How to Save Your Own Life in 12 Scary Emergencies

Emergencies happen

While your odds of having a heart attack are much higher than those of finding yourself in most of these scenarios, strange things happen every day. For example, every 12 seconds, someone called a poison center for help in 2017. Each year an estimated 646, 000 people die of traumata from falling. In 2017, search-and-rescue rangers in our national parks responded to more than 3,453 calls, including for people who were also sick or injured. In 2015 alone, more than 5,000 people died from choking in the United State. While 90 percent of people hit by lightning survive, about 27 Americans are killed by lightning strikes every year. How do you keep yourself out of the statistics? Besides calling 911, here’s what to do in life-threatening emergencies when no one’s around to help.

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