People Who Die in Fires While Awake

Fukuyama · 12-12-2010 8:54pm #1

I was thinking when I saw the Northern Irish 'Escape Plan' advert for fire safety... how do people die when they wake up and their house is on fire?

If you inhale smoke and don't wake up fine...

But imagine the scenario. You wake up. You smell something awful... Someone's having a guinness crap... no...wait. FIRE!!

You run to your bed room door, it's hot. Crap. So you sit there and die??

WINDOW!!!!

I think I'd gladly jump out of a second or even third story window as opposed to burning to death. :rolleyes:

- Dean.

Micky Dolenz · 12-12-2010 8:55pm

Dean0088 wrote: »

I was thinking when I saw the Northern Irish 'Escape Plan' advert for fire safety... how do people die when they wake up and their house is on fire?

If you inhale smoke and don't wake up fine...

But imagine the scenario. You wake up. Someone's having a guinness crap... no...wait. FIRE!!

You run to your bed room door, it's hot. Crap. So you sit there and die??

WINDOW!!!!

I think I'd gladly jump out of a second or even third story window as opposed to burning to death. :rolleyes:

- Dean.

It would be rare to burn to death, smoke inhalation also kills you if you are awake.

bonerm · 12-12-2010 8:56pm

Dean0088 wrote: »

I think I'd gladly jump out of a second or even third story window as opposed to burning to death. :rolleyes:

- Dean.

That was the choice a lot of the 9/11 jumpers made. Tho of course there was officially no suicides that day.

punchdrunk · 12-12-2010 8:57pm

panic,disorientation,fear

hard to imagine until your there...

orourkeda · 12-12-2010 8:58pm

Dean0088 wrote: »

I was thinking when I saw the Northern Irish 'Escape Plan' advert for fire safety... how do people die when they wake up and their house is on fire?

If you inhale smoke and don't wake up fine...
But imagine the scenario. You wake up. You smell something awful... Someone's having a guinness crap... no...wait. FIRE!!

You run to your bed room door, it's hot. Crap. So you sit there and die??

WINDOW!!!!

I think I'd gladly jump out of a second or even third story window as opposed to burning to death. :rolleyes:

- Dean.

Do you think being awake makes the smoke go away

TheZohanS · 12-12-2010 9:00pm

Dean0088 wrote: »

You run to your bed room door, it's hot. Crap. So you sit there and die??

WINDOW!!!!

And as soon as you open that WINDOW!!!! you're allowing in oxygen, enjoy your backdraft.

Rockn · 12-12-2010 9:01pm

If they're anything like me in the mornings:

Oh my god! Fire!

Well... it's all the way over the other side of the room. I could probably get 5 more minutes sleep. ZZZzzzzzzz.

Fukuyama · 12-12-2010 9:02pm

orourkeda wrote: »

Do you think being awake makes the smoke go away

No, but leaping from a window into beautiful fresh air does...

12-12-2010 9:02pm

bonerm wrote: »

That was the choice a lot of the 9/11 jumpers made. Tho of course there was officially no suicides that day.

To be fair, although they were obviously jumping on purpose they were doomed whatever they did and were simply choosing the less painful way to die, which is completley different to a depressed person deciding their life is not worth living and commiting suicide.

Fukuyama · 12-12-2010 9:03pm

TheZohan wrote: »

And as soon as you open that WINDOW!!!! you're allowing in oxygen, enjoy your backdraft.

I think it's safe to assume that if your room is already an inferno then you're fúcked anyways...

orourkeda · 12-12-2010 9:04pm

Dean0088 wrote: »

No, but leaping from a window into beautiful fresh air does...

Running through smoke and flames to get there. Then jumping out a window. Sounds like quite the plan.

Fukuyama · 12-12-2010 9:05pm

bonerm wrote: »

That was the choice a lot of the 9/11 jumpers made. Tho of course there was officially no suicides that day.

I believe the suicide bombers committed... uh... suicide. :P

Ohhh! BURN!!

I'm aware that last remark makes me appear to be a know it all twat... I just wanted to be the first person to use that pun in this thread. Sorry.

Fukuyama · 12-12-2010 9:08pm

orourkeda wrote: »

Running through smoke and flames to get there. Then jumping out a window. Sounds like quite the plan.

How big is your bedroom? The majority of people who don't live in Uber Mansions such as yourself would be able to step to their window, open it, and leap onto a car in the drive or whatever...

Running through flames?? Nooo... if fire has engulfed your room you're dead anyways...

TBH I think a lot of you guys would be toast in a fire :eek:

My name is URL · 12-12-2010 9:08pm

Bungalows ftw

orourkeda · 12-12-2010 9:11pm

Dean0088 wrote: »

How big is your bedroom? The majority of people who don't live in Uber Mansions such as yourself would be able to step to their window, open it, and leap onto a car in the drive or whatever...

