Preparing for fires and emergencies

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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