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a funny Survival trick for a Urban dweller..
If you are trapped inside burning building experts recommend you try to seal yourself within a room by blocking off all areas that smoke may enter. For example, you may escape into a bathroom and use wet towels around the cracks of doors and windows to prevent toxic fumes from entering.
People are excellent at coming up with novel ideas on how to survive anything and fires are no exception. US Patent Number 4320756 is for a tool that can supply you with enough fresh air to survive should you be trapped in a room.
A good example of how survivors think outside the box
Toilet Survival If the room you are in contains too much toxic smoke, simply insert the snorkel-like device down through the water trap of a drain such as a toilet. In this way you can tap into the vent pipe where there is a fresh air supply available. Of course there may very well be some sewer gas but it is far better than the unbreathable toxic air in the room.
The idea seems plausible. What I especially like about this toilet survival snorkel device is that it taps into a method that is obvious once you see it. Thinking outside the box in this way is actually very difficult to do and most of us not having known about it would not have come up with this idea even in a life threatening situation.
This interesting survival idea may work without the patented device. You could try a variety of other tubing that is at hand. Vacuum cleaner hoses or any other flexible tubing could possibly be shoved down through the water trap and into a breathable air supply that allows you to survive while waiting for help.
Lacking suitable hose you may be able to break the connection where the water trap meets the pipe and obtain the air directly.
You need to be very careful when attempting to breath air from the water conduit. Not all are vented to the outdoors so you may end up inhaling a lung full of pure sewer gas which may dispatch you faster than the toxic fumes of the fire. So dont try this at home and use only in a dire emergency where life is at stake.
If you are trapped inside burning building experts recommend you try to seal yourself within a room by blocking off all areas that smoke may enter. For example, you may escape into a bathroom and use wet towels around the cracks of doors and windows to prevent toxic fumes from entering.
People are excellent at coming up with novel ideas on how to survive anything and fires are no exception. US Patent Number 4320756 is for a tool that can supply you with enough fresh air to survive should you be trapped in a room.
A good example of how survivors think outside the box
Toilet Survival If the room you are in contains too much toxic smoke, simply insert the snorkel-like device down through the water trap of a drain such as a toilet. In this way you can tap into the vent pipe where there is a fresh air supply available. Of course there may very well be some sewer gas but it is far better than the unbreathable toxic air in the room.
The idea seems plausible. What I especially like about this toilet survival snorkel device is that it taps into a method that is obvious once you see it. Thinking outside the box in this way is actually very difficult to do and most of us not having known about it would not have come up with this idea even in a life threatening situation.
This interesting survival idea may work without the patented device. You could try a variety of other tubing that is at hand. Vacuum cleaner hoses or any other flexible tubing could possibly be shoved down through the water trap and into a breathable air supply that allows you to survive while waiting for help.
Lacking suitable hose you may be able to break the connection where the water trap meets the pipe and obtain the air directly.
You need to be very careful when attempting to breath air from the water conduit. Not all are vented to the outdoors so you may end up inhaling a lung full of pure sewer gas which may dispatch you faster than the toxic fumes of the fire. So dont try this at home and use only in a dire emergency where life is at stake.
,Grandma's water heater bottle....
