Where is the safest place when it thunders and rains?

Hide in low-lying, dry or leeward houses or caves. However, low-rise buildings without lightning protection facilities, such as shacks and sentry boxes, cannot enter.

Lightning often hits areas with tall objects. Therefore, during a thunderstorm, we should pay attention to the topography, prohibit staying at the top of the mountain or in hilly areas, and do not get close to tall trees, telephone poles, chimneys, billboards and other sharp and isolated objects. You should stop outdoor activities immediately and find a lightning protection place as soon as possible. You can take refuge in low-lying, dry or leeward houses or caves.

When it thunders, it is forbidden to stand in the open space. If you are in an open place and have no time to escape indoors, you should immediately kneel on the ground with your knees in your hands, your feet together, bend forward, your chest close to your knees, and your eyes look down at the ground, because your head is most vulnerable to lightning. Never support the ground with your hands, which will expand the contact range between your body and the ground and increase the risk of being struck by lightning.

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When struck by lightning, it is very important to save yourself at the first time. If lightning hits the head and spreads to the ground through the body, it will paralyze people's nerves and heart, which is likely to be fatal. When people are impacted by lightning current, their hearts either stop beating or the beating rate is extremely irregular, resulting in vibration. In both cases, blood circulation will stop, leading to brain nerve damage, and people may die within a few minutes.

If clothes catch fire, you should lie down immediately and put out the flame so that it won't burn your face, otherwise the injured person may die of lack of oxygen or burn. You can also splash water on the injured, or wrap it in a thick coat or blanket to put out the fire.

If the electric shock victim has fallen into a coma and stopped breathing, he should lie on his back, unbutton his clothes and immediately carry out resuscitation and rescue. At the same time of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, he should also perform chest compressions. The key points of action are: put your hands on the middle and lower sternum 1/3 and press vertically. The ratio of artificial heart pressurized ventilation is 30∶2.

People's Daily Online-Reminder: Seven Notices and Nine Taboos in Thunderstorm Weather.