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[–] 39 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Only needs to happen once in a lifetime. Grease fires are more common than you might think.

I imagine someone who wasn't taught stop drop and roll would just run around panicking. But probably a lot of people who were taught it as well.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I imagine it was also more common when people regularly had fires in their own homes. I bought that same child a pair of pajamas as a toddler that had a million warning tags about keeping them away from open flames because they weren't flame resistant... Not a problem, I tended to keep my babies away from open flames regardless.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago

    My stepbrother was caught in a house fire as a teenager and he has third degree burn scars over like 60% of his body. Stop, drop and roll probably saved his life.

    So it does happen, but it's always like there's this person who knows this guy that it happened to and not like it happened to everyone.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Children are fantastic at injuring themselves. My oldest, now grown, really wanted to touch the candle flame. No amount of removing him from the situation and telling him it was hot stopped him from trying to touch the fire. He learned the hard way. If he had panicked I could see him lightning himself on fire.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    I omve touched the muffler of my dad’s bike when I was real small. If I remember correctly, he just went “well what did you expect?”(not in an uncaring way, mind) since I was told not to touch it. Truly, what the hell did I expect?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It happened to me but that would have been the wrong reaction, tearing my overalls off was much more effective

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