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This is false. Especially in the active shooter case, where staying put is explicitly discouraged by all professional training on the matter: https://www.ready.
by ocdtrekkie 6y ago
This is false. Especially in the active shooter case, where staying put is explicitly discouraged by all professional training on the matter: https://www.ready.gov/public-spaces https://www.ready.gov/public-spaces
> Seek safety. Getting away from the attacker is the top priority.
> If you can’t evacuate, cover and hide.
This is generally true in most disaster scenarios. Staying is often "dying". If you are in a burning building, you should leave the burning building. If you are on a sinking ship, you actually should leave the sinking ship rather than go under inside it.
Where ever the disaster is, get away from it.
- pasabagi 6y agoYMMV. A friend of mine was recently in a fire, and several of her neighbors died because they tried to leave using the stairs, then succumbed to smoke inhalation. Everybody who stayed in their flats survived. I think it's awfully situational, but in the case of a fire, if you live in a house with decent fire standards (thick doors, fire-retardant insulation), I think you might be safer staying inside and waiting for a truck to come with a ladder. I would probably leave my flat through the window, with a rope. It's not terribly high, so if I mess up, I'd probably just break my legs.