– I would probably have brought my PC with me. And my dog, says Frida Korff (24). – Mobile phone and car keys. I have all kinds of cards on my mobile, says Bartek Vik (46). – Can’t you take your loved ones with you and get out straight away? Can’t spend time looking for things if there’s a fire, says Espen Edvartsen. PRACTICAL THINKING: Bartek Vik would have taken his mobile phone and car keys with him. Photo: Jonas Ørbeck Sire / news The mobile phone reigns supreme On behalf of news, Norstat has asked Norwegians which object they would save if their home burned down. 1026 people have responded. They could only list one item each. Almost one in three answered the same. This is what the top 10 list looks like: Think many people don’t think rationally Head of Communications at the insurance company If, Sigmund Clementz, says that they too have seen that the mobile phone is at the top of many people’s priority list. – It can indicate two things: One is that if you wake up in the middle of the night, you are not necessarily acting 100 per cent rationally. Many people may have their mobile phone on their bedside table and take whatever is most easily accessible with them. – The second is that many people are so dependent on the phone that it is more important than the family album. What they may not think about is that in most cases the information on the mobile phone is stored somewhere else, says Clementz. BREACH OF INSTRUCTIONS: Espen Edvartsen believes that you cannot spend time looking for things during a fire. Photo: Jonas Ørbeck Sire / news Finally, Clementz makes a call: – What you should think about is that in a fire, life and health come before everything else. Getting people out of their homes is priority number one. Affectionate value weighs heavily Communication manager and press contact at the Bergen fire service Trine Sommerlade says that they often see that people prioritize objects with sentimental value when there is a fire. – Photo albums are a regular feature. Also, people are most interested in things that are not things, but those we love and pets first and foremost. After that there are memories and photo albums, things like that that you can’t buy again. The kind of thing that is lost forever if it burns up. Things with emotional value, she says. 110: See news’s entire series about the fire service – 110 – here. – If it’s on fire, get out Sommerlade advises people to prioritize getting out and to safety. – If it goes beyond getting out as quickly as possible, then we don’t want people to take any things with them. We don’t want people to spend time on it, she explains. The message from the fire service is thus clear: – If there is a fire, get out. – And call us and we’ll try to save what we can. First and foremost to put out the fire, but we do what we can to save valuables, says Sommerlade.
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People would save these objects if the home burned down – news Vestland
