Getting Ready for Calamity

Don’t be too sure about what will happen tomorrow. You should always be prepared with what might transpire in the coming days. Make sure you have one of the emergency preparedness kits available today. These will save you and your family members from any harm should anything unfavorable happen. These kits are complete with all [...]

Store Water for Emergency

With the recent water shortage, people made use of whatever water storage vessels that they could find. To stock up on rationed water, they came up with empty soda bottles, pails and water jugs. It would have been a blessing if they had water barrels. These are bigger vessels that are used to store water [...]

Modern Versions of the Hurricane Lantern

The hurricane lamp was an iconic piece of the early pioneers. It is a simple lantern that had an open flame from a candle or flammable liquid. A chimney was used to shield the flame from being blown out. Glass or perforated metal was often used for the chimney. The hurricane lantern was amply protected [...]

The Importance of Emergency Preparedness

We never know when an urgent situation will happen. Emergency preparedness should always be in everybody’s mind. Having an emergency plan in place can make the difference between life and death. It can reduce panic that is a dangerous side effect of fear. Having a plan and disseminating it to responsible members of the family [...]

Being Prepared in Times of Emergency

We have been writing about how to create a workable survival kit for camping, disasters and other untoward events. We keep forgetting to include a survival guide in the kits that we keep in our homes, office and car. A survival guide will tell us what to do in times of emergency. It should be [...]

What are Triage Kits

Triage is defined as a system of allocating scarce resources such as food and other emergency supplies to those who need it most. In this process, injured people are formed into groups based on their need. Triage is applied in hospital emergency rooms, on battlefields and at disaster sites. In a large disaster, organization is [...]