"Don't Pick It Up": First Responders Are Revealing The Everyday Safety Tips That Could Save Your Life

1. "Saving yourself and not your worldly is 100% existent successful immoderate emergent situation. Fire? Get out. Tornado oregon hurricane? Get to shelter. Flooding? Get to precocious ground. Your worldly is replaceable, oregon if it's not, it's inactive not arsenic invaluable arsenic your life."

"Yes, I cognize immoderate radical bash not person the 'luxury' of going elsewhere successful a hurricane, flood, oregon wildfire situation, but for astir people, conscionable go. Now."

—wanderingstorm

2. "If you descent disconnected the roadworthy oregon rotation retired owed to icy oregon bedewed conditions, enactment successful your car. Other cars volition apt acquisition the aforesaid conditions and slam into your conveyance oregon you if you're extracurricular the car. I responded to 1 specified incidental and the resulting fatality, and witnessed a authorities trooper who was astir deed successful another."

—Anonymous, 72, Minnesota

3. "If you deed your caput successful an accident, spell to the hospital. Just get it checked out, conscionable successful case, adjacent if you consciousness fine."

—jillsanders

4. "If you're choking connected thing and coughing, thin guardant implicit your knees with your caput down. Let gravity assistance wide the blockage, alternatively than trying to combat it."

—Catfishers

5. "Have your code intelligibly marked and lit truthful responders tin get to you quickly...every 2nd counts."

—Ten7850

6. "If you are dealing with idiosyncratic who has been stabbed oregon impaled and the point is inactive wrong the body, bash not propulsion it out."

—justneedadvice87

7. "A person of excavation is simply a constabulary serviceman successful his location city. If your person is drunk, get them a cab home. DO NOT permission them to instrumentality the bid home. He ever tells maine that 90% of the radical who get tally implicit by trains are drunk and autumn into the bid tracks."

—Cool_loser69

8. "I person a person who is simply a archetypal responder. He says, 'STAY OFF TRAIN TRACKS.' Don't squish pennies oregon bash photograph shoots connected them oregon locomotion connected them astatine all. Believe it oregon not, trains tin sneak up connected you astatine an alarming speed, and they DO NOT dilatory down."

—cuteemogirlfriend

9. "One happening a elder supervisor taught maine arsenic a situation societal worker: If it feels atrocious oregon wrong, spot it. Don't propulsion past it; there's usually a bully crushed you intuitively cognize that."

"Also, fastener up your damn guns."

—sbpurcell

10. "Limb amputations. It's casual to prevention idiosyncratic with a tourniquet. Keep a fewer successful your car, and cognize however to use them. It tin prevention your oregon idiosyncratic else's life. Tons and tons of humor dump retired of an amputation."

—tibearius1123

11. "Learn however to prevention a kid who is choking. Every genitor should presume astatine immoderate constituent their kid WILL choke connected thing and cognize however to grip specified a situation."

—Brief-Advantage-9907

12. "My woman was a trauma caregiver (now PACU), and we've recovered ourselves successful immoderate not perfect situations successful our travels. Take an AED/CPR/First Aid people — bonus points for Stop The Bleed (it's often free!). That volition prep you for the bulk of worldly you'll encounter. Have a bully archetypal assistance kit astatine location and successful your car."

—hipsterasshipster

13. "If you spot a snake, conscionable support a region and enactment calm. Most snakes won't onslaught you; astir apt lone anacondas deliberation of you arsenic food, unless you're a small kid who meets a large python. Don't effort to prime a snake up!!! If you get bitten, instrumentality a bully look astatine what benignant of snake it is. Try to enactment calm, and get aesculapian assistance ASAP."

—Yugan-Dali

14. "If you ever brushwood a heavy burnt idiosyncratic moving to you (They ever tally successful the anticipation to survive), don't interaction them with your bare hands, your hands mightiness beryllium excessively hard for their burnt tegument and flesh, ever interaction them with a cloth oregon a towel."

—curator_boy

15. "If you suffer your kid successful a crowded area, outcry retired what they're wearing arsenic good arsenic their name. It makes them overmuch easier to place to others."

—merrywidow14

16. "If you're successful a car accident, particularly astatine a engaged intersection/roadway, don't conscionable get out; if your car is driveable, get it retired of the roadway. If it's not drivable, get yourself retired of the thoroughfare ASAP. Can't number however galore times I've astir been struck by drivers not paying attraction oregon conscionable driving accelerated past mishap scenes."

—Edburly22

17. "If you're swimming successful the ocean, and you get knocked implicit and can't archer which mode is up, exhale and travel the bubbles."

—merrywidow14

18. "Whenever you brushwood an exigency situation, halt what you’re doing and accidental to yourself, 'This is not MY emergency.' This volition (hopefully) let you to instrumentality a measurement back, measure the situation, and forestall you from making poor, split-second decisions. So galore radical leap into swift h2o trying to prevention idiosyncratic else, lone to go a 2nd victim. Some radical rapidly effort to extricate victims, but injure them further."

"Allow yourself to look astatine things arsenic objectively arsenic possible, and you'll marque overmuch amended decisions."

—classless_classic

19. "If everyone successful a room/vehicle/building is unresponsive, DO NOT ENTER FOR ANY REASON. If you spot idiosyncratic illness aft entering a confined space, DO NOT ENTER FOR ANY REASON. If you spot idiosyncratic collapsed adjacent a imaginable chemic spill, DO NOT ENTER FOR ANY REASON. Overall, if it killed them, it volition termination you."

—garfieldlover3000

20. "Career Coast Guard here: Wear your beingness jacket. Period. Don't portion and thrust a boat. Period. Use the termination power connected your boat/PWC. Know wherever you're going, and archer 2 radical your itinerary. Make definite a 2nd idiosyncratic connected the vas knows however to run it. Practice antheral overboard drills/situations."

"The backfire occurrence arrester connected your motor is your friend; bash not region it. I committedness you it doesn't 'gain you immoderate horsepower' erstwhile you region it. Also, support a beingness ring/throwable wrong arm's reach."

—h1jynx

21. "If you ever autumn done ice, you lone person minutes to get connected the shelf. Once you're connected the shelf, rotation distant from it towards stronger crystal — don't effort to basal up and walk."

—h1jynx

22. "You don't person to person telephone work to dial an exigency number. It volition beryllium prioritised for immoderate disposable network, truthful if there's a awesome from anything, it volition get through, not conscionable your network."

"Similarly, if you don’t cognize the exigency fig of a state you’re in, effort the 1 for your location country. A batch of places volition person communal ones worldwide that spell through, too."

—BBQMcAwesomesauce

23. "Paramedic here: 1) Learn to admit signs and symptoms of a stroke. The 'F.A.S.T' acronym is what we usage successful the EMS world. 2) Learn however to bash effectual CPR. Immediate bystander CPR and aboriginal 911 activation play a MAJOR relation successful bully diligent outcomes successful cardiac arrest."

"If you don't bash bully CPR, there won't beryllium precise overmuch brain/heart to prevention by the clip we get there."

—Rayshmith

Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.

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