17 "Fatal" Safety Mistakes You Should Never, Ever Make, Straight From First Responders

1. "Unplug the toaster oregon enactment successful a power to crook it disconnected overnight oregon erstwhile you permission the house."

"Lock ONLY the deadbolt and not the doorknob, too. Firefighters find bodies astatine the doorway arsenic confused/panicked radical lock/unlock/lock trying to get out, not knowing which is locked/unlocked."

—purplesquirrel7813

2. "If you person to spell to the ER for an asthma attack, marque definite that they show your humor sweetener levels if they springiness you much than 1 dose of medicine. You tin extremity up with medically induced hyperglycemia, which tin beryllium fatal if not monitored and treated!"

—lunaamethyst8124

3. "I person generated hours of dashcam footage of exigency calls, and the nationalist conscionable can't get the conception of pulling to the RIGHT for exigency vehicles — 50% mightiness propulsion right, 25% spell left, and the remainder are clueless. Cameras besides grounds license plates, and I person astatine times issued citations for nonaccomplishment to output to an exigency conveyance to these idiots who inactive managed to get a driver's license."

—acidicmatcha126

4. "Never region a helmet erstwhile a cyclist oregon motorcyclist is progressive successful an accident. The ER unit volition instrumentality attraction of that."

—Anonymous, 67, Indiana

5. "If idiosyncratic seems drunk, cheque if they person diabetes. Low oregon precocious humor sweetener can cause disorder and slurred speech. It tin beryllium deadly if not treated."

—visionarylatte873

6. "If you bash consciousness the request to intervene successful a canine fight, don't drawback for the collar. That puts you adjacent to the teeth and puts you successful betwixt the dogs. Grab one's backmost legs. You tin propulsion the animals isolated portion staying retired of wound range."

—rachelg44ec195c4

"I hold that you shouldn't get progressive successful a canine fight, but IF idiosyncratic feels they person to and person nary different enactment but to physically enactment hands connected them, coming from the backmost is simply a safer mode to bash it. I don't deliberation radical should hazard their ain safety, but you cognize immoderate volition if their fur babe is successful danger."

—rachelg44ec195c4

7. "If you are retired for meal and abruptly consciousness sick, don't spell to the restroom by yourself. Take idiosyncratic with you; otherwise, if you faint, person a cardiac arrest, oregon different event, nary 1 volition know. Don't spell to the restroom to die."

—Anonymous, 60, Massachusetts

8. "When you spot oregon are passed by an exigency vehicle, ever look for different one. They thin to question successful groups — an ambulance, rescue firetruck, constabulary car, etc. It's precise communal for accidents to hap erstwhile a 2nd exigency conveyance is coming down the first. Their sirens merge, and drivers don't recognize the danger."

—Anonymous, 67, Utah

9. "EMT Student here! CPR is my apical recommendation. If you person the time, get BLS- (Basic Life Support) certified arsenic well. The Red Cross offers some courses, and knowing however to usage a obstruction instrumentality for giving breaths is indispensable to top-tier CPR. You besides larn however to usage an AED. These 2 things unsocial rise the accidental of endurance by a batch erstwhile utilized correctly."

—[redacted]

10. "When cooking, crook the cookware and cookware handles inward toward the back/side of your stove. A tiny kid tin drawback a grip sticking retired from the stove and propulsion a scalding cookware down connected themselves, oregon anyone tin accidentally hook the grip with the aforesaid result."

—Anonymous, 65, Washington

11. "If you're successful a parking lot, but firefighters and constabulary artifact disconnected the road, look up and don't thrust retired into the bare portion of road. There whitethorn beryllium a medevac landing, and you're sidesplitting idiosyncratic who needs a trauma evacuation."

—u/AmbitionOfPhilipJFry

12. "Don't enactment yourself astatine risk. If determination is an mishap connected a highway, and radical are getting retired of their cars, they tally the hazard of being deed themselves. Don't bash mouth-to-mouth connected someone, particularly if determination is humor oregon bodily fluids connected their face. Seriously, nary mouth-to-mouth. If idiosyncratic is acting violently, conscionable get distant from them. It's not worthy being injured oregon catching something."

—u/DamnPROFESSIONAL

13. "Know however to use a tourniquet. Had a dude dice aft a elemental laceration to his calf. He waited excessively agelong to get to the ER. Became hemodynamically unstable, coded, and died. Actually, the dude made the quality due to the fact that it was a rooster that sliced him erstwhile helium bolted during a raid connected the amerciable cockfighting helium was organizing."

—[redcated]

14. "If you person ANY pets, you request to enactment them up oregon fastener them successful a country distant from us. I don't attraction however saccharine your canine is; it is inactive a threat. Many dogs volition get protective and assertive erstwhile their owners are hurt. I've heard much than 1 communicative of a workfellow getting bitten by the world's friendliest dog."

—[redacted]

15. "Do not effort to travel the ambulance to hospital. You WILL CAUSE a catastrophic accident."

—Anonymous

16. "If radical are astir during an emergency, delegate jobs. Don't conscionable outcry for help, constituent and archer idiosyncratic to telephone 911/get the AED/etc."

—[redacted]

17. "If you get shot, battalion gauze into the wound, past wrapper it to halt the bleeding. We spot a batch of radical who conscionable wrapper up the wound, and they extremity up losing a ton of blood."

—u/Aspaceotter

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

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