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- Emergency Kitchen - Advice and lists for preparing the home and family for emergencies. Written in the context of Y2K, but equally applicable for all emergency preparations. Includes a summertime test.
- Emergency Survival Guidebook - A 46-page PDF guidebook with emergency preparedness checklists and tips for surviving different types of emergencies.
- Disaster Preparation - Allstate Insurance disaster and catastrophe preparation and recovery. Safety tips, online claim reporting for damage from hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, wind, lightning, freeze, earthquakes, and wildfires.
- Emergency Preparedness Center - Free guidebook to download. Illustrated emergency preparedness step-by-step checklist of survival kits and first aid supplies needed for any disaster.
- Bekki's Food Storage 101 - Help in preparing your family for any emergency. How to start and organize a year's supply of food storage.
- Peninsulas Emergency Preparedness Committee - Helping family and neighborhoods prepare for earthquakes, volcanoes, fires and floods, in Gig Harbor, Key Peninsula, and Pierce County, WA. Water storage barrels for sale.
- Notepage, Inc. - Safety information including child safety, storm definitions and emergency preparation.
- Kind Planet - Emergency and disaster preparedness for those with large and small companion animals. Checklists to help organize.
- Ready.Gov - Emergency preparedness guidance from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, lists and explains specific threats and response. How to prepare, glossary, feedback form and links to related government and private organizations.
- NOAA Emergency Information - US Government tips and safety information.
Wikipedia Articles
- Comprehensive Emergency Management - Comprehensive Emergency Management, as defined in various laws throughout the United States, is the preparation for and the carrying out of all emergency functions, other than functions for which the military forces are primarily responsible, to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies and disasters, and to aid victims suffering from injury or damage, resulting from disasters caused by all ...
- Civil Defense State Agency of Puerto Rico - The Civil Defense State Agency of Puerto Rico —or Agencia Estatal de la Defensa Civil de Puerto Rico in Spanish— is an agency of the government of Puerto Rico that oversees all emergency activities that occur in Puerto Rico. Its mission its to coordinate all the resources of the government of Puerto Rico in order to administer all the phases of emergency management (mitigation, preparation, recovery, and response) in the case of a natural or technological disaster while preventing and minimizing all damage to life and property.
- Rapid sequence induction - Rapid sequence induction (RSI, also referred to as rapid sequence intubation when performed in an Emergency Department or pre-hospital setting) is an advanced medical protocol which permits the intubation of conscious patients who require advanced airway support. Having evolved from procedures used to "induce" a coma-state in preparation for surgery, RSI is now often used in emergency settings also.
- Amateur Radio Communications Team - The Amateur Radio Communications Team (ARCT) is a proposed system for classifying the capabilities of teams of volunteer amateur radio operators, in preparation for or in actual service in support of public service agencies (fire, police, other essential services) and non-governmental disaster relief organizations (also known as National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster) in times of disaster or other emergency.
- Cut-away - Cut-away is a skydiving term referring to disconnecting the main parachute from the harness-container in case of a malfunction in preparation for opening the reserve parachute. The 3-ring release system on parachutes allow a rapid cut-away in the event of an emergency.