What to do while fire breaking-out Printable version
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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