If you had three minutes to evacuate your home because of a fire, what would you try to save? Explain your choices?
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Probably a lot of young people answering here who have seen too many acopalyps movies as many seem mainly concerned about posessions, ‘survival attributes’ or even guns.
I experienced 2 rapidly developing fires at home.
Once when I was 17: My father wasn’t home. Just my mother and 2 of my sisters. As my mother and oldest sister started panicking I told my mother to get my young sister out of bed and my older sister to go to the neighbours to phone the fire brigade and move the car out of the driveway ( mainly to get her out of the way ). Myself I plunged my T-shirt in some water so I had something against the smoke, cut the electricity and tried to put out the fire. 5 minutes past, with some luck fire extinguished, material damage to part of the house, T-shirt ruined.
Second time tv-implosion. Took care my daughter was safe. My dog was still wearing his leash after a walk and got stuck so I spend the next 5 minutes freeing him. Got burned severely but succeeded in freeing him. Lost everything material. What I missed most afterwards: I wanted to get back in to save a hard drive (with a book on it I’ld been writing for 3 years and which I just finished), some drawings and things associated with my little girl and a lifetime of pictures. As a result of the fire from my youth I kept my most valuable personal memories in a metal box but guys from the Fire Brigade stopped me from getting back in through a window. Was furious with them but maybe they saved my life.
Material things aren’t important.. I had a collection of valuable camera’s I missed, first prints of books that were irreplacable, a valuable chess game I got as a present, some things like that but the rest is just material. It’s people that matter, an animal, then things with strong memories attached. Survival materials? What would you need them for? There is no acopalyps coming, no zombies waiting at the door,..
Don’t get me wrong: I’ve always spend my holidays in nature, most often solo climbing or trekking on my own, sometimes not seeing anyone for a couple of weeks, picking fruits, roots etc on the road, cooking on a small fire. I’ve slept on top of the Mont Blanc in my backpack with a good sleeping bag, enjoying the stars above me so one could say I’m a bit trained in survival but the things you need for that you can buy in a shop ( and most is quite basic, except for mosquito milk one doesn’t need much specialized material ). But we’re leaving our house in a hurry here, not going on a survival expedition.
A note: some people here would save their weapons. Don’t care much for people who keep assault weapons at home and when you need to leave your house in a hurry because of a fire, an earth quake or even a flood weapons are what you need the least ( for what? To kill some other earthquake or flood victims? ). But even for surviving in extreme situations like in movies: you don’t survive in the wild on big game, except for a small knife which I don’t consider a weapon you need skills and some basic materials. And in city’s? Think about this: let’s say you are dropped in some slum in South America. Who will have the highest survival chance: the one walking around with a kalashnikoff or someone without any weapon? And yes, it’s a rhetorical question. I’ve walked around in slums. With a weapon you are at risk because considered a threat. Without you just need some people and language skills. Rambo only survives in movies, irl he dies.
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