First Responders Revealed The Common But "Fatal" Mistakes People Make Every Day, And This Could Literally Save Your Life

1. "Keep the first-aid kit, solid hammer, and spot loop cutter successful the mitt compartment. So galore radical enactment them successful the trunk, and you can't scope them successful the lawsuit of an emergency."

—whale_tail

2. "In exigency situations, similar a idiosyncratic collapsing, name radical to bash things, portion you statesman thorax compressions. 'You get the AED.' 'You telephone 911.' 'You wide the area.' Then, radical person a job, cognize what to do, and it usually helps support aggregate telephone calls to 911 down, and eases immoderate of the panic."

—lazyorc81

3. "If you aftermath up, and there's a bat successful your room, get your butt to the ER for rabies vaccines. Bat teeth are truthful tiny that it's highly hard to archer if they spot you, and less than 10 radical person EVER survived rabies without the vaccine. In this situation, it is ABSOLUTELY amended to beryllium harmless than sorry."

"The bid is costly and not ace fun, but it’s WAY amended than an highly achy death."

—katkat007

4. "I'm a firefighter with 16 years connected the job. If your c monoxide detectors are going off, get everyone retired of the location and enactment out. Don't effort to fig it retired yourself. If the upwind is bad, spell to a neighbor's location oregon your vehicle."

—None

5. "Please deterioration a helmet. On a bike? Wear your helmet. On a scooter? Wear a helmet! Motorcycle? You guessed it, helmet. Got a passenger? Insist they deterioration 1 too. During my clip arsenic an EMT, I responded to excessively galore incidents with victims who mightiness person been capable to locomotion distant from the country with lone insignificant injuries if they had worn capable caput extortion (and worn it correctly).'

"And arsenic agelong arsenic I've got you present speechmaking this, delight besides deterioration a seatbelt each azygous clip you're successful a moving conveyance ."

—JosephCornellBox

6. "Running to propulsion idiosyncratic retired of a burning conveyance is simply a large mode to hazard losing your beingness oregon origin superior wounded to yourself. It's truthful unbelievably important to fto the due unit woody with each concern and NOT hazard causing much casualties."

—Two-Shots-Of-Vodka

7. "If you don't cognize what to do...please don't effort to 'help'. You're going to origin much disorder and/or delay. Getting retired of the mode is going to assistance a batch more."

—None

8. "Don't enactment your legs up connected the dashboard — unless you privation bilateral femur fractures."

—Mk860

"My uncle was a firefighter who responded to galore exigency calls connected the road, and helium drilled the 'never enactment your feet connected the dashboard' happening into my and each my cousins' heads from a young age. He'd seen mode excessively galore comparatively insignificant crashes that everyone should person been capable to locomotion distant from, that alternatively ended with catastrophic oregon adjacent fatal injuries to the idiosyncratic successful the rider seat."

—skiinggnat

9. "Be much cautious astir tract mowers. I person transported radical who defeated the 'dead man's switch' connected their riding mower and past rolled the mower into a ditch. Don't bash that. I person transported children who were trying to get Mom's attraction portion she was mowing, lone to gaffe connected the escaped writer and extremity up nether the mower."

"I person transported children who person penetrating look and cervix wounds from Dad hitting a stone portion mowing. Don't person children connected oregon astir operating tract mowers."

—_opposablethumbs

10. "Area rugs, carpet runners, etc., tin beryllium travel hazards connected the level of your older parents' and grandparents' homes. A breached hep is often the opening of the extremity for folks implicit 70."

—JshWright

11. "Call 911 arsenic soon arsenic you deliberation there's an emergency. It's amended to person america rolling retired and it crook retired to beryllium nothing...than person you waffling connected whether oregon not to call. We don't get mad/care/complain erstwhile radical telephone 911 successful bully faith...even if it turns retired you were mistaken. It's what we're present for."

"Conversely, ne'er enactment disconnected calling 911 due to the fact that you deliberation the idiosyncratic you're calling for volition get huffy astatine you. Call. Let them get huffy astatine us."

—None

12. "Be cautious with agelong hair, particularly successful children. I worked successful an ER and was amazed by however galore injuries were from hairsbreadth caught successful a motor, belt, pool, etc. ALWAYS person hairsbreadth up and wrapped astatine carnivals/fairs, biking, oregon immoderate outdoor event. I've seen immoderate unspeakable injuries."

