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Glad you got out and are safe. Good reminder for everyone to think about what options they have in their home and to make plans in case it happens.

Really the only smart thing I did in the whole crisis, was to have explicitly thought about the question ahead of time. "If there's ever an emergency, I'm grabbing this, and this, and *this*."
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I am both a dumb guy by nature and even worse when having to react quickly on my feet, and the advance thinking didn't just expedite things; it also kept me from panicking. Highly, *highly* recommended.

Jesus mate, good thing you got out.

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 saw 2 or 3 building is on fire within a week..

Should put important stuffs at easy place to grab so whenever it happens can just grab it and run and ofcourse the important one is still our own safety

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.

Or just get out the house.

phkachhouk wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 2:31 pm

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.

Or just get out the house.

No... It's to get out safely.

No point in leaving your apartment if you walk into a wall of flame or suffocate from smoke as soon as you leave.

I've never been through a fire, most likely would panic and not think of many things.

Were you able to feel the door with the back of your hand for heat before you opened it? Stay low? I know they tell us these things many many times, but in the moment we panic and forget. I suspect your heart was racing like crazy? How did you feel after you exited? Other people in building made it out OK?

My last job had me staying in a lot of hotels. I was taught to always go over exits and COUNT number of steps to stairs. Never had to use thank goodness.

Jesus how scary. I'm at the top of a 5-storey staircase and there is no vent for the smoke to escape at the top, so I would have no idea if a fire broke out as I would not smell it inside my apartment. So I placed a smoke detector right outside my door at the top of the stairs, so as soon as any smoke gets detected out there I should hopefully be alerted. Because if that stairway was full of smoke as you describe I doubt I'd make it down five flights without passing out.

What to grab on the way out? Passport, wallet, laptop and phone?