Why is it that when you’re clothes catch fire, your supposed to stop drop and roll? I do understand how stop-drop-roll works. But wouldn’t it be better to just remove your clothes? Especially if its clothes that don’t need to go over ur face to be taken off.
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Try to remove your clothing while someone chases you with a blow torch.
I would rather stop drop and roll.
When your clothes catch fire, it’s important to remember that stop-drop-roll is a fast and safe way to put out the flames. Taking off your clothes can be a bit slower, and in a hurry, you might accidentally touch the burning clothes with your hands or make the fire worse.
Stop-drop-roll helps you quickly smother the flames by using your body to put them out, and it’s less risky. But if it’s easy to remove your clothes without touching the fire, you can do that too. The most important thing is to stay safe and put out the fire as fast as possible.
Not for fire.
Removing clothes is what you do after a chemical spill (or radiation/biological), but studies have shown that in the event of a chemical weapons attack, a big percentage of Americans would rather die, than remove their clothes in public. Seriously, this is a known problem.
Fun fact, when you stop dropp and roll you need to make a concerted effort to lay flat. I did everything like how I was told, but I didn’t realize I left my knees bent. Managed to get some pretty severe burns to my calves and shins.
Ended up running down the street with no clothes on, right past my parents and into the shower with, apparently, smoke streaming behind me
Tl;dr getting out of clothes maybr too complicated. Stop drop and roll works fast and is easy to remember and do in emergency situations.
Okay, so I was a dumbass once (well more than once but only this one is relevant)
I had an accident involving fire and gasoline. Stop, drop, roll probably saved me from pretty severe injuries.
Anyway, I was on fire… I was in pain (fires hot y’all) and very panicked. Stop, drop, roll was super simple and my brain was in pure instinct mode. It was winter in Alberta and I had multiple layers on. Thinking how to get them all off was just not something my brain could understand.
I used to think all the times I was taught to stop drop and roll was annoying, but that repetition burned it into my head .
We were on my brother’s boat a few years back on Canada Day and a girl who was a friend of a friend got too close to the propane fire pit with a flowing light summer dress and it went up in flames.
There was no room to drop and roll and people initially tried to pay out the fire… then someone – I can’t remember who – yanked her dress down, stepped on it and lifted her away from the fire. They then threw the still burning dress into the ocean (you really don’t want a fire on a boat)
She stood there – completely unharmed but a little dazed – wearing nothing but a thong… so we quickly wrapped a Canadian flag around her and the festivities continued!
Are cotton and silk and wool the only materials common in our clothing that don’t melt and begin to burn and melt into our skin?
So yeah, hitting the ground and rolling is likely the fastest option.
I can barely get myself dressed/undressed at a reasonable amount of time when not on fire at all.
The people that should be removing their clothing are the bystanders so they can smother the flames!
I definitely thought catching fire would be a much more common occurrence when I was a kid.
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