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Instructions for helping someone else

Battery or electrical device fire

What to do

  1. Smoking or burning battery: warn others and leave immediately.
  2. From safety, call and report the fire location and anyone missing.
  3. Child/person needing assistance: accompany only along safe exit, no re-entry. Unable to escape: give exact location/mobility to rescue. No improvised rope/unsafe stair carrying.
  4. Do not touch/move smoking battery or approach to unplug. Apparently out: no return until firefighters clear. Reignition possible. Device blocks exit: trapped guide, no passing fire.

What to avoid

  1. Do not try to extinguish or move it to save the device.
Smoke inhalation: warning signsExit blocked: trappedBurn: cool and coverBreathing difficulty