Cover the person's head with a hat or scarf to prevent further heat loss. My husband and I volunteer with the local fire department. Various people use a variety of names to describe the highly reflective, featherweight, paper-thin sheet including Mylar, emergency blanket, survival blanket and space or solar blanket. It works surprisingly well. Adam gets his hands on some tarp clips and tests if using them will prevent a cheap survival blanket tarp from ripping. A space blanket (also known as a Mylar blanket, emergency blanket, first aid blanket, safety blanket, thermal blanket, weather blanket, heat sheet, or shock blanket) is an especially low-weight, low-bulk blanket made of heat-reflective, thin, plastic sheeting. The emergency thermal blanket has many names. A thick woolen blanket will help defeat thermal imaging. Obviously this only works if you’re camping near your car, but the moral is to use whatever you’ve got. Tip: If you don’t have an emergency blanket, you can use the windshield protector from your car. It functions much the same as a solar oven or a reflector oven, changing the direction of travel of IR radiation. Emergency Wool Blanket (view on amzn) Emergency Blankets Survival Uses How to use emergency blankets (Put the shiny side upwards underneath you). An emergency blanket is completely waterproof, so if it starts hammering down with rain, or you get caught in a snow blizzard, you greatly lower your risk of getting cold and wet. Pro Tip: The shiny side of a space blanket is the side that reflects heat. In a survival situation use the Space or Emergency Blanket as a mirror. Once the blanket is wrapped around the person, they ‘stop, drop and roll’ to put the fire out. Wrap the blanket around the person, tucking it in on the sides and under the feet in order to keep body heat in and cold out. The most popular nickname is the space blanket because it was developed by NASA to protect astronauts from rough space environments and temperatures. A mylar rescue blanket is a cheap emergency heat reflective blanket to help protect from the sun, cold, wind, rain, or snow, and hopefully help lessen a bad situation. The blanket can be wrapped around the person tightly to deny the fire oxygen. Fish will go crazy over the shiny material! Heavy Blanket. Throw a blanket over yourself. My favorite way to use the blanket is as a lean-to or incorporated in the wall or roof of a shelter that uses fire for heating, see picture at right. By simply cutting the blanket into small pieces, you can attach them to your fishing line to use as lures. Emergency shelter-- In a pinch, you can use your space blanket as a tent, tarp or lean-to. Fire blankets are also often recommended for use by a trained user when a person’s clothing is on fire. Use a heavy blanket or wool blanket for a quick temporary method of IR concealment. SOLAR EMERGENCY BLANKETS We already know these blankets can be used for catching water, but they are also helpful in capturing food. Whatever you call them, and whatever brand you use, they have many things in common. Emergency thermal (space) blanket and how/when to use it Emergency thermal (space) blanket. They are used on the exterior surfaces of spacecraft for thermal control, as well as by people. It acts like an emergency blanket to reflect some heat back towards you. It can buy you time in a situation where you were completely caught off guard by unforeseen weather changes and can greatly help an injured person from loosing precious body heat while being tended to or awaiting rescue. I noticed that the medical team was using heat-reflective emergency blankets to keep victims warm.