Tips for Creating Distress Signals

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Eric Sterns with Expert Village and we are discussing signaling with respect to emergency situations and what we are going to talk about now is the nature of what signaling is. What you are doing is whether you are using visual signals or audible signals, you are breaking a pattern. There is an established routine that people tend to have when they are driving or hiking whether it is visual or audible with the car horn or with the radio running and what you are doing whether they are drive or walking is someone who is in the same vicinity as you, you are using their tools to break their pattern to notice something is not right. This could be through your vehicle horn, a whistle that you may be carrying, through a side arm, through the use of your car lights, your hazard lights, flashlights or beacons that you might carry with you separately. Any number of things, flares that you can lay out along the road, anything that will cause the person's attention to veer from where it usually is to where you need it to be to get attention so they can begin a rescue or to get you some help. "