Running through flames?? Nooo... if fire has engulfed your room you're dead anyways...

TBH I think a lot of you guys would be toast in a fire :eek:

Well observed.

If this hasnt happened why would you need to jump from a window.

Absurdum · 12-12-2010 9:12pm

Igloos ftw

orourkeda · 12-12-2010 9:13pm

My name is URL wrote: »

Bungalows ftw

You dont want to get caught in a fire in one of those either

Fukuyama · 12-12-2010 9:14pm

orourkeda wrote: »

Well observed.

If this hasnt happened why would you need to jump from a window.

Because your house is on fire...

What I'm saying is, a lot of the time people wake up with other sections of their house on fire and normal exits unreachable.

If fire has reached your room then you might as well jump back into bed and die cosey...

But if it hasn't... window.

Surely a boardsie has had a house fire before??

Fukuyama · 12-12-2010 9:15pm

orourkeda wrote: »

You dont want to get caught in a fire in one of those either

I really think you're missing the who point of the window idea...

orourkeda · 12-12-2010 9:19pm

Dean0088 wrote: »

I really think you're missing the who point of the window idea...

And why would you jump through the window of a bungalow exactly considering the doors are on the same level and are quicker and easier to escape through.

starbelgrade · 12-12-2010 9:22pm

orourkeda wrote: »

And why would you jump through the window of a bungalow exactly considering the doors are on the same level and are quicker and easier to escape through.

Coz it looks cool.

orourkeda · 12-12-2010 9:25pm

Dean0088 wrote: »

Because your house is on fire...

What I'm saying is, a lot of the time people wake up with other sections of their house on fire and normal exits unreachable.

If fire has reached your room then you might as well jump back into bed and die cosey...

But if it hasn't... window.

Surely a boardsie has had a house fire before??

Most windows dont allow for adults to exit them very easily as I'm sure you're aware. Certainly not someone of my height and build. In all probability if your escape route has been blocked by flames you will ned to smash the window. Therefore you will need to find something to smash the window, smash it and then jump out in a matter of seconds.

There is a fair probability that the resulting jump will result in injuries of some description.

orourkeda · 12-12-2010 9:25pm

starbelgrade wrote: »

Coz it looks cool.

So does getting burned to death

Ruu_Old · 12-12-2010 9:27pm

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orourkeda · 12-12-2010 9:30pm

Ruu wrote: »

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xoxyx · 12-12-2010 9:31pm

I would say that a large amount of people who die in house fires, who aren't struck down by inhalation poisoning, die trying to save a loved one.

You wake up with the fire alarm going off and an easy exit window next to you, but your child is in the next room or your partner is downstairs. I know I'd take a risk to try and check on my nearest and dearest.

foxinsox · 12-12-2010 9:31pm

If any of you have ever seen a house fire or had anyone close to you experience a fire, I guarantee you, you would not be joking and trying to come up with witty funny replies on here.

Fire spreads amazingly quickly and yes it is smoke inhalation that usually kills people.

Most houses now have double glazed windows, which I would imagine are very hard to break. I watched a fireman breaking one only last night, it did NOT break with one hit of an axe! He had to hit it a few times to knock it through.

PLEASE make sure you all have aedaquate smoke alarms and have thought through an escape plan for your family.

Fire is horrendous and can kill people very quickly.

BE SAFE

Fukuyama · 12-12-2010 9:33pm

orourkeda wrote: »

Most windows dont allow for adults to exit them very easily as I'm sure you're aware. Certainly not someone of my height and build. In all probability if your escape route has been blocked by flames you will ned to smash the window. Therefore you will need to find something to smash the window, smash it and then jump out in a matter of seconds.

There is a fair probability that the resulting jump will result in injuries of some description.

Okay.... I'm 6 foor 1 and I just managed to get myself into a position whereby I could leap from my window. It's the type where it has to opening sides with a stationary part in the middle. Very common.

If there was a fire I'm pretty sure people could make themselves fit out just about any window.

Also, if there is a need to break it, I don't think it would take too long.

EDIT: Also, if any of you are my neighbour, thanks for giving me those looks while I conducted a very important practical experiment. Weirdo...

Most rooms have chairs, TVs, blah blah...

Wicklowrider · 12-12-2010 9:34pm

You would not believe how big an average room FEELS like when its filled with smoke.In the heat and smoke they feel HUGE. If you aren't very careful,feeling your way along the wall for example, you lose any sense of direction and stumble around. You cannot breathe smoke for any length of time before succumbing to it. Honestly, its not like in the films. Smoke has to be experienced to be understood and the heat from a "small fire" contained in a room is unbelievable - probably many times hotter than your oven.