Emergency Preparedness

Emergency preparedness is the pursuit of obtaining all of the necessary food, supplies, and skills to be ready for and survive any type of disaster or catastrophe either natural or man made.

An essential component of emergency preparedness is the careful and considerate approach towards building and maintaining an adequate food storage that fits the needs of the individual and/or household.

One of the most important supplies in emergency preparedness efforts is a 72 hour kit, which includes first aid items, food and water, emergency blankets, matches, and other tools that a person or persons will need for self reliance and to survive during the first three days after a disaster has taken place.

Another crucial component of emergency preparedness is having the necessary training and skill sets to be able to respond or react appropriately in any disaster survival scenario. Examples include earthquakes, floods, house fires, severe weather, and many other such unanticipated and untimely occurrences. One useful skill to have is knowing beforehand where utility shutoffs are located and how to turn them off.


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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Emergency Preparedness”

• Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-23

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 529
  India Places Nuclear Plants Under Alert : Homeland Security News http://bit.ly/1X0Lur #TSA To Inspect Jet Repair Shops Under New Proposal : Homeland Security News http://bit.ly/tDsDB #DHS Seeks Partnerships to Increase Information Sharing : Homeland Security News http://bit.ly/17DqNp #Fort Hood Gunman Committed ...
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• Preparing for The Bio-terrror Threat

  
  Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis — Authority: 511
  Preparing for The Bio-terrror Threat - National Terror AlertThe threat of a bio-terror attack on the U.S remains high and may be more likely than you think. That’s because another al-Qaida attack on the U.S. could be much worse than 9/11. The CIA figures it will more likely involve a biological weapon than a nuke, ...
  10 hours ago

• Trailnote- Free, Easy, Peace of Mind

  
  Get Off The Couch News — Authority: 125
  if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! from the Trailnote web site Trailnote is a free messaging service for all outdoor adventurers. The basic idea is to provide a way to send an emergency message to people of your choice. To use this service you simply create a message about your trip. Give a ...
  3 days ago

• Public Health News

  
  Bringing Health Information to the Community (BHIC) — Authority: 502
  Inventory of Program Evaluation Tools and Guidelines http://www.fhi.org/training/en/tools_guidelines/index.html Inventory of guidelines, frameworks, and manuals that provide users with instructions and step-by-step guidance to conduct program evaluations and inform program design and improvement. CDC Video ...
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• How to Create Emergency Kits & Plans for Natural Disasters

  
  Today from The OBE Community — Authority: 430
  So, yeah, Mother Nature has been having some very serious personal issues with us folks on Vancouver Island for the last week or so. It’s nerve wracking at these sort of times when you look... This is a summary of the daily post at Ourbigearth.com. Click on the headline to read the whole story.
  3 days ago

• Unplanned Emergency Drill

  
  Daring Young Mom — Authority: 121
  If it’s unplanned, some people might call it an “actual” emergency but no one died so I’d like to refer to it as a drill . Monday night we were staying up a little late to watch our new favorite show Castle and I told Dan I could smell something coming in the house from the garage. We went out to ...
  4 days ago

• Flu Resources

  
  Bringing Health Information to the Community (BHIC) — Authority: 502
  Google Maps flu shot locator http://tinyurl.com/ydbgfq2 The new Google tool offers a Flu Shot Locator map which will show you where you can get the seasonal (red) & H1N1 (blue) or both vaccines.  Just type in the address of interest & it’ll show you where you can find them. [DISASTR-OUTREACH-LIB] ...
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• From one of my lists - Its a repeat of history...

