Everything in the library.

Rotation intervals for water, food, batteries, and pharmaceuticals. First-in-first-out organization for a small household cache.

What kinds of food belong in an emergency kit, what to avoid, and how to extend the basic 3-day pantry into a sheltering-in-place reserve.

The light, communications, sanitation, and tool items every household kit should contain.

Why one kit is not enough — what to keep at home, in your workplace, and in each vehicle so you have supplies wherever you happen to be.

How to draw, post, and practice escape routes so the household evacuates calmly when there is no time to think.

Two meeting locations every household should agree on, and how to pick them so they actually work in an emergency.

Why long-distance calls work when local ones don't, and how to set up an out-of-area relay so everyone in the household stays connected.

How to find and operate the main shutoffs for gas, water, and electricity — and the rule about turning gas back on.

How to plan for medications, mobility aids, dietary restrictions, pets, and important documents.

When to shelter rather than evacuate, and how to pick a room based on whether the threat is chemical, biological, or radiological.

How to seal a chosen shelter room with plastic and duct tape so the outside concentration takes much longer to reach you.

What to do indoors during shaking, and why moving makes most earthquake injuries worse.

What to do during an earthquake when you are not safely indoors, including the rules for surviving entrapment until rescuers find you.

The dangerous period after the main shaking ends — aftershocks, structural damage, gas leaks, and tsunamis on the coast.

The eleven-item core kit recommended for every household, plus the additional items worth adding once the basics are in place.

The FEMA-standard process for building a community emergency operations plan, from forming a team to maintaining the document over time.

How to characterize risk for planning purposes, and the common mistakes that undermine even well-funded preparedness programs.

Self-assessment questions for an older adult building a personal disaster plan, including extra considerations for disabilities, limited resources, and rural living.

Why a support network is the single highest-leverage move for an older adult preparing for disasters, and a checklist for engaging it well.

Most outages end in minutes. Plan for the ones that do not — the first decisions in the first hour shape how the rest goes.

More people die from generator carbon monoxide than from the outages the generators were running through. The 20-foot rule, and why every other shortcut kills.

What you can safely cook on when the stove is dead, ranked by location and risk. Most of "cooking" during an outage is heating cans — plan accordingly.

Tinder is what fails, not the spark. Build the three classes of fuel before you light anything, and lay them so the first match is the only one you need.

Most winter home-fire deaths trace to alternative heat sources. Layer first, consolidate space second, and only then choose a heater — and never the wrong one.

Wildfires move faster than memory. Ready-Set-Go decisions made calmly survive — and the go-bag is what makes "Go" take ninety seconds instead of an hour.

Pets left behind during disasters often do not survive — and pets planned for at the last minute slow the human evacuation. Plan them in early.

Children regress under stress. The plan that accounts for that — by age band, by routine, by honest age-appropriate communication — is the plan that works.

Poor hygiene becomes the second disaster within 72 hours. Hand discipline, toilet sanitation, and greywater management are the highest-leverage moves.

Austere-condition irrigation pressure, improvised sutures, when to close and when to leave open.

CAT-7, SOF-T, and improvised application with windlass geometry. Conversion protocols.

START and SALT algorithms, categorization, and the uncomfortable arithmetic of mass-casualty decision-making.

The fixed sequence — airway, breathing, bleeding, shock — and why doing them in order prevents missing fatal problems.

How to stop most bleeding with the cleanest cloth and your hand, and when to convert pressure into a fixed bandage.

When direct pressure is not enough, the fixed protocol for applying a tourniquet — including improvised ones that actually work.

The earliest stage of heat illness — painful but not dangerous — and how to resolve it without escalating.

The middle stage of heat illness, with distinctive cool clammy skin — and the cooling protocol that prevents progression to heatstroke.

A medical emergency identified by a single key sign. The aggressive cooling protocol that determines whether the casualty survives.

Recognizing skin freezing at two stages, and the rewarming rule that prevents you from making a recoverable injury permanent.

A non-freezing cold injury caused by prolonged wet exposure — what causes it, how to prevent it, and what to do once it appears.

Core body temperature dropping below the threshold the body needs to function — and the rewarming approach that won't kill the casualty.

Channel selection, band plans by region, simplex vs repeater trade-offs in terrain-blocked conditions.

Quarter-wave wire cuts by band, SWR estimation without a meter, counterpoise improvisation.

Knife-edge diffraction, terrain masking, and practical elevation gain for reliable contact across ridgelines.

How to receive emergency information when you do not have, or cannot rely on, a smartphone — Emergency Alert System, NOAA Weather Radio, and community channels.

Which radio services need a licence, what each is for, how a household agrees on a channel, and what the emergency numbers are for.

Rolling-boil hold times by altitude, pre-filtration for particulate water, and fuel-efficient reboil from tepid.

Precise hold times by elevation, fuel penalty, and decision points for chemical supplements.

Per-person baselines, climate and exertion multipliers, household planning math for short-duration events.

How much water to store per person, where to store it, and how often to rotate it.

Magnetic vs true north, local declination lookup, correction in the field for drift over years.

Plastic-and-tape sealing, ACH calculations for a room of known volume, fallout decay math.

Spurting bright-red blood, soaking through dressings in seconds, or rapid pooling. Death from blood loss happens in minutes.

Commercial CAT-7 or SOF-T Wide is the gold standard. Improvised tourniquets are last-resort and fail often.

Core temperature dropping below 95 °F (35 °C). Mild: shivering, clumsy. Moderate: slurred speech, confusion. Severe: shivering stops, casualty appears dead.

Tissue freezing — usually fingers, toes, ears, nose, cheeks. White or grey, hard, numb. Frostnip (skin only) is reversible; deep frostbite damages permanently.

Core temperature above 104 °F (40 °C) AND altered mental status. Sweating may have STOPPED. Skin can be hot-dry or hot-wet. Life-threatening within minutes.

Order of treatment when seconds matter. Massive hemorrhage kills fastest — address it before checking the airway, not after.

When casualties exceed resources, the math changes. Sort fast: who lives with help, who lives without help, who dies regardless. Move resources to the first group.

Effective irrigation prevents most field-wound infections. Closing a contaminated wound traps bacteria. Default to leaving open and bandaging.

Boiling kills every waterborne pathogen of human-health concern. Use when water source is suspect (surface, post-disaster municipal, unknown well).

Chemical (minutes), Biological (hours-days), Radiological (hours-weeks). Sheltering buys time to make better decisions; getting it right means an innermost-and-highest room for gas, lowest-and-most-shielded room for radiation.

Unresponsive and not breathing normally (or only gasping). The brain starts dying in 4–6 minutes — compressions buy time.

Clutching the throat, unable to speak, cough, or breathe. A fully blocked airway is fatal in minutes.

Fast swelling of lips/tongue/throat, hives, wheeze or trouble breathing, or collapse after an allergen. Epinephrine is the only first-line treatment.

Any burn larger than the casualty's palm, or any burn to the face, hands, feet, genitals, a joint, or the airway. Act in the first minutes.

Included in full, exactly as published, so you can check any guide against its source.

Included in full, exactly as published, so you can check any guide against its source.

Included in full, exactly as published, so you can check any guide against its source.

Included in full, exactly as published, so you can check any guide against its source.

Included in full, exactly as published, so you can check any guide against its source.