Staying Calm Is Key To Tackling Wildfires Better

Before we discuss how to safeguard oneself during sudden wildfires.

You ought to stay calm and focused in an emergency, it's important to stay calm and focused.

When a person is under stress, he moves into survival mode better known as the fight-or-flight syndrome. Under these conditions, the body prepares itself by overproducing the stress hormone cortisol.

Then, cortisol goes to the brain and causes a slow-down in the process of the pre-frontal cortex, where you think critically and effect your decisions.

In emergency situations we humans are biologically created to be reactive, rather than thoughtful or critical in decision-making.

As a result, panic makes you behave in an emotional manner rather than a thoughtful manner, as you react emotionally to the dangers.

Wildfires create smoky conditions it’s important for everyone to reduce their exposure to smoke.

Wildfire smoke irritates your eyes, nose, throat, and lungs. It can make it hard to breathe and make you cough or wheeze.  

Children, pregnant women, and people with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or heart disease, need to be especially careful about breathing wildfire smoke.

Because of extreme heat and dry forest conditions worsened by climate change. Wildfires can explode quickly, and move so fast that people can get caught.

People should try, at all costs, to avoid being trapped by a wildfire, because the odds of surviving are low.

 Avoid getting trapped:

Try to put as much distance between yourself and the fire as possible.

Remain upwind, or perpendicular to the direction the fire is moving.

Climb to a ridge or highpoint to track the fire's movement, or use your cell phone to get this information.

However, if the fire is moving too fast towards you and blocking all escape routes,, here are tips you need to keep in mind:

1.Find a safe spot
2.Move away from the fire path.
3.Run through the flames into the area that has been burned out.

Relaxation techniques which can help both you and your family in case of an emergency include:

1.A quick progressive relaxation which only takes a minute, of squeezing and releasing all the muscles in the body isometrically and simultaneously, three times, will reduce stress in the body and immediately relax you.

2.Breathing. simply taking a minute to breathe in to the count of three, hold to the count of three, and breathe out to the count of three, repeated three times, while saying and focusing each time on the word "relax" will automatically calm the mind.

3.Create a visualization. Close your eyes for one minute and focus your mind on some calming situation for example, a place that you go to relax... Your favourite temple... your parents...and hold that photographs three times to the count of three. This will reduce your blood pressure, lower your heart rate and reduce stress.

Being prepared, staying focused, and having a plan that has been internalized, automatically will lower stress and keep you calm in emergency situations.

The purpose of this blog is to create awareness about wildfires while tracking in the countryside. On Makara Sankranti Day 2023 my cousin from my mother's side while tracking lost his life due to sudden wildfire.

Life can change in the blink of an eye, but brotherhood is eternal.

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