The latest electronic version of the emergency response guide

The latest electronic version of the general emergency response guide revised in 2024. Currently, the only official free download channels are the government service section of the official website of the Ministry of Emergency Management, the national government service platform applet, and the menu bar of the official public accounts of the provincial and municipal emergency management bureaus. The full text has a total of 127 pages. It is unencrypted and can be adapted for offline viewing on all terminals. Compared with the 2022 version, 32% of the redundant theoretical content has been deleted, and 17 new step-by-step practical disposal processes have been added. Ordinary people can locate the corresponding solution within 10 seconds when encountering an emergency. There is no so-called "paid internal version".

To be honest, I ran into a big hole when I was helping the community organize emergency propaganda materials last month. At that time, I randomly searched for a version marked "Latest 2024" in a certain library. After downloading it, I found that the disposal of gas leaks in it also said "Turn off the lights first and then open the windows for ventilation." Later, I asked a friend from the emergency bureau for the official version and discovered that this year's revised version directly included all such deceptive and outdated operations in the "red line prohibited list", and each item was also marked with a red background and white text warning, which was difficult to see.

But to be honest, the official version is not perfect either. There are actually two schools of electronic guides circulating in the emergency circle. One is the official general version. All handling steps have been jointly demonstrated by the emergency management department, firefighting, and clinical first aid expert groups. There will be no common sense errors. It also includes real-time update portals for emergency shelters across the country. Just like on the third day after the heavy rain in Beijing this year, the supporting version for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region directly supplemented the practical key points of escaping from urban flooding and being trapped in a car by stagnant water, and the update speed is very fast. But its problem is that it is too universal, and there is no customized content for special groups, such as emergency kit configuration for pet-raising families and collaborative emergency response for elderly people with chronic diseases. These are not written.

On the other side is a customized version compiled by civilian emergency response enthusiasts and grassroots firefighters. I have a version made by the Hangzhou Fire Volunteer Team on my phone, which specifically adds steps for dealing with pets trapped at fire scenes, precautions for rescuing diabetic patients with hypoglycemia, and even the priority measures for children with jelly stuck in their throats when going out with the baby are clearly written, making it more practical for specific groups of people. But a word of warning, this kind of private version must find content published by authors with a background in firefighting and emergency response. Don’t just search for unknown documents and save them. Last year, there was a guide for the infant Heimlich maneuver written by Ye Luzi’s self-media. The “head down, feet up, tap on the back” was written as “pick up and pat the back.” Some parents followed this and almost got the child’s foreign object stuck deeper, and finally had to be sent to the hospital to save it.

Last week at the convenience store downstairs, I actually encountered a customer who had jelly stuck in his throat. The boss had saved the latest version of the guide on the homepage of his mobile phone. At that time, he turned to the flowchart of a foreign object stuck in his throat, and he took a picture of the jelly block after looking at it for 30 seconds. Before, he might have just patted the back randomly, which would have delayed things. I also saved a little trick when I used it myself. I saved the frequently used pages on burns, electric shocks, gas leaks, and foreign objects stuck in the throat in separate quick albums on my mobile phone. When I encounter an emergency, I don’t have to click on a document with more than 100 pages to browse. I can just click on it and read it. The few seconds saved may change the outcome.

By the way, let me teach you a little way to tell whether it is the genuine 2024 version: there is a translucent blue "Emergency 2024" anti-counterfeiting watermark in the lower right corner of the cover of the official version. The revision instructions on the first page clearly indicate that the revision date is March 15, 2024. If the version you download does not have these two marks, it is most likely an old version or a pirated version.

There is currently an interesting controversy. One group of academics believes that the guidelines should be as comprehensive as possible and include all special scenarios, such as what fire extinguishers to use for different types of fires and how to administer drugs to people with different physical allergies.； The other group believes that people cannot read large paragraphs of text in an emergency situation, and the more concise it is, the more useful it is. This year’s official version is actually a middle value. All the core processing steps are made into text-less flow charts, and supplementary instructions for special situations are all placed in the appendix. You can just read the flow chart when you are panic. There is also content for those who want to study it carefully.

Anyway, this thing only takes over 100MB to store in your mobile phone, and it doesn’t take up much space. It’s much more reliable when you encounter real problems than searching for half-true and half-false folk remedies in your circle of friends. If you are too lazy to find a link, just search the official account of your local emergency management bureau. You can basically get the latest version by posting "Emergency Guide" in the background. Don't be too troublesome. If you are prepared, you will never suffer.