When you have an emergency, you may need to have specialized knowledge to get through it. There are a lot of pieces of information that could serve you well in those situations.
Certain facts can keep you from making a mistake that could be serious for your health and safety.
Your Phone Will Call 911 With No Bars
Even if you don’t have service wherever you are, your cell phone can still call 911. This happens because the signal can be picked up by any tower, including military and other specialized towers.
Lost Kids Should Find a Woman
When children are little, they should be taught to find a woman nearby to get help from. It’s best if the woman has kids with her. This demographic is the safest to be around for your child’s safety.
Only Mix Bleach With Water
Bleach should never be mixed with any other substance. That includes adding bleach to urine which contains ammonia. This can create mustard gas in your home, and this can be extremely harmful to the health of everyone in the household.
Baking Soda Puts Out Grease Fires
If you have a grease fire in the kitchen, throwing water on it will only scatter the flames. It’s important to keep a box of baking soda in the kitchen for this kind of fire. It also works on electrical fires.
Don’t Pull Out a Knife
If you get stabbed with a knife or other object and it’s still in the wound, don’t pull it out. You could start bleeding profusely if you do so. The doctor should be the only one to remove the object.
Unintentional Weight Loss Can Be Serious
If you have extra weight and work to lose it, this is great for your health. However, unintended weight loss can mean you have a serious disease like diabetes or even cancer.
Stay Put in the Woods
If you get lost in the woods, it’s important to stay in one place so that rescue personnel can find you. If you’re a moving target, you’ll be much harder to find. The same is true if you get lost in the snow.
Search Dangerous Places First
If your child ever gets lost inside your home, check the most dangerous places they could be first. If they’re in a safe place, it won’t matter if they stay there for another few minutes, but they need to be found right away if they’re in a dangerous area.
You Need a Carbon Monoxide Detector
You can’t smell carbon monoxide, and you may have no symptoms of it until it’s too late. Always keep a carbon monoxide detector in your home. Having one for each floor is generally recommended.
Rocks Can Explode
If you ever spend time by the water and want to start a campfire, never use rocks that have been near the water. Heating them up can cause them to explode and send shards into you. Only take rocks that are at least 150’ from a body of water.
Choking Is a Silent Emergency
If someone is coughing, they are still getting air and aren’t choking. If someone is silent and is holding their neck, they are likely choking. Start the Heimlich maneuver right away.
A Fishy Smell Can Mean a Fire
There are different kinds of fires, and there are various smells that they give off. If you smell a fishy one, this can mean that there’s an electrical fire in the building that needs to be put out right away.
After Symptoms, Rabies Is Always Deadly
If you’re ever bitten by a mammal that hasn’t had a rabies shot, you need to go to the hospital to get rabies shots. It’s a tough course of shots, but that’s better than the alternative. If you wait until symptoms start, the disease is always fatal.
Elephants Are Fast and Moody
An elephant isn’t the gentle giant they’re so often portrayed as. They run faster than you and can get violent if they think it’s warranted. Never let your guard down around an elephant, and never taunt one.
Water Receding Means a Tsunami
If you’re by the water and it suddenly starts to recede, that means it’s building up in waveform and will come down in the form of a tidal wave. When water starts to recede, and it’s not just the tides, run immediately to higher ground.