  
  Life on Sleepy Creek in Words and Images — Authority: 452
  My mom grew up in Nazi Germany. She came to this country after seeing her home country bombed and people removed from their home by force or by death. She saw neighbors shot down in the street because her mother tried to share a pot of boiled potatoes. She saw people shot because they didnt salute when Hitler came ...
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• Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-16

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 529
  RT @ntarc Suspicious White Powder Sent to 3 U.N. Missions : Homeland Security News http://bit.ly/2j8TIr #House Passes Terrorist-Proof Chemicals Legislation : Homeland Security News http://bit.ly/1OeWo8 #Homeland Security May Expand Preparedness In Virtual World : Homeland Security News http://bit.ly/DqniE #DHS Urged ...
  1 week ago

• Update to Wireless Information System

  
  Bringing Health Information to the Community (BHIC) — Authority: 502
  WISER is the the Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders . It was designed to assist first responders in hazardous material incidents. WISER provides a wide range of information on hazardous substances, including substance identification support, physical characteristics, human health information, and ...
  1 week ago

• A Lack of Imagination Led to a Lack of Preparation – A Report From Mumbai

  
  Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis — Authority: 511
  As the anniversary of another terrorist attack approaches, the questions remain: Are we safer than we were before the attacks, and are we doing the right things to prevent another attack? Those were the questions on the minds of participants this past week in Mumbai, India, at the second Security and Resiliency Summit ...
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• AEA - Evaluation of Second Life EP, Evaluation enhancement using web tools

  
  Eagle Dawg Blog — Authority: 416
  Enhancing Evaluation and Evaluation Practice Using Web 2.0 One of the sessions this morning from the American Evaluation Association conference is a veritable meta-hot topic for my National Network of Library of Medicine (NN/LM) and medical librarian colleagues: Using Adobe Connect for evaluation, and evaluating a ...
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• Lyster Health Clinic to Deploy AtHoc’s Network-Centric Mass Notification Supporting Clinic’s Emergency Preparedness Plan for H1N1 Pandemic and Other Threats — Press Release

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 440
  Lyster Health Clinic to Deploy AtHoc’s Network-Centric Mass Notification Supporting Clinic’s Emergency Preparedness Plan for H1N1 Pandemic and Other Threats AtHoc IWSAlerts to Enhance Force Protection and Provide Unified Emergency Notification Capability to Clinic Personnel SAN MATEO, Calif. (November 13, ...
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• The Coast Guard Adapts — but will CNN?

  
  Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis — Authority: 511
  The Coast Guard adopts new policies after scare on the Potomac. Dont expect the same from CNN.
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• The MythBusters look at destructive force of hurricanes

  
  Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog — Authority: 135
  You might not be able to fool Mother Nature, but based on an episode of MythBusters that ran last night on the Discovery Channel, it might be possible to at least work in conjunction with her. With Hurricane Ida in the news and preparing to make a mess of the weather on parts of the country even as it was ...
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• Security vs. Process: The Chemical and Water Security Act

  
  Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis — Authority: 511
  This week, Congressional Quarterly ran a chemical security-related article that highlighted how a process known as on-site generation can be used to augment a reliance on chlorine for water purification. As chemical security legislation (H.R. 2868) moves from the House to the Senate, its my hope that legislators will ...
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• Running out of gas.

  
  Poor Richard's Almanac — Authority: 428
  Silence Dogood here (again). When our friend Ben and I moved to our cottage home, Hawk’s Haven, located in the precise middle of nowhere, PA, we inherited a big old gas stove along with the house. To my ongoing amusement, it’s a Caloric stove. (No kidding.) I guess there was actually a time when “caloric” was ...
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• Homeland Security May Expand Preparedness In Virtual World

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 529
  Last month we featured an article that detailed Catastrophic Planning and Management Institute’s innovative disaster awareness project, “The Disaster Zone’. The Disaster Zone assists in planning and preparing for real disasters with virtual worlds via a Second Life simulation. Now it appears they won’t be ...
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• New maps show Capital’s biggest tsunami risks

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 136
  THE sea would lap round the Beehive, the airport would be submerged and the Cake Tin surrounded by water. These are some of the devastating effects Wellington would suffer in the kind of tsunami that hits here once every 500 years, according to new maps produced by the Greater Wellington Regional Council. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-09

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 529
  Soldier Arrested After C4 Military Explosives Found At Home : Homeland Security News http://bit.ly/21e1gd #Drive-by Shooting Apparently Targeted Seattle Police : Homeland Security News http://bit.ly/3hUtYQ #Seaports Still At Risk of Biological and Chemical Threats : Homeland Security News http://bit.ly/2el9eN #Report ...
  2 weeks ago

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