The 7 Best First Aid Kits For Any Situation DIY Kit Price varies An easy way to think about the necessary contents of a first-aid kit is to break it up into two categories: it should have bandages and it should have medicine. For a bare-bones kit, Wedmore recommends plenty of gauze, including at least one roll of Kerlix bandages and some non-adhesive gauze. Pocket-Size First Aid Coghlan's Pack I First Aid Kit | $4 Coghlan's Pack I kit contains all the materials needed to take care of minor skin wounds and is small enough to fit in a pocket, making it ideal for afternoon hikes and bike rides. Off-the-Shelf and Disaster-Ready Respond Systems' Four-Person Disaster Kit | $126 This disaster kit is built to sustain four people for three days; it includes 9600 calories' worth of food and 96 ounces of water. Backpacking Kit Adventure Medical Kits' Ultralight & Watertight .9 | $35 "If a kit is too big, you're going to be less inclined to take it with you," Hawke says. Automobile Kit Lifeline's Warrior Road Assistance Kit | $100 Boating First Aid
Survival Gear & Bug Out Bags A Bug out bag is basically a large survival kit that’s filled with everything you need to survive after a disaster. A Bug Out Bag allows you quickly grab what you need should you be forced to evacuate during a disaster. Most experts suggest that your BOB should contain enough supplies to last for at least seventy-two hours. Since most major disasters often disrupt services and normal life for longer than 72 hours, we think it is a good idea to have a Bag that will allow you survive for an indefinite period of time. Make sure your Bag is built to fit your needs; some people may need items that are not listed on this list. Below we discuss some of the items that you may want to include in your Bug Out Bags, as well as some items that will hold up when it really counts. This will depend on a number of factors, such as the area you live in (climate, elevation, etc….)
Get Home Bag Contents My Original Get Home Bag Contents A Get Home Bag is essentially the little brother to the Bug Out Bag. The Get Home Bag is lighter and smaller and built for quick movement to assist you in one purpose, getting home! The Get Home Bag is meant to be left in your primary every day use vehicle and it just sits and waits until needed in an emergency. In July 2011, I initially wrote an article about my Vehicle Every Day Carry items and included in that list was a Get Home Bag. All of the gear in my Get Home Bag fits nicely in a small backpack and it all weighs about 22 lbs. While most all of the items in a Get Home Bag should have multiple uses the extra cell phone battery, the cash, prepaid calling card and emergency credit card are in all likelihood the most useful in most real world emergencies (non-SHTF type scenarios). Check out this newer article with a couple of recent videos on the topic of Get Home Bags! Here are the videos that go with the my Updated Get Home Bag:
100 Items to Disappear First 100 Items to Disappear First 1. Generators (Good ones cost dearly. Gas storage, risky. Noisy...target of thieves; maintenance etc.) 2. Water Filters/Purifiers 3. Portable Toilets 4. From a Sarajevo War Survivor: Experiencing horrible things that can happen in a war - death of parents and friends, hunger and malnutrition, endless freezing cold, fear, sniper attacks. 1. 72 Hour Kit January 13, 2014, by Ken Jorgustin EVERYONE should keep a 72-hour emergency survival kit in their vehicle. No excuses. Why? Because if you unexpectedly have to evacuate or get away for any reason, or if you are unable to return home, your 72-hour emergency kit will provide you with the essentials that you might need to survive for up to 3 days. WHEN You Might Need A 72-hour Emergency Kit Hurricane warning and you must or should evacuate. WHAT Food Should I Store In My 72-hour Emergency Kit? There are many opinions and recommendations for what to keep in a 72-hour emergency kit. How much food? The short answer is, store approximately 6,000 calories (3-days) of food for each person who would most likely be traveling in the vehicle. Ideally you want foods that are calorie dense to save space, especially if you find yourself having to walk with a backpack. Choose a variety of foods that do not require cooking, or those already cooked (canned). Food ideas… OTHER Items For 72-hour Emergency Kit
Free info covering all aspects of survival. Disaster Supplies Kit Earthquakes, floods, and other disasters can seriously disrupt normal life. Services may not be available, transportation may be cut off and roads may be blocked. In some cases, you may be forced to evacuate. Be ready to respond to any situation by assembling and maintaining a Disaster Supplies Kit. WATER Plan on one gallon of water per person per day. Store water in plastic containers such as soft drink bottles. FOOD Store at least a three-day supply of no-perishable food. Food suggestions Ready-to-eat canned meats, fruits, and vegetables Canned juices, milk, soup (if powdered, store extra water) Staples-sugar, salt, pepper High energy foods-peanut butter, jelly, crackers, nuts, health food bars, trail mix. Have two first aid kits. Items to include Contact your local American Red Cross chapter to obtain a basic first aid textbook. CLOTHING & BEDDING Include at least one complete change of clothing and footwear per person. Elderly People Include favorite entertainment items.
