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”

• 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: 487
  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: 119
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• 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: 487
  The Coast Guard adopts new policies after scare on the Potomac. Dont expect the same from CNN.
  3 days ago

• The MythBusters look at destructive force of hurricanes

  
  Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog — Authority: 476
  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: 487
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• 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 ...
  5 days ago

• 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 ...
  6 days ago

• New maps show Capital’s biggest tsunami risks

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 133
  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 ...
  6 days 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 ...
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• Prudent People Plan for Personal Safety: The Novel H1N1 Version -- Get Vaccinated

  
  I Speak of Dreams — Authority: 121
  John Solomon keeps the blog In Case of Emergency, Read Blog (which I recommend to you if you are interested in emergency preparedness...which everyone should be).He reported on a FEMA regional meeting. One of the takeaway messages: “Preparedness is really about personal safety: People cannot relate to the term ...
  6 days ago

• CBS 60 Minutes looks at vulnerability of U.S. smart grid

  
  Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog — Authority: 476
  Last year, we told you about how vulnerable a smart grid could be to cyber-attacks . Last night on CBS, 60 Minutes ran a report by correspondent Steve Kroft called " Sabotaging the System ," which looked at the countrys vulnerability to cyber-attacks. "If I were an attacker and I wanted to do strategic damage to ...
  6 days ago

• Homeland Security: America in Action

  
  Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis — Authority: 487
  Two miles from home, on what had been a typical evening, I sat on a Metrobus last week and saw a bright orange flash cut through the dark night – 50 feet in front of us, a car erupted in flames. To my horror, someone was inside. When action was needed, four brave men ran to the burning car to answer their ...
  1 week ago

• FEMA Offers Ideas For Developing “Culture Of Preparedness”

  
  Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis — Authority: 487
  FEMA Regional Summit Offers Ideas For Developing “Culture Of Preparedness” Incl. Changing Term “Preparedness,” Establishing Disaster Survivors Advisory Group, Recruiting Oprah To The IssueI recently read an interesting report, “A Strategy for Developing ‘A Culture of Preparedness,’” which summarizes ...
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• Emergency Response and Preparedness Websites

  
  Bringing Health Information to the Community (BHIC) — Authority: 476
  NLM Radiation Event Medical Management System (REMM) wins Web Health Award The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Radiation Event Medical Management System (REMM ) http://www.remm.nlm.gov/ , a web site produced by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for ...
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• IPv6 and the End of the World

  
  Pete Silva — Authority: 107
  There’s always been a certain amount of conspiracy theories when security type events happen or instances where there is secrecy. There are those who don’t buy the ‘reported’ reason a security event (like a breach) occurred, those who claim to have inside information or just those who see a story and draw ...
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• Here We Go Again: House Committe Tries to Pull FEMA from DHS

  
  Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis — Authority: 487
  Panel Pushes For FEMA to Be Independent Agency: CQ Homeland SecurityMore than six years after Congress put the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Homeland Security Department, a House panel approved a bill to make it an independent agency again.The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee backed ...
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• Why Food Storage Series: Religious Reasons

  
  Food Storage Made Easy — Authority: 118
  As stated in the introduction post to our “WHY DO PEOPLE BUILD A FOOD STORAGE?” series, we have found there are 5 main reasons people store food: 1. Natural Disasters 2. Economic Crisis 3. Health Benefits 4. Everyday Emergency 5. Religious Reasons Today we will be talking about the fifth reason, ...
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• Need to know if a loved one at Ft Hood is safe?

  
  Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis — Authority: 487
  The Red Cross has a "Safe & Well" site. If you are at Ft Hood, this site allows you to let folks know you are safe. If you have a loved one at Ft Hood, you can search the site.
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• Need to know if a loved one at Ft Hood is safe?

  
  Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis — Authority: 487
  The Red Cross has a "Safe & Well" site. If you are at Ft Hood, this site allows you to let folks know you are safe. If you have a loved one at Ft Hood, you can search the site.
  1 week ago

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