Interesting Links for 17-11-2012

[andrewducker]

• Wordpress will now accept payments in Bitcoins
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• Want a cheap Aston Martin to blow up for your James Bond movie? Print it.
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• Liberalising migration could deliver a huge boost to global output
  (tags: immigration economics )
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner: Have we

Comments

[drdoug]

A likely contributing factor is panic and not knowing what to do.

So as a PSA, if you're on fire: STOP, DROP and ROLL.

STOP still. Flapping and running around fans the flames so they burn quicker and risks setting light to more things.

DROP down and lie on the floor. Fire spreads upwards: if you stand up while on fire, all of you from the initial fire to your head will soon be ablaze, which is Bad. Lie on the floor - that way there's less 'up' for the fire to spread to. Cover your face with your hands to protect it.

ROLL over to smother the flames, or better still, get someone else to roll you in a rug or carpet. This often is enough on its own to put the fire out, and will certainly reduce it. Onlookers can fetch fire extinguishers, fire blankets, water bottles etc while you're rolling.

This really works. We had it drilled in to us when I did lab demonstrator training. And I have tried it for real - one Christmas my brother set the back of his shirt on fire on the cooker. I found out when he came running through in a mad panic. (It's scary, and a natural human response is to run aroud flailing yoyr arms about. Unfortunately this is about the worst thing you can do.) I made him lie down and roll over and he was out in seconds.

[andrewducker]

Useful advice for the guys in the video in the comments at the bottom of this:
http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2816571.html