Just learned about the Kaprun disaster in which 155 people lost their lives when an underground train caught fire.
There were only 12 survivors all of whom followed the advice of a retired firefighter who advised them to run downhill through the flames in the rear of the train.
The steep incline of the tunnel acted as a blast furnace that sucked in fresh air from the low end and funneled toxic smoke to the high end.
Not sure how applicable this will be to anyone here, but I thought it a great example of how a little more widespread knowledge of how fire works could have saved a lot of lives.
Tl;dr fire bad but smoke worse. Get to fresh air.
We just went through CoViD, like a week ago (a week, right? It also feels like a million years, so I’m not sure). We found that, largely, MANY people didn’t follow the sane, simple advice to lessen the load on trauma centers – “Do like a billion people in china do every day, and wear a thing on your face”. And the defiance-as-religion types didn’t die fast enough.
NO ONE’s gonna listen to an authority on this either. I’d want them all to run into the zombie horde and stare them down or something like hillbilly tough guys, but I need someone to farm the bran in my good, good, whole-wheat shreddies.
a very shitty Team sport