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Post by sweetpea on Jun 15, 2017 23:16:09 GMT
In light of the recent UK tragedy of the Grenfell tower block in London, I would like to post advice on how to quickly & safely evacuate your birds/pets in an emergency. There is already plenty of good advice already written on the web, so I will post some links. From what I have read, the key is PREPARATION because if there was a real emergency you would likely be stressed yourself & less likely to think straight, so anything that helps you (& your birds) through the ordeal can only be of benefit. The following link is well written & has some good ideas. Their main 'trick' is use of a pillowcase to catch up birds & also keep them safe. www.birdtricks.com/blog/how-to-evacuate-parrots-when-you-only-have-seconds/This link also has some good points: www.beautyofbirds.com/evacuation.htmlIf anyone else has any other advice/tips/tricks/ideas then feel free to share here!
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jun 16, 2017 7:32:43 GMT
Thanks for posting this sweetpea. I hope that it never comes to this for anyone but it's useful to have. I had my own small brush with fire in the year of the London riots when someone set fire to a tree outside my window. The front room was filled with smoke and the fire brigade evacuated our building. When they banged on my door I told them that I was getting my birds first. So we managed to get them all in one cage and my husband carried them down the 2 flights of stairs (you're not allowed to use a lift when there is a fire) I think I Peed the Firemen off but I was not leaving my birds. Of course this is nothing like as bad as what those poor people in Kensington have suffered and I would never pretend it was, but this small incident was terrifying.
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Post by Shirls on Jun 16, 2017 7:48:52 GMT
That is so good of you sweetpea. One of the first things I thought of with that terrible, tragic fire was about pets. I know you are not supposed to have pets in flats, but lots of people would have a budgie. How thoughtful of you to post this information. As you say, hopefully none of us will be put in that position. Well done you. How scarey that must have been Marianne. I did think what I would do in case of a fire and like you, my birds would come first and I would never leave them behind.
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Post by samwiseg on Jun 17, 2017 7:01:45 GMT
Thank you so much for posting this sweetpea it made me think EXACTLY the same thing as we too live in a block of flats (not as high) but still no means of escape - we dont have a fire escape apart from the stairwell and we are on the top floor. It has made me think about posing questions to our council as we dont even have means of a fire blanket or extinguisher which I am lead to believe is the responsibility of any landlord to have put in every flat. So the budgie pillowcase trick is genius and the links on the info too. Well done SP and thank you x
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Post by rose on Jun 17, 2017 11:20:06 GMT
Thanks for posting this sweetpea. I hope that it never comes to this for anyone but it's useful to have. I had my own small brush with fire in the year of the London riots when someone set fire to a tree outside my window. The front room was filled with smoke and the fire brigade evacuated our building. When they banged on my door I told them that I was getting my birds first. So we managed to get them all in one cage and my husband carried them down the 2 flights of stairs (you're not allowed to use a lift when there is a fire) I think I Peed the Firemen off but I was not leaving my birds. Of course this is nothing like as bad as what those poor people in Kensington have suffered and I would never pretend it was, but this small incident was terrifying. Gosh Marianne, how terrifying for you! And the smoke must have been a real worry, both vis-a-vis birds and humans. There was one of the doctors who'd been treating some of the poor Grenfell towerblock people on the news yesterday, and he was saying that some of them had their lungs full of really hot particles ... Even when/if they recover in the short term, that must be a real concern for the future, with the possibility of, eg, cancer ...