—robinsrecovery

13. "If you get distracted portion driving and your tires spell implicit the broadside of the road, don't freak retired and whip the instrumentality to get backmost on. You'll overcorrect and spell across, apt into a histrion connected the different side, oregon different operator head-on. Had a miss precocious bash this, and portion she died instantly, her parents were conscionable successful beforehand of her, and her dada got second- and third-degree burns trying to get her assemblage retired of the wreckage."

"To the point, gradually get backmost connected the road, and if impossible, enactment hazards on, travel to a stop, and then, rejoin the roadworthy erstwhile safe."

—Oscote_

14. "I cognize these points are made a lot, but don't portion and drive. Don't get precocious and drive. Don't substance and drive. It's repeated implicit and over, yet we perpetually spot accidents and fatalities due to the fact that of this. It's truthful casual to avoid. If you are drinking oregon utilizing drugs, person a sober driver/taxi/Uber thrust you, oregon enactment astatine your home."

"If you request to text, similar it is simply a existent emergency, find a harmless spot to propulsion implicit and parkland to nonstop the message; otherwise, conscionable wait."

—Data-Minor

15. "I've spent 8 years successful agrarian rescue. Keep an oculus connected your kids erstwhile you’re retired successful nature. Look distant for a 2nd oregon two, and the adjacent clip you spot them whitethorn beryllium successful a coffin."

—KP_Wrath

16. "If idiosyncratic is having a seizure, bash NOT enactment thing successful their mouth. Ever. There is nary specified happening arsenic 'swallowing your tongue.' Also, bash not clasp them down to halt their limbs from moving. Move unsafe objects distant from them, and rotation them connected their broadside erstwhile the seizure ends."

—None

17. "Fire extinguishers are large to have. They enactment large for what they are intended to do. But if your location is connected fire, and the occurrence extinguisher doesn't enactment it retired immediately, get retired of determination and telephone 911 from a harmless place. We person more, bigger, and amended occurrence extinguishers...and hoses...with engines that person large h2o tanks."

—None

18. "If you request to telephone an ambulance, spell to the ER, oregon spell to urgent care, bring a database of your (or the patient's) medications. I don't attraction if 'they should person them successful the computer.'"

"And if you instrumentality medications for something, it's thing you should study erstwhile asked if you person immoderate aesculapian problems (aka aesculapian history). I can't archer you however galore times I've asked idiosyncratic that question, and they've said they person nary aesculapian problems, lone to find retired they instrumentality 10 medications each day. If you instrumentality medications for precocious humor unit (hypertension), that is simply a information that you have, careless of however good your humor unit is presently controlled. Conversely, conscionable due to the fact that you don't instrumentality medications for a information doesn't mean you shouldn't inactive study that condition. Yes, it tin marque a difference. Sometimes, a precise life-altering difference."

—None

19. "Moving a idiosyncratic who has been successful a superior car mishap could origin further injury. Let the professionals bash it."

—Visible-Ant1949

20. "Old cars are decease traps. Burnouts are amusive and all, but if it catches unexpectedly, you whitethorn beryllium the crumple zone."

—KP_Wrath

21. "If someone's not acting right, the clip to telephone 911 is close now. I can't archer you however galore times idiosyncratic has had a full-blown changeable the nighttime before, and their household wanted to 'wait and spot what would happen.' The reply to that question is, 'Well, past nighttime we had a bully accidental of stopping oregon adjacent reversing this, but present your ma volition beryllium similar this forever. That's what happened.' When idiosyncratic is having a stroke, clip is perfectly critical."

"Stroke attraction has made astonishing advancement implicit the years, but each of the astonishing things that tin beryllium done person a beauteous abbreviated clip framework for erstwhile they tin beryllium done. I stake you've ne'er apologized for bothering a McDonald's worker erstwhile you've wanted a hamburger. You're not 'bothering' us, either. Please call, and fto america assistance you. The astir communal fatal mistake radical marque is not calling 911 soon enough."

—medic8388

Fellow archetypal responders, what different communal mistakes tin radical debar successful exigency situations? Tell america successful the comments, oregon usage this anonymous signifier below.

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