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Show How to Fight Fire If Bombs Should Be Dropped Take someone with you, if you can. when you search a burning building. Team work is always better. You can search more quickly and thoroughly and you can help each other if necessary and try to search from the top downward. People who are confused con-fused or frightened, especially children, often hide under beds or in closets. Look in every room and in every hiding place you can think of. If a door is hot to the touch, you can expect to find fire when you open it, so be careful. If the door opens toward you, brace your foot against it and turn the knob gently. An explosive back draft may occur when you open the door. If the door opens away from you, turn the knob, push, and duck to one side until you can see whether flames are going to lash out through it. The first thing to do after the all clear has sounded is to check your house to see if fires have started in it. Be sure to check the attic and the roof. If you have more fires than you can handle, call for help. Don't wait for help to arrive. Assume that it can't. Go to work quickly with the tools at hand. If the organized fire fighters can come, they will, but don't stop fighting until the fire is out or until it gets too big for you. Any delay increases the fire's chances of getting out of control. If you are lucky enough to have no fires in your home after an attack, you may be able to help someone else who has a fire to fight. ., You will be told by the warden service if someone needs help in your area. Remember there are three ways to put out a fire. It will go out if you remove its fuel, or rob it of air, or if the burning material is cooled below its combustion point. If the burning material is removable, re-movable, take it out of the house. Then kill the flame with water, a fire extinguisher, sand, or dirt. If the burning material can't be removed, get as close to it as you can safely and douse it with water or whatever firei-fighting material you can use. Keep the area around the fire cooled with water to prevent pre-vent it from spreading. A small fire can bei smothered by a rug or any other heavy material. ma-terial. If the material is wet, so much the better. You might have to deal with incendiary in-cendiary bombs, especially magnesium mag-nesium bombs like those which caused so much damage to cities in World War II. These sputter for a few minutes, then settle down to a steady burning. This type makes a lot of smoke, so keep close to the floor in fighting it. |
