Get rid of forest fires! (positive pressure SCBA)
As ordinary people, if the forest fire at the beginning of the fire, the fire is small, you can water, soil, fire extinguisher spray flame, or with broom, big branches and other fighting, the first time to eliminate the fire in the bud, to avoid a small fire spread into a disaster. Special groups attention: the disabled, pregnant women, minors are not recommended to participate in forest fire fighting and rescue work, should immediately avoid risk to ensure personal safety.
If the forest fire spread quickly, it is difficult to control, should immediately avoid risk, do not blindly fight the fire. Quickly dial the forest fire alarm number 12119. When the alarm should pay attention to report the fire occurred in the county, township, village and the specific name of the mountain. Tell the size of the fire or the degree of damage. (3) report alarm person’s name, identity, contact information.
Forest, pastoral areas have enough fuel, forest grassland fires often spread quickly, menacing. Cover your mouth and nose, pay attention to the wind direction, and choose a reasonable way to avoid risks according to the site situation.
Cover your mouth and nose: in case of forest fire, in addition to heat stroke and burn injury caused by high temperature, smoke and carbon monoxide will also make people suffocate and be poisoned. Especially, carbon monoxide has potential, which will reduce people’s mental acuity and not be easily detected after poisoning. And heat waves can burn respiratory tract, cause oedema asphyxiation, rapid life-threatening. Therefore, if you find yourself in a forest fire area, cover your mouth and nose with a damp towel or clothing as much as possible. If there is water nearby, it is better to soak your clothes, so as to add a layer of protection.
Commonly used methods to avoid risk to the safety of the zone: transfer risk is the first choice. Move quickly away from fire hazards to open areas with no or little vegetation, and near rivers, lakes, and marshes. If you are in a wooden house or a building with flammable and explosive materials such as gas, or if you are trapped by a fire in a car, you should leave the building and car quickly and go to an open area to avoid danger to prevent more damage caused by violent burning and explosion.
Avoid steep, dangerous terrain: steep slopes change the direction and speed of forest fires. With the increase of mountain slope, the propagation of thermal radiation will be improved firstly. Second, the flame produces high temperatures that preheat the upper layers of the fuel. Thus, other things being equal, fire burns faster up a slope than it does on flat ground. In case of forest fire, do not escape up the slope.
Said so much is to let everyone pay attention to the fire escape, because the fire is a very dangerous thing, people died in the fire is also common. Today will come to a commonly used in the fire safety equipment is the positive pressure air breathing apparatus, the male positive pressure air breathing apparatus is widely used in fire fighting, chemical, shipbuilding, petroleum, metallurgy, electric power, warehouse, laboratory, mining and other fire key departments, for the firefighters or rescue and ambulance crews in the smoke, gas, steam and anoxic environments such as safe and effective fire-fighting and rescue and disaster relief and rescue work, is the ideal of firefighters or rescue and ambulance personnel individual respiratory protective device.
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