14. Emergency 14.1 What is the procedure when I am facing an emergency? Most important thing is to remain or become calm. Do not panic. Try to assess the seriousness of your emergency. If you can send a sms to the Organisers Emergency Number (OEN) with your BIB and relevant information, then do so and wait for a reply and further instructions. If the emergency doesn't require immediate intervention, attract the attention of one of your fellow hikers. If you are facing a serious emergency, you can't reach the race organisers nor one of your peers, call the 112 emergency services. Use your phone to obtain the GPS coordinates of your actual location and provide all necessary details of your emergency to the organisers or emergency services. Top 14.2 What am I supposed to do when I see someone who is facing an emergency? Although the Nuang Jungle Marathon is a race, helping a fellow runner in need should remain more important. Try to assess the seriousness of the emergency. Be sure that there's no immediate danger for the victim, neither for yourself and others at the place of the incident. If the runner is not breathing or you can't feel a pulse, start performing CPR before doing anything else. The CPR method is described in your Race Booklet (RB). Continue to do so until the moment someone else arrives at the scene. Then you can give instructions to make the emergency phone call while you continue performing CPR. If you can call the race organisers, do so. If the emergency requires immediate intervention, attract the attention of more runners if you need assistance. If you are facing a serious emergency, and you can't neither reach the race organisers nor one of your peers, call the 112 emergency services. Use your phone to obtain the GPS coordinates of your actual location and provide all necessary details of the emergency to the organisers or emergency services. Never leave an injured person alone. Make them feel at ease and as comfortable as possible. Talk to them and keep the conversation going. Keep the victim warm and dry. Top 14.3 How do I attract the attention of other hikers during an emergency? Yelling doesn’t carry as far as a whistle, requires vast amounts of energy, and damages the voice and throat with extended attempts. So use your whistle. A universally-recognised distress code is three equal blasts on the whistle, to be repeated until others hear it and respond with two blasts of recognition. You can also use the universal SOS distress code (three short blasts, three long blasts, three short blasts), but know that three equal blasts in a row is sufficient and indicates a distress situation. When it's dark use your headlamp in a flashing mode and use your glowing stick to draw attention to your location.  Top <<     >>