According to rescue paramedic Maxim Shtyb, the most common cases when children require the help of rescuers is when a child remains locked inside an apartment or gets stuck in some place. In winter, there are often reports of children falling through the ice or touching a metal object and becoming frozen to it, writes ridus.ru.
“The worst case scenario is if the child gets lost, especially if lost in a forest area. Several years ago there was a case in a village in the Leningrad region – they thought that a child was lost in the forest. Rescuers had already left and were preparing to go into the forest, then they decided to search the house a little. We came in and he was under the blanket. His parents just didn’t see him and thought that he had gone into the forest: there was the last house in front of the edge,” Shtyb said.
Fire safety expert at the main department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Moscow Region, Vitaly Boyko, also spoke about games with fire that are common among children, after which they have to call rescuers.
“Children really often play with matches and lighters, and on New Year’s Day with firecrackers. It happens that some kind of arson is set in nature – in the forest, in the steppes,” Boyko said.
The fireman called attempts to set fire to poplar fluff in late spring and early summer a particularly dangerous prank:
“With one spark in dry weather, it can cause a fire to spread quickly.”
Source: Rosbalt
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