What can you do to protect yourself from a fire at home, in hotels and rental accommodation and when travelling or holidaying?
At home have documents in a fireproof safe. Place documents in it! If you need documents with you, place copies in the safe so you have vital insurance policy numbers and phone numbers, house deeds showing ownership for making claims from insurance or government or gofundme for rebuilding.
The Japanese have had emergency bags by the door for years. My friend who went to live in Japan was warned to keep one by the front door.
Americans use the term 'bug out bag'.
Why might you need it?
1 riots
and
2 WW3
prepping with radiation suits and Geiger counters,
3 Power cuts
keep a spare gas can for the camping stove (others say keep all flammable items well away from the house, in a shed more than 30 feet away)
major power outages from storm damage can leave you without power for a week,
What You Can Do To Pepare
Especially in a vulnerable location every person in the house can have a small rucksack (backpack) with
a full change of clothes
Hooded souwester or folding raincoat and/or folding umbrella (for rain, sun, privacy as a toilet)
500ml bottled water, for drinking, another for washing
soap/shower gel/shampoo
pack of oats for breakfast - just add water later
hand towel,
a large tin mug,
face cloth,
packet of pocket tissues,
a toilet roll,
MRE style food packs for 48 hours or tinned sardines, beans,
frozen bread, bagels on strings around your neck,
chocolate bars in pocket (like hiders in the UK have Kendal mint cake, basically chocolate covered sugar) and
a small med kit, containing
sting relief,
bandage,
insect repellent,
plasters
burn relief
Plastic ice brick
Folding, lightweight insulated food container
water filter
instant coffee sachets
travel toothbrush and paste
soap/shampoo
wet wipes/kitchen roll
an apple and an orange and a banana or bunch of grapes to share
non flammable clothes
If you are a famula one driver/family/organizer distribute fireproof suits to homes from storage untis
if you are evacuated from your house with a few hundred others, finding shelter could be hard, take a tent.
Shelter may be provided. However, mobilising the Emergency Services to bring food and water can take time and you'll be glad to have your own supplies
In a tsunami you run uphill to escape rising seawater.
I was surprised to learn that in a fire you run downhill. Why/ Because heat rises.
Useful Websites
Check out fireproof suitcases and clothes and equipment, also escape ladders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_7010
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