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Recommendations:
1. Stay calm.
2. Call112.
3. Collaborate with the surveillance and forest fire prevention professionals, and follow their instructions.
4. Try to keep the wind at your back.
If you're in a mountain side area:
In the case of a small fire:
1. Try turning it off by using water, branches or earth at the base of the flames.
2. Ensure an emergency exit plan, preferably opposite wind direction.
3. After turning it off, cover up the area and clean the surrounding branches.
If case of a bigger fire:
1. Get away from the fire in the opposite direction of the smoke.
2. Breathe through your nose covering your mouth and nose with a wet cloth.
3. Do not seek shelter in caves, barns or agricultural sheds, deep valleys, higher elevations of the land, nor in the direction of the wind.
4. Remember that fire climbs up just like in a chimney, faster than it may seem at first glance. If you move down a slope, walking down the flanks stepping firm and secure without running and always downhill or perpendicular to the direction the fire is spreading.
5. If the fire corners you, try to get away on its side, seeking a vegetation free area.
6. Do not use a vehicle if you are surrounded by fire.
7. Do not try to cross the flames over without knowing what lays behind in case you get trapped. If there is no other way out, wet your clothes, protect your face and cross through the narrowest or lowest pollution section.
8. If the fire reaches you, find shelter in streams or in already burned areas and laying down behind a rock or covered in dirt, close to the ground as that is where the air is purer.
9. If your clothes are on fire, do not run. Roll on the ground or cover yourself with a blanket instead: the fire will get extinguished from lack of air.
10. In case of aviation or firefighters intervention acts, protect yourself from water impact.
If you're in a house next to a fire:
1. Close all doors, windows, shutters and other possible air intakes.
2. If the fire gets to your house, staying indoors, in the house, is safer.
3. Do not block the accessing paths for rescue vehicles.
If you collaborate in putting out a fire:
1. Always follow the indications of firemen, civil protection, civil guard and other agents.
2. Work together with others as a team and avoid isolation on yr own.
3. Obey the removal order given by the person in charge of the extinction or the indications made by the other agents involved.
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