Teaching children fire safety rules
In our modern reality, the probability of getting into a life-threatening situation is very high. By letting the children go for a walk, on a visit or leaving the children at home alone, we hope that nothing bad will happen and nothing will threaten their life and health.
Unfortunately, statistics show that a fire caused by children, fires in which children die, is not uncommon at all. So what do children need to know about fire safety? When you need to start teaching a child the rules of behavior during a fire, it is a fire, not a fire. The answer is one: from early childhood. It is from that period when the child begins to understand his actions, when he begins to realize his actions.
The main thing that a child needs to understand is that open fire is very dangerous, you need to be very careful with it, it can cause great harm, it can hurt, or it can take your life.
The child should learn what to do, how to behave so that there is no fire and fire, how to behave when there is a fire. How not to panic. Very often, at the time of the fire, the child gets scared and hides. This arises because the child does not know what to do, what danger threatens him. When there is no knowledge, panic arises. The main thing is not to panic. Avoiding danger is easier. If you act calmly and reasonably. Panic is always a loss of the ability to find a reasonable way out.
The task of adults is to give the child this knowledge he needs. The main thing is the simplicity of the presentation, maybe in the form of a game. It is necessary that the child receives the most necessary knowledge without fear. Fear breeds panic!
The most important thing that everyone should know:
if the fire lasts more than two minutes, you need to leave the room where it occurred.
children should understand that it is impossible to hide, it is dangerous.
adults should understand the following — you can not leave a child alone indoors, it can lead to trouble.
Recall how to act during a fire.
If a fire occurs, immediately inform the fire department by calling "101". When calling firefighters, it is necessary to clearly inform the name of the locality or district, the name of the street, the house number, the floor where the fire occurred. It is necessary to explain what is burning: Explain who is calling, give your phone number.
If you don't have a phone in your house and you can't leave your house or apartment, call for help by shouting "Fire!", attract the attention of passers-by, neighbors.
If the ignition source is small, then it can be extinguished with clear and confident actions. In the room, it is necessary to turn off electricity and gas as much as possible.
Remember: there are always means in the house to extinguish a fire - blankets, coarse cloth, as well as buckets and other water containers.
At the same time:
do not open windows and doors, because the influx of fresh air supports gorenje.
do not extinguish electrical appliances connected to the network with water.
If it's a TV, then a heated kinescope can explode and injure you. you need to cover it with a thick blanket or cover it with sand, you can use soil from a flower.
If in the first minutes you cannot cope with the fire, then it is urgent to leave the room and help people get out of the room. Start immediately removing children, the elderly, and sick people from the fire zone.
First of all, people are removed from those premises where their lives are most threatened by fire conditions, as well as from the upper floors of the building, and first of all, younger children, the elderly and the disabled are removed.
In case of a fire, smoke accumulates in the upper part of the room, therefore, in case of heavy smoke, it is necessary to bend down or lie on the floor covering your nose and mouth with a wet handkerchief or towel, because toxic combustion products with warm air rise up, and move on all fours or crawl to the exit along the wall, so as not to lose direction. Gorenje
When clothes catch fire, it is necessary to wrap the victim with a thick cloth or coat, a blanket, preferably wet, or pour water over him. The flame can also be knocked down by rolling on the ground, first protecting the head.
If the stairs are smoky, it is necessary to cover the doors of the rooms from where the smoke penetrates into the stairs tightly, then open the windows on the stairwell, or knock out the windows to release the smoke and give fresh air, and. Do not try to exit through a smoky corridor or stairs (smoke is very toxic), hot gases can burn the lungs.
If there is a fire on the stairs or it is heavily smoky, then you should go out on the balcony or go to the window and attract the attention of passers-by, first sealing the door as much as possible. Rescue should be carried out on balconies, outdoor stationary, attached and extendable ladders.
You can not jump out of the windows of the building, starting from the third floor, because injuries are inevitable.
Regardless of whether a fire has started in your apartment or in another part of your house, warn the firefighters by phone, do not assume that others have already done it.
Never forget about the danger of fires and do not hope that this cannot happen to you.
DES of Ulan district.