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Post by rose on Jun 17, 2017 11:25:59 GMT
In light of the recent UK tragedy of the Grenfell tower block in London, I would like to post advice on how to quickly & safely evacuate your birds/pets in an emergency. There is already plenty of good advice already written on the web, so I will post some links. From what I have read, the key is PREPARATION because if there was a real emergency you would likely be stressed yourself & less likely to think straight, so anything that helps you (& your birds) through the ordeal can only be of benefit. The following link is well written & has some good ideas. Their main 'trick' is use of a pillowcase to catch up birds & also keep them safe. www.birdtricks.com/blog/how-to-evacuate-parrots-when-you-only-have-seconds/This link also has some good points: www.beautyofbirds.com/evacuation.htmlIf anyone else has any other advice/tips/tricks/ideas then feel free to share here! Thanks ever so much for posting this, Sweetpea - really useful advice, because you never know ... Absolutely dreadful re the residents, but I'd also been thinking of the poor pets in the tower block. Many many years ago when - shock horror! - I was a visiting officer for DHSS in north London, I remember having to see a woman near the top of a similar block who kept an alsatian?!? Seemed all kinds of wrong to me, to have a dog like that confined to a high-rise flat ...
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Post by Marianne Marlow on May 26, 2024 14:02:53 GMT
Just thought I would resurrect this old thread due to get another evacuation for us yesterday.
I posted it in the What are your birds doing right now thread but will re-post it here
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Post by Marianne Marlow on May 26, 2024 14:05:09 GMT
sweetpea Do you have a procedure in place for an evacuation? I am thinking that I should limit the number of birds I rehome in future because I am now panicking that I wont be able to keep them safe. My anxiety levels are at an all time high. It was different before we had Eve. But now obviously she comes first.
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Post by Azalea on May 26, 2024 14:22:59 GMT
That is scary! I am glad you were able to get all of the Budgies out.
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Post by Azalea on May 26, 2024 14:30:34 GMT
Regarding an older comment by rose above: Some larger dog breeds have a low amount of energy for their size, and can actually be content in a flat/apartment. I don't know if the Alsatian is one of them, however.
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Post by skysmum on May 26, 2024 14:48:24 GMT
Just thought I would resurrect this old thread due to get another evacuation for us yesterday. I posted it in the What are your birds doing right now thread but will re-post it here Oh what a nightmare for you all M, that must have been so hard and stressful Were all the budgies already in their cages as it was early?. The worry would be if it was at a time when they were all out and the time it would take to get them in, food for thought wherever you live i guess, house or flat
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Post by jellybean on May 26, 2024 16:44:52 GMT
I can only imagine how stressed you must feel Marianne. I'm glad family and birdies are all safe.
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Post by sweetpea on May 26, 2024 20:15:32 GMT
sweetpea Do you have a procedure in place for an evacuation? I am thinking that I should limit the number of birds I rehome in future because I am now panicking that I wont be able to keep them safe. My anxiety levels are at an all time high. It was different before we had Eve. But now obviously she comes first. Oh dear... I'm so sorry you had to evacuate yesterday. What an ordeal it must have been. I can certainly sympathise with your anxiety over it. I wrote a blog post about my own procedure, which is pretty much the same today with my current three: Link to blog postMy main worry is how to catch them & get them into the carrier cage. What if one gets out of the cage & is flying around the room in a panic, or is already out & about? Apart from Fat Frediano, the other two would be near impossible to catch in any reasonable time span! It's bad enough waiting for them to 'go home' when I need to go out, let alone expecting them to co-operate in an emergency. And that's anxiety over just 3 birds...
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Post by Marianne Marlow on May 27, 2024 8:14:34 GMT
They were all in their cages yes. But as we cannot carry 4 cages down the stairs, they had to be amalgamated into two. We tried to get them all in 1 cage, but the IMAC cage has a really small doorway and it was impossible to grab any of the budgies in there. Thinking that we may have to stop using that cage and just use the 3 visions. Wonder how Rocky would feel with 3 new housemates at night.. Oh what a nightmare for you all M, that must have been so hard and stressful Were all the budgies already in their cages as it was early?. The worry would be if it was at a time when they were all out and the time it would take to get them in, food for thought wherever you live i guess, house or flat
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Post by Marianne Marlow on May 27, 2024 8:15:33 GMT
Thanks you JB. I saw the firemen walk past yesterday and I started shaking as I thought they were going to evacuate us again. I can only imagine how stressed you must feel Marianne. I'm glad family and birdies are all safe.
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