My Lucky Escape From a Fire
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Re: My Lucky Escape From a Fire
Like any emergency situation don't grab anything, just get your ass outta there ASAP. You really wanna risk the chance of dying because you can't bear to leave your laptop behind
If you enjoy noise pollution and obnoxious driving practices, Phnom Penh is the place for you!
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Re: My Lucky Escape From a Fire
Captain Bonez wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 3:37 pm Like any emergency situation don't grab anything, just get your ass outta there ASAP. You really wanna risk the chance of dying because you can't bear to leave your laptop behind
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Ask yourself..if you were a firefighter would you put on breathing apparatus before you went into a situation where there was smoke and fire.
Cambodia,,,, Don't fall in love with her.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
Re: My Lucky Escape From a Fire
I get what you're saying but it seems counter-intuitive to stand in the shower while your apartment burns down around you and with every passing second your chances of getting out alive are diminishing drastically.Duncan wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 2:23 pm The first thing you do if you smell smoke is grab a towel get it and your self wet while standing in the shower and make sure you have footwear on before trying to escape from a fire. Wrap the wet towel around your head and face to help breathing and your hair catching on fire.
I think that while there is a lot of good advice regarding what to do in a fire, each fire is different, each apartment is different and each situation is different. As the OP said, the most important thing is to have a plan of action ahead of time based on your own personal situation.
The difference between animals and humans is that animals would never allow the dumb ones to lead the pack.
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Re: My Lucky Escape From a Fire
You can go back after the fire is out and have yourself someKuroneko wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 3:49 pmCaptain Bonez wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 3:37 pm Like any emergency situation don't grab anything, just get your ass outta there ASAP. You really wanna risk the chance of dying because you can't bear to leave your laptop behind
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If you enjoy noise pollution and obnoxious driving practices, Phnom Penh is the place for you!
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Re: My Lucky Escape From a Fire
Fortunately I didn't have to count steps : Up to the landing and then all the way down -- by feel. But no, I didn't feel the door before opening it, which was stupid.
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Let me speak for a moment to the wet towel / wet clothes idea, as respectfully and graciously as possible because I hate when these things turn into umberage contests when the conversation itself doesn't merit that.
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In my particular case, following that advice would have resulted in non-survival, but that's because I caught the very last window for safely transiting the fire. By the time I had reached the street, the fire had "flashed over" and thus any delay would have meant I was trapped above the fire inside a natural chimney, and I would have been killed.
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I imagine that no one piece of advice is universal -- not least because the right thing to do seems so dependent on the geography of the situation -- but I do remember (from seeing it on more than one television program about building fires) that many or most fire deaths could be prevented with more urgency.
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Speaking only from my personal experience in the affirmative, I would say: Don't wet anything in the shower because it's not worth risking the extra time. Instead, have a mentally rehearsed grab-it list, as short as possible, and get out.
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And before the grab-it list strikes anyone as self-contradictory, understand that the benefit of the list is that it psychologically prepares you to calmly expedite your own egress. Apparently a great many of the 9/11 victims powered down their computers before trying to leave; a "go plan" would have prevented such frivolity because it would have *seemed* frivolous before the fact.
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Again, no disrespect or shade is intended or implied; I'm merely saying that, for my own personal experience of escaping from this fire, stopping at the shower would have left me dead.
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Let me speak for a moment to the wet towel / wet clothes idea, as respectfully and graciously as possible because I hate when these things turn into umberage contests when the conversation itself doesn't merit that.
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In my particular case, following that advice would have resulted in non-survival, but that's because I caught the very last window for safely transiting the fire. By the time I had reached the street, the fire had "flashed over" and thus any delay would have meant I was trapped above the fire inside a natural chimney, and I would have been killed.
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I imagine that no one piece of advice is universal -- not least because the right thing to do seems so dependent on the geography of the situation -- but I do remember (from seeing it on more than one television program about building fires) that many or most fire deaths could be prevented with more urgency.
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Speaking only from my personal experience in the affirmative, I would say: Don't wet anything in the shower because it's not worth risking the extra time. Instead, have a mentally rehearsed grab-it list, as short as possible, and get out.
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And before the grab-it list strikes anyone as self-contradictory, understand that the benefit of the list is that it psychologically prepares you to calmly expedite your own egress. Apparently a great many of the 9/11 victims powered down their computers before trying to leave; a "go plan" would have prevented such frivolity because it would have *seemed* frivolous before the fact.
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Again, no disrespect or shade is intended or implied; I'm merely saying that, for my own personal experience of escaping from this fire, stopping at the shower would have left me dead.
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...Oh, and in my case staying low made no difference because I was above the fire.
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I smell smoke all the time. I don’t automatically go and grab a towel and have a shower!Duncan wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 2:37 pmNo... It's to get out safely.phkachhouk wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 2:31 pmOr just get out the house.Duncan wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 2:23 pm The first thing you do if you smell smoke is grab a towel get it and your self wet while standing in the shower and make sure you have footwear on before trying to escape from a fire. Wrap the wet towel around your head and face to help breathing and your hair catching on fire.
No point in leaving your apartment if you walk into a wall of flame or suffocate from smoke as soon as you leave.
Although that’s such a bad idea in this heat.
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Btw, where can I buy smoke detectors? Tried Aeon Mall, Sorya, Thai Huot and IBC so far. No dice.
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