Emergency Preparedness and You | Learn How to Shelter in Place Skip directly to search Skip directly to A to Z list Skip directly to navigation Skip directly to page options Skip directly to site content Emergency Preparedness & ResponseWhat You Can DoBe InformedLearn How to Shelter in Place Learn How to Shelter in Place Facebook Reccomend Twitter Tweet ShareCompartir "Shelter-in-place" means to take immediate shelter where you are—at home, work, school, or in between. How do I prepare? At home Choose a room in advance for your shelter. At work Help ensure that the emergency plan and checklist involves all employees. In general Learn CPR, first aid and the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED). How will I know when I need to "shelter-in-place"? Fire or police department warning procedures could include: Facilities that handle potentially dangerous materials, like nuclear power plants, are required to install sirens and other warning systems (flash warning lights) to cover a 10-mile area around the plant. File Formats Help:
37 Things You Should Stock but Probably Aren’t UPDATED: 67 Items! Every survivalist message board and prepper blog tells you to stock the same things; weapons, water, food basics, etc. So, I went looking for a list of things that you should be stocking, but probably aren’t. Everything on the list will make your life many times easier after the SHTF, especially in a Bugging-In scenario. 1. 38. What Else? This is a short list of things we are probably forgetting. For more Survival Gear ideas visit our survival store Forge Survival Supply. Photo by: Mag3737
Survival Gear Review Kits & Bags How to Put Together the Ultimate Survival Kit | Tactical Intelligence Would you be willing to stake your life on your survival kit? I would. There are so many debates when it comes to the perfect survival kit. In my opinion, the items you choose to be in a survival kit can be very different based on the situation you see yourself in (maritime vs. desert survival) as well as your level of skill. My entire kit is based off of three tiers — one that I carry with me, one that I keep in my car (and sometimes on me), and one that is in my home ready to go in a moments notice if I had to bug out. The Three-Tiered Survival Kit First Tier: This ‘kit’ includes those items that you have with you at all times. Folding Knife: If you’ve ever been in a survival situation (planned or not) you know how essential a knife is. While I would at the least recommend the Essential 3, there are a few other items you may want to consider carrying as part of your EDC (Every Day Carry) Gear or first Tier. Second Tier: Fixed Knife: In other words, non-folding. Third Tier: Conclusion
Homemade MREs For quite a while now, I've wanted to make up my own "MREs" for my Get Home Bag (GHB). I was recently out scouting some properties, and realized that my GHB only had some packs of tuna and some candy in them. I had broken my own Cardinal Rule - If you use it, replace it immediately. So, I went about making up some MRE packages. I assembled my "ingredients" based on "Best By" date, calories and protein content. The idea was to put long-life food together and vacuum seal it in a FoodSaver bag. For my first MRE, here's what I included - It includes: One individual serving of Beef-a-roni, 2 ounces (by weight - about 1/2 cup) of dry roasted peanuts, one pack of Land-o-Lakes French Vanilla cappuccio, one Promax energy bar, 4 pieces of Jolly Rancher hard candy, and utensiles (plastic spoon, knife and 2 napkins). Since the peanuts were loose, I wanted to separate them in the pouch. I then filled that with the peanuts and sealed it. Here are the stats - Here's the result - Times have changed!
How to eat wild stuff and not get poisoned (how-to) Let's play pretend for a moment. Are you with me? Let's pretend you can't go down to the supermarket for food to eat. In fact, let's pretend that there is not a supermarket for one hundred miles in any direction, and you don't have any food with you. Does this seem unlikely? What this guide is:This is a guide to wild things that are 100% safe to eat. What this guide is not:This is NOT a guide to figuring out if something may or may not be safe to eat. BerriesThis is very easy to make 100% foolproof. Unless you are completely sure, do not eat non-aggregate berries - berries that are shaped like blueberries or gooseberries. Green StuffMost "green stuff" is not outright toxic, but can definitely cause you some distress. Note: You should use caution when eating any plant, particularly plants found in the water - they can harbor any creepy crawly that may have been living in the water, including giardia cryptosporidium among others. CrittersNever eat wild critters raw!