: fire extinguishers, any dense fabric, sand, earth from flower pots, water, etc.
• If an electrical wiring insulation burns, disconnect the power grid in a shield
• Immediately report an incident to neighbors or employees in other offices and initiate evacuation
• Disconnect the electrical equipment
• If possible, leave a premise and close the doors
• Help children and elderly people to go outside
• If there is smoke in the entrance or corridor, move to the exit by crawling
• Get to a safe place
• If it is not possible to leave a premise by using the stairs, seal an entrance door from the inside using a wet cloth so that smoke does not penetrate, then go out to the balcony and wait for the arrival of the fire service
• Close the windows and doors so that a draft won`t intensify a fire

In a vehicle or public transport

• Immediately inform a driver about the fire
• Stop a vehicle, turn off the engine, put on the brake
• Leave a vehicle. To do it in public transport, use emergency hatches and side windows
• Try to extinguish the fire using a fire extinguisher, sand or snow before the arrival of firefighters
• If there is a fire in the hood, do not open it without a fire extinguisher in your hands (an influx of oxygen during the opening will increase the flame)
• Move away from a vehicle, as a fuel tank may explode

In the steppe or forest

• Try to extinguish the fire using dense material, earth, sand, knock down the flame with a bunch of twigs or branches of broad-leaf trees, pour water, etc.
• After putting out the fire, do not leave until you are sure that the fire has not flared up again
• If the fire is strong, move away from it, moving perpendicular to the direction of its spread
• If it is impossible to leave, and there is a pond nearby, enter it and cover yourself with wet clothes
• In an open space, bend down to the ground, where the air is less smoky

What should I tell an operator when calling 101 or 112?

• Address of fire or inflammation
• The object of fire (in the yard, in an apartment, in a warehouse, etc)
• What exactly is burning (TV, furniture,etc)
• If necessary, number of an entrance/apartment, number of floors in a building and a floor where a fire started, what is the most convenient route to a place, an entrance code to a territory, etc.
• Surname and phone number.

Speak clearly and calmly!

When detecting the first signs of a fire and a smell of smoke, call a fire department by dialing 101 or the rescue service by dialing 112