It may not happen in Singapore but it can happen while in other country. The idea of writing this topic is to let you be prepared in case of emergency. When you have solutions to dangerous situations, you can react faster.
Scenario:
If a big wild bush fire is raging fiercely in a distance about 500m away and the wind direction is blowing towards your direction. You are also trapped in between a dangerous vertical cliff and the fire. You have no way to run. What can you do ?
Be calm. Pull a bundle of the tall grasses or find a long stick. Move towards the fire to set it on fire. Raise it high enough so as not to start the fire along the way back. Estimate the speed and direction of the wind. Move to about 100m from the cliff and set a 50m long fire line parallel to the original fire line. Your position must be between the 2 fire lines.
As the wild bush fire is burning towards you, your set fire line will be burning at roughly the same speed and direction as well. When the original bush fire burns 100m towards your position, your set fire line will have burnt about the same distance towards the cliff. The starting 10m portion of the set fire line would have be burnt and cooled off sufficiently by the time the fire reached the cliff. The set fire line will be burning slightly towards you too. Protect any exposed skin areas with your clothing and run over to the burnt area.
It is not wise to run into the main raging fire with the wind direction blowing towards you. You may be running into a 10m depth of burning grassland and 50m of low burning fire. The heat will be very intense 10m before the fire.
There is no guarantee of a burn free injury. Most important of all, you survive.
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