Collection Of Tragedies

Here, the stickers go on the children’s windows. They are reflective stickers with a picture of a firefighter on them. The firefighters can enter those rooms first to save the children.

Cases like these already happened in Germany, but also in every other country: The house is burning and small children are trapped in the nursery where the parents can’t reach them due to the fire blocking the way. Then it’s up to the men from the fire brigade to save the children. However this is not so easy if they don’t get a detailed description of the location of the nursery. Thus the enterprise GVV-Privatversicherung AG and the fire brigade of Cologne (with financial support from the enterprise Ströer) now created a ‘Kinder-Finder’ (child-finder). This is a sticker in the form of a triangle you should stick on the lower third of the door of the nursery. As the sticker is made of white and reflecting material it should be easy for the men to find the children in time.
My source is “Domradio”.

On March 16th 1988 Saddam Hussein used poisoned gas upon the Kurdish city of Halabaja. The Iraqi enterprises that produced the chemicals and stuff other than that needed in this attack were supported by Germay. “GfbV” says that now, exactly 30 years later, descendants of the survivors of this attack still are born with cancer, diseases that affect the skin or the ability to breathe or with infertility. Also there still are many stillbirths and miscarriages, plus children who are born with a heavy disability.

The German newspaper “Das Allgäu” says that this Thursday in Tyrol a young Austrian lady of only 17 years died by drowning after the car she and her two companions sat in crashed into a lake and sank. She was sitting in the back seat and the other two were in the front seats. When the car hit the water the other two opened their doors to get out of the sinking vehicle. Sadly by doing so they allowed for the water to enter quicker than before. Thus the whole thing was under water before the girl in the back seat could get out. She drowned. One of her companions was German, so this case received some medial attention in Germany, too.
The “Deutsche Lebensrettungs-Gesellschaft” for example is a German organisation giving tips how to act in certain dangerous situations, like a fire, falling into a river or witnessing a car accident and they even voluntary help people in accidents like these too. They saw this as a reason to inform people how to act in a situation like the one these three young people were in:
>Depending on where the motor is either the front or the back of the car will be flooded first as the heavy weight of the motor of course pushes the whole thing under water.
>Depending on how many people, things or animals are in the car and where they are in the car, the vehicle may turn over in the water or move otherwise.
>All the air may be compressed into the back of the car – for example the cargo bay -, but don’t try to reach it. This bubble may burst sometime later and you’ll risk drowning.
>You should get out head first through the sun roof or the window that is closest to your seat. Don’t open the door. You’ll flood the car quicker.
>If there are two people in the front, they should open both windows synchronously and get out as fast as they can.
>Help people in the back seat by tilting back the seat backs of the front seats if there are no windows that can be opened in the back. Otherwise they may not get out in time.
>If you can’t get out in time and the car is already under water, wait until it hits the ground. Don’t try to open any door or window while the vehicle is still sinking.
>All the tossing and turning and tumbling the car does on its way to the ground may be confusing. So just follow the bubbles to make it to the surface.
>Chances are you may get into a strong current of water on your way to the shore. Never try to swim against the current. Most human beings are not strong enough and risk drowning in the floods. Let the current carry you and try to get to the shore while swimming along with the current. You should do so while lying on your back – which is the least exhausting method -, but keeping an eye on what’s ahead of you.
>Don’t try to grab any poles, rocks or trees in the water. They may cause a strong swirl that could drag you under water and drown you. Also in case of a tree or bush in the water you may get entangled in the branches under the water surface and drown.
>Maybe your reactions in a situation like this will be faster if you repeatedly tell yourself these tips let’s say every day or week. Like for example the alphabet! You repeatedly told yourself the alphabet as a child and now you don’t need any time at all to decipher for example a letter, a word or even an entire sentence.

>According to “Focus”, a German newspaper this week in Essen, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany a mother of three children died this week of the measles. The number of people dying of the measles has decreased rapidly since a vaccine was discovered, but even though this is for free in Germany there are areas where about 35% of all citizens have not received their vaccine yet.
>South Africa currently faces its biggest drought since 1917.