Contents:
- Medical Video: Top Three Skills for Climbing Every Rocket League Rank
- Guides to maintain personal safety when caught in a crowd
- 1. Study the map and access in and out
- 2. Roll to the side if pressed
- 3. Protect your chest and head; don't shout
- 4. Contact authorized personnel
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Watching concerts, music festivals, and sports competitions is an unforgettable exciting experience. But sometimes the crowd of people who are enjoying this special moment can turn into a life-threatening disaster when triggered by panic or enormous enthusiasm.
Still fresh in memory in May 2017 where a suicide bombing outside the arena of the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester England left 23 people dead and 250 others seriously injured in being trapped in a frantic crowd trying to save themselves. One of the worst football disasters in the world, the Hillsborough disaster in Sheffield, occurred when a barrier in the stadium collapsed causing fans to start falling on top of each other like a deadly domino. A total of 96 people were killed as a result of being crushed to run out of air and internal bleeding while 766 were seriously injured.
So, what should you do when you are stuck in the same situation? Check the details below so you can guarantee your safety, as well as others, when at concerts or music festivals.
Guides to maintain personal safety when caught in a crowd
Here are tips for maintaining personal safety if you have to travel to crowded places such as concerts, festivals, and soccer matches, or even in other public crowds.
1. Study the map and access in and out
Take time to find out and memorize the closest exit access around you. This means you have to know where the nearest emergency door is and the fastest route to reach there. You will find it hard to think clearly when trapped in a sea of people who are panicking and chaotic.
Your instinct might say to use the same access when you log in to exit. Not because it's safer, but because you are familiar with the location. But often the door you use to enter is not the closest exit. There may be alternative solutions used by fewer people that will get you out faster, very useful if you already know where it is. So be prepared to know where to go once needed.
2. Roll to the side if pressed
Pay attention to the arrangement of seating and understand the map of the layout of your location and position of your seat. The front row near the stage might be the most fun place to enjoy the event, but consider a thousand times for book tickets in this area because of the crowd behind you can decide at any time to push forward to the stage, which can hurt your position.
If you begin to feel pressed, immediately move to the outer edge. It is important to stay calm and move slowly if possible, but if you are squeezed and carried away by the crowd, don't push back. Just follow the flow until it stops.
Usually, after you are pushed forward, there will be a slight pause where people temporarily stop pushing each other. Use this opportunity to moving back and forth between people. A few steps back, then there is another wave, then flip again in the next pause, then wave again. And so on until you arrive at the edge. If possible, stay away from glass.
If you feel that there are too many people in the room, or not enough free space to go out if you need to, consider leaving.
3. Protect your chest and head; don't shout
When you are stuck in a crowd before you can step aside, keep calm and don't panic. Remember the second point; keep moving if you can and follow the flow. Don't fight. Fighting the flow will risk falling. Let the human current take you wherever it goes, and immediately begin to move sideways as soon as there is a pause.
Meanwhile, protect your chest and head. Keep your front arm in front of you like a boxer - a fist in front of your face and your arms parallel parallel to the front of your chest - to dampen the impact. Many of the consequences of death due to mass crowds at concerts are not from being trampled on but from the great pressure that causes air to run out (compression asphyxia) and internal organ damage that occurs when people are squashed in the crowd. Try to stay calm and don't scream or scream to preserve your oxygen and energy.
Try to stay upright. If you fall, try to get back up. Reaching other people is a good idea. If someone is looking for help, pull them to stand up. Try to keep your balance between the flow of the body. If you drop a wallet or other item, leave it. Your priority is to leave the location as soon as possible. If you are with a group, do not separate yourself and help each other.
If there is a fire, duck down and close your mouth with your hands or clothes. Both heat and smoke will move up. If you fall and can't get up, some experts recommend protecting yourself by lying on your side, covering your head with your arms and pulling your legs together curled up.
4. Contact authorized personnel
Once you get out of the arena, immediately contact the police or other authorized officers. Don't assume that someone out there has contacted them first.
- Ambulance (118 or 119); for DKI Jakarta Province (021-65303118)
- Firefighters (113)
- Police (110)
