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THE TRIANGLE OF LIFE - IMPORTANT SIMPLE TIP FOR SURVIVING AN EARTHQUAKE
EXTRACT FROM DOUG COPP'S ARTICLE ON THE
"TRIANGLE OF LIFE",
Omega-News: TRIANGLE OF LIFE - Earthquake Safety Information
<http://omega.twoday.net/stories/308957/>
Edited
by Larry Linn for MAA Safety Committee brief on 4/13/04.
My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief
and Disaster Manager of the American Rescue Team International (ARTI),the
world's most experienced rescue team. The information in this article will save
lives in an earthquake.
I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked with rescue teams from 60
countries, founded rescue teams
in several countries, and I am a member of many rescue teams from
many countries. I was the United Nations expert in Disaster Mitigation (UNX051
-UNIENET) for two years. I have worked at every major disaster in the world
since 1985, except for simultaneous disasters.
In 1996 we made a film which proved my survival methodology to be
correct. The Turkish Federal Government, City of Istanbul,
University of Istanbul, Case Productions and ARTI cooperated to film this
practical, scientific test. We collapsed a school and a home with 20 mannequins
inside. Ten mannequins did "duck and cover," and ten mannequins I used in my
"triangle of life" survival method. After the simulated earthquake collapse we
crawled through the rubble and entered the building to film and document the
results. The film, in which I practiced my survival techniques under directly
observable, scientific conditions, relevant to building collapse, showed there
would have been zero
percent survival for those doing duck and cover.
There would likely have been 100 percent survivability for people
using my method of the"triangle of life." This film has been seen by millions of
viewers on television in Turkey and the rest of Europe, and it was seen in the
USA, Canada and Latin America on the TV program Real TV.
The first building I ever crawled inside of was a school in Mexico City during
the 1985 earthquake. Every child
was under their desk. Every child was crushed to the thickness of
their bones. They could have survived by lying down next to their
desks in the aisles. It was obscene, unnecessary and I wondered why the children
were not in the aisles. I didn't at the time know that the children were told to
hide under something.
Simply stated, when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceilings falling upon
the objects or furniture inside
crushes these objects, leaving a space or void next to them. This
space is what I call the" triangle of life". The larger the object, the
stronger, the less it will compact. The less
the object compacts, the larger the void, the greater the probability that the
person who is using this void for
safety will not be injured. The next time you watch collapsed buildings, on
television, count the "triangles" you see formed. They are everywhere.
It is the most common shape, you will see, in a collapsed building. They are
everywhere. I trained the Fire Department of Trujillo (population 750,000) in
how to survive, take care of their families, and to rescue others in
earthquakes.
The chief of rescue in the Trujillo Fire Department is a professor at Trujillo
University. He accompanied me everywhere. He gave personal testimony:
"My name is Roberto Rosales. I am Chief of Rescue in Trujillo. When I was 11
years old, I was trapped inside of a collapsed building. My entrapment occurred
during the earthquake of 1972 that killed 70,000 people. I survived in the
"triangle of life" that existed next to my brother's motorcycle. My friends who
got under the bed and under desks were crushed to death [he
gives more details, names, addresses etc.]...I am the living
example of the "triangle of life". My dead friends are the example of "duck and
cover".
TIPS DOUG COPP PROVIDES:
1) Everyone who simply "ducks and covers" WHEN BUILDINGS COLLAPSE is crushed to
death -- Every time, without
exception. People who get under objects, like desks or cars, are always crushed.
2) Cats, dogs and babies all naturally often curl up in the fetal position. You
should too in an earthquake. It
is a natural safety/survival instinct. You can survive in a
smaller void. Get next to an object, next to a sofa, next to a large bulky
object that will compress slightly but leave a void next to it.
3) Wooden buildings are the safest type of construction to be in during an
earthquake. The reason is simple: the wood is flexible and moves with the force
of the earthquake. If the
wooden building does collapse, large survival voids are created.
Also, the wooden building has less concentrated, crushing weight. Brick
buildings will break into individual bricks. Bricks will cause many injuries but
less squashed bodies than concrete slabs.
4) If you are in bed during the night and an earthquake occurs, simply roll off
the bed. A safe void will exist around the bed. Hotels can achieve a much
greater survival rate in earthquakes, simply by posting a sign on the back of
the door of every
room, telling occupants to lie down on the floor, next to the bottom of the bed
during an earthquake.
5) If an earthquake happens while you are
watching television and you cannot easily escape by getting out the door or
window, then lie down and curl up in the fetal position next to a sofa, or large
chair.
6) Everybody who gets under a doorway when buildings collapse is killed. How? If
you stand under a doorway and the doorjamb falls forward or backward you will be
crushed by the
ceiling above. If the door jam falls sideways you will be cut in
half by the doorway. In either case, you will be killed!
7) Never go to the stairs. The stairs have a different "moment of frequency"
(they swing separately from the main part of the building).The stairs and
remainder of the building continuously bump into each other until structural
failure of the stairs takes place.
The people who get on stairs before they fail are chopped up by the stair
treads. They are horribly mutilated.
Even if the building doesn't collapse, stay away from the stairs.
The stairs are a likely part of the building to be damaged. Even if the stairs
are not collapsed by the earthquake, they may collapse later when overloaded by
screaming, fleeing people. They should always be checked for safety, even when
the rest of the building is not damaged.
8) Get Near the Outer Walls Of Buildings Or Outside Of Them If Possible - It is
much better to be near the outside of
the building rather than the interior. The farther inside you are from the
outside perimeter of the building the greater the probability that your escape
route will be blocked;
9) People inside of their vehicles are crushed when the road above falls in an
earthquake and crushes their vehicles; which is exactly what happened with the
slabs between the decks
of the Nimitz Freeway. The victims of the San Francisco earthquake all stayed
inside of their vehicles. They were all killed.
They could have easily survived by getting out and sitting or lying next to
their vehicles, says the author. Everyone killed would have survived if they had
been able to get out of their cars and sit or lie next to them. All the crushed
cars had voids 3 feet high next to them, except for the cars that had columns
fall directly across them.
10) I discovered, while crawling inside of collapsed newspaper offices and other
offices with a lot of paper, that paper does not compact. Large voids are found
surrounding stacks of
paper.
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