What to do with wildfires? Safety tips to help you with forest fire.

Up to 90% of the forest fires are due to the careless handling of wildfires. The resources of the fires are generally located in the crowded places: along the roads, railways and around settlements. The main peak of the forest fires fall on the weekends and holidays, during the summer holidays and vacations. It is also worth remembering that it`s real the spontaneous combustion of the peat bogs. We found for you some helpful safety tips. 

The causes of the forest fire

• careless handling of a man with fire;

• failure to comply with safety measures at a campfire in the forest;

• children’s pranks with matches in the forest area;

• incineration of the trash, dry grass in the vicinity of the forest areas;

• accidental sparks from the exhaust pipe of the car or motorcycle;

• lightning hit a tree;

• fire wiping of the material impregnated with oil, petrol or other spontaneously combustible composition;

• random focusing sunlight by the glass bottle.

Fires may be a result of fires the buildings in settlements from power lines, oil depots and other flammable and combustible substances that may lead to the spread of fire to the large areas, and the possible mass destruction of the people and animals.

Security measures and rules of conduct in the woods

The human factor is one of the common causes of the wildfires. To avoid the inadvertent ignition of the forest and wildfire in the forest, you should observe the safety measures.

1. Do not drop to the ground the burning matches or cigarette butts unquenched.

2. Do not make fires in the fire-risk period.

3. Do not burn rubbish in the forest.

4. Do not use while hunting the wads of the smoldering materials.

5. Do not leave trash in the forest, especially the cleaning material impregnated with oil, gasoline or other combustible material.

6. Do not leave the glass bottles or glass splinters in the forest.

Follow these rules:

ü Kindle fire only in the designated areas.

ü If there are no places like these, then prepare breeding ground by yourself for its, purging it of grass, leaves and branches to the ground.

ü Before leaving the parking fire must be completely extinguished. To leave the place of a halt, just making sure that none of the log or branch is no longer smoldering.

ü In a case of danger of fire, extinguish the source of fire with water or throwing it with land, you can put down the fire with branches of deciduous trees.

If the fire is close to you:

– If you smell a smoke and approaching the fire – determine the direction of its propagation.

– Choose the safest route out of the woods in a safe place.

– Move at a right angle to the direction of the forest fire.

– Immerse yourself into the nearest water source or drench yourself by a supply of water.

– Cover your head and upper of the body by wet clothes.

– When it`s the excessive smoke, breathe through a wet dressing.

– Go crouching to the ground.

– Look for an opportunity to overcome the edge of the fire on the roads, forest streams, lakes.

In the fire season you can not in the forest:

Ø campfires and enjoy the open fire, burn the grass under the trees, the meadows, glades, meadows;

Ø and set fire to the straw in the fields, located close to the forest;

Ø leave the bottles  at the floodlit forest glades, cans and broken glass;

Ø use the cars with a faulty fuel system;

Ø leave the oiled or soaked with fuel material;

Ø use when hunting the wads of flammable or smoldering materials.