How not to get lost in the forest and
what you need to remember when going for mushrooms? About these volunteers of
the search squad told schoolchildren resting in the camp "Birch
Grove." Here, children under the supervision and on their own do not go
outside the recreation center. Nevertheless, such activities, the volunteers
are sure, will be useful to children. By the way, for many adults, some advice
on the rules of conduct in the forest often turned out to be a discovery.
Camp "Birch Grove" is
located in the forest. Security is strictly monitored here. The territory is
fenced and guarded. Each child is instructed.
A separate topic is a loss in the
forest. The number of strayers has increased recently. On Sunday alone, Lisa
Alert received 14 applications to search for missing people. Among them there
are children.
"In general, this should not be
so that the child is alone in the forest. He is sure to be with his parents and
not far from the place where they live," says Maria Lapsheva, volunteer of
the search and rescue squad Lisa Alert.
The specifics of adult search and
children's search are different. Finding children is much more difficult. The
reason is the lack of at least some knowledge about the behavior in such
situations.
"The behavior of children in the
forest in a stressful situation does not lend itself to any logic. A child may
cross the road, fail to notice the power line, pass by the village and, most
likely, the child will respond poorly to the screams of rescuers,"
explains Timur Orlov, volunteer of the Lisa Alert search and rescue squad.
So what to do in order not to get lost
in the forest? What to take with you, even if you are sure that you will not
get lost? For many children, it was a discovery, for example, that you can call
for help with the help of a whistle. In this case, you will not break the
voice. Or you can knock on wood. These sounds are well heard in the forest, and
they will find the loss faster. But the most important thing is to stay in
place and not to go anywhere. Among life hacks from volunteers - what to do if
you are injured in the forest, why you need a chocolate bar and why bright
clothes are better than camouflage.
"Here is the perfect option. A reflective
vest with reflective
fabric is sold in any
car shop. If you shine a flashlight on it at night, it is visible from
afar."
But the biggest help for search
engines, of course, is a mobile phone. The number of rescue service 112 needs
to know by heart. In case you get lost, it is important to protect the phone’s
charge. In 80% of cases, searches are successful if the loss can get in touch.
"People do not follow safety
rules. First, go to the forest without a charged phone. Or, as soon as they've
lost, they begin to land the phone, they call all relatives and the phone’s
charge simply runs out," says Timur Orlov, volunteer of the Lisa Alert
search and rescue squad.
So. The basic rules that every student
of the Liza Alert school should remember are to stay in place, to whistle or
knock on a tree, to respond to screams. There is no need to search for a river
to avoid the danger of drowning. Thirst will have to endure. Shelter from the
cold can be in the leaves, while sleep must be fought. Wild animals should not
be afraid. When meeting with them, it is enough to shout. Most likely, the
beast will leave.
The conversation was interesting not
only for children. Interested in the work of the school "Lisa Alert"
and teachers.
"The information is very
important, because children, as volunteers said, running into the forest, do
not think about anything. I learned a lot of important things. Whistle. I
didn't think that I needed a whistle. I didn't even think about it. I didn’t
think of knocking on wood. For me, it was something new. The children also had
a lot of important and new things," the teacher Irina Kosterina shared her
impressions of the meeting.
The school sets homework. So in the
school "Lisa Alert" they also have. Among the first is to learn the
phone numbers of parents. Remember that you cannot leave with random
passers-by. Now the volunteers of the search squad are preparing a series of
quests for children. The guys have to visit different simulated situations. And
in practice, they will have to solve the issues of survival.
