point where your skin starts to blister. so while experts say you should drop to the floor and cover your skin if you re initially trapped in a fire, those decisions aren t effective when time is running out. dropping to his belly really wouldn t buy him much more time. however, what you can do is as low as you get you always have moments of a little more safety than you would if you were standing up. the correct answer is, a, if you can, lower yourself to another floor. with only seconds left, the construction worker makes a split second decision to drop from the fifth floor to the fourth floor. oh, no, oh, no. he had the ability and the agility to make tat decision and was lucky enough to be able to land on that lower landing. obviously, not everybody is going to be able to do that. he buys himself more time, but not much. the fire captain frantically waves his arms and motions for the driver to close the distance
firefighters are coming, but you need to make a decision before they arrive. what should you do? a, lower yourself to another floor of the building from a window, door, or balcony. b, get on your symptomage and lay low. or c, cover your mouth and exposed skin to protect yourself from smoke and flames. you have to imagine yourself cooking at home and opening your oven. most people cook at 350 degrees and you figure a fire anywhere from 700 to 800 to 1,000 degrees. true or false? flames can burn skin without even making contact. the answer is true. even if the actual flames never touch you, prolonged exposure to extreme heat is enough to scorch skin even through your clothes. it becomes what we call thermal burns and due to the heat of that fire your skin could start burning. you could start developing redness based on the heat to a
whatever it may be under the water that you can t see that if i were going to try to swim, i was probably going to die. even if he s the best of swimmers, it doesn t matter. that water is very, very dangerous and even challenging for the experts and the people like us that train in it all of the time. as with swimming, climbing on the roof can also be dangerous. you can shift the weight and tip the whole car over or it could roll naturally. either way, you re trapped. oh, my god. oh, my god. the answer is c. grab onto a tree or passing structure through the open window. is there something you can grab? is there a post nearby that you can reach out and grab or if the car floats over, against a wall or something? and be prepared to spring onto the window and grab onto that wall. you have split second thinking here. you have to get out of that situation. you need to climb to safety, but what are you going to grab ahold of? just be ready to make that decision in an instant becaus
most everybody s been in the ocean and they ve been pounded by a huge wave and they feel that force. they can t get up until the water recedes and a moving water, river, or stream or flood control channel does not give you that relief. it never releases, so that force is constantly on you and you can t get up. that s where most of your drownings occur. you are trapped in your car and being carried away in a flash flood. what should be your first move? a, unbuckle your seat belt and open the windows. b, push open the door and swim away from the car. or c, keep the windows rolled up and stay with the car. you re not going to be able to push the door open against the weight of that water. remember how heavy that water is. remember it s an incompressible fluid. it doesn t just push aside like you do the air when you open the door. so that door will pretty much be staying closed. which makes b an impossible decision and staying with the car is no better. the car is basically a dea
vehicle with window coverings due to the fact that those are combustible materials, and those materials itself will start to catch fire just based on the radiated heat. and rolling down your windows will only let the elements in faster. so if you chose b, you made the correct decision. keep those windows closed. what you want to do is try to stay encapsulated inside that vehicle as best as you possibly can. it s imperative that you ensure that your windows are fully closed, that visibility is maintained. it s going to be difficult to see but what you need to do is slow down as best as you can and ensure you have space between you and possibly another vehicle in front of you. after losing track of their relatives, eric and his brother barely make it through the firestorm, escaping their car just seconds before it s engulfed in flames. turns out their mother is nearby and witnesses their escape from the vehicle. what i see is the kids, you know, with the car burning.