What to do if you were under the rubble of the destroyed building

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 When man-made accidents, explosions of residential and office buildings, natural disasters, leading to the destruction of different buildings, people may be buried in the rubble. Be in the rubble - it does not mean that the person buried there forever.Humble yourself, be patient, wait, help will come. For example, in Neftegorsk after the catastrophic earthquake of debris were recovered about a thousand people. Earthquakes in recent years show that people under the debris can remain alive for up to two to three weeks, if they are not injured. For example, in Mexico, after the earthquake in September 1985, which claimed 45 lives of thousands, of people are at the end of 13 days. In Leninakan on the fifth day after the accident excavated and extracted the survivors 5398 people. At the 11th day of the Czechoslovak rescuers dug out of the ruins 58-year tortured, exhausted, but a living woman. Another woman 45 years old, rescued from the rubble of 9-storey house on the 10th day, rose, looked around and walked by herself.Once in the rubble, look carefully to see for the voids, it does not come from somewhere in the air, or even pull the wind. Maybe you can somehow, without any help, get out. If you found a narrow hole between the plates in bulk, try gently creep, but be extremely careful not to move the hanging piles of bricks, pieces of armature and  broken plates.

How to attract the attention of rescuers? You can send it a voice, banging on a fragment of brick stove pipe fittings. Listen, once the machinery stops working, there was silence. This means that the lifeguards declared a "moment of silence". It was at this time the rescuers themselves listening to the cries, moans, knocks coming from the depths. It is the "moment of silence", rescuers with equipment and specially trained dogs are enhanced intelligence. Living people can be detected by groaning, crying and just a breath of a living person will immediately feel a dog.If they find the alive people, rescuers break through the narrow well, through it lowered medicines, water, food, and then very carefully dismantled blockage.Often, the life and death of people separates with concrete slab. Remove the cross in one fell swoop by lifting up is dangerous - can move and flatten man lying beneath the wreckage. In this case, the rescuers lift concrete slab a few inches, and the crack doctor sends man glucose solution to maintain power, and then begins drilling of concrete on the edges to move the slab as possible care.Happens that the situation in the rubble, you can even smoke. A smoke in such a situation as a, heavy smokers want! From this scheme must categorically refuse: smoke destroy the remnants of oxygen in the shelter and follow certain death by suffocation.When disassembling the dam should be careful in the first place, trying to free the head and chest of the victim.For rescue hurry. The sad statistics claims that thousands of people caught in the rubble after the earthquake, every hour, 50 people die, that is, almost every minute of delay claims the life of one of the thousands buried alive.

translated from Russian from site http://scea.ru/esli-vy-okazalis-pod-zavalom.html