It is important to have your family practice what to do during an emergency. Schools are required to have fire drills on a regular basis, and you should too. If you live in an earthquake prone area you should...
If you have not already prepared an emergency kit for your children, you may want to enlist their help as you do so. This will help your children be comfortable with what is inside their kits. It will also...
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One area that has not been covered in preparing your emergency kits is personal supplies. These items can help you to be more comfortable in a shelter or during an emergency. They can also help promote better hygiene and...
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It is important to remember to rotate the supplies in your emergency kit. You should also make sure that you have enough food for your family, since children tend to eat more the older they are. Here is a...
Once you have your basic emergency kit in hand you should begin to expand your supplies so that you have enough food and water on hand to last you two weeks. This is the next step in emergency preparedness....
It is important to remember to store your food storage safely. The way that you store your food can affect the shelf life of the food. It can also affect the safety of the food itself. Here are five...
One great holiday gift is to give the gift of food storage. If you know that a family is trying to build their food storage, this is a great gift that you can easily customize to the families needs....
If you are tired of having the same type of meals every night you can utilize your food storage to change things up. You should have a lot of food on hand, and you may want to try something...
People often wonder what you will do with all the food you have stored. People can't imagine what events will bring about the need to use food storage. Here are five common events where people could use food storage....
Rotating your food storage may be challenging to you, especially if you are not used to using the food you have on hand. It is important that you rotate the food so that it doesn't go to waste. It...
One great way to find new ways to utilize your food storage is to have a food storage potluck. This may be a little more difficult, if you do not have any friends that have and use food storage,...
How long could you last without a trip to the grocery store? What if you didn't count buying fresh milk? If there was a particular reason that you couldn't travel would you and your family be okay?...
Fire district teaches disaster prepNorth Lake Tahoe Bonanza, NV - 2 hours ago... Fire chief Mike Brown and captain Chris Magenheimer will cover topics including coping with a natural disaster, evacuation routes and building emergency kits. ......
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Keynote Address by Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff ...Student Operated Press, FL - 3 hours ago... by the fact that you're here today, I think all of us understand that whether we are dealing with an act of terror or...
Via Reuters: Bird flu focus shifts from Asia to Africa. Excerpt: Asia's relative success in fighting bird flu could see a shift in resources to Africa where the virus is spreading among some of the world's poorest countries, a...