Create an emergency pack or kit
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says when preparing for an emergency situation, start with the basics of survival: clean water, food, clean air and warmth.
The following lists will help you Be Prepared for times of emergency.
Family Emergency Kit
If you must evacuate your home with little notice …
- Three-day supply of water
- Nonperishable foods (including pet food) and a nonelectric can opener
- Eating utensils
- Special foods for any dietary restrictions, including baby foods
- Family first-aid kit
- Battery- or cranked-powered radio
- Flashlight
- Extra batteries (rotate these out regularly so they don’t go stale in your closet)
- Matches in waterproof container
- Blanket or sleeping bag for each family member
- Extra clothing
- Face masks for air filtering
- Soap, wipes, antibacterial gel
- Toilet paper
- Copies of important family documents in waterproof containers
- Signal whistle
- Local maps
- Cash
Major Disaster Preparedness Items
If you can safely stay in your home during an emergency …
- Fire extinguisher
- Tool kit (with ax, shovel, broom, screwdriver, pliers, hammer, coil of rope, coil of bailing wire, duct tape, razor blades, adjustable wrench for turning off gas or water)
- Chart showing location of shutoff valves in your home, including the main electrical switch
- Portable fire escape ladder for homes or buildings of more than one floor
- Portable butane or charcoal stove (to be used outdoors away from the garage)
- Gloves and cloths for cleaning up dangerous spills
- Covered containers for storing waste
- Garden hose kept near an outside faucet
Personal Emergency Service Pack
If you and your troop are called out to serve during an emergency …
- Poncho or raincoat with hood
- Change or underwear and socks
- Small bag with toiletries
- Sleeping bag and waterproof ground cloth
- Map of area where you’re going
- 50 feet of No. 5 sash cord
- Hand ax, folding saw or pocketknife
- Water treatment equipment
- Cook kit and canteen
- Flashlight
- Battery-powered radio
- Extra batteries
- Hard hat
- Personal first-aid kit
- Matches in waterproof container
- Emergency ration
- Pencil and small notebook
- Handkerchief
- Compass and map of the area (and GPS if you have one, with extra batteries)
- Watch
- Facial tissues
- Work gloves
- Face masks for air filtering
do we do all 3 lists?
Lowkey this is very useful for E Prep.
lowkey bro said maps twice
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cool this helped with my merit badge pre requisites
yes I agree. I really needed this for emergency preparedness.
Yes. You really need this to complete emergency prepardness.
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Thx Helped with EPrep. In reality, u only need one thing. CASH. U can get everything you need with it.
Thx this really helped a ton for e prep
This gave me a lot of resources for eprep.
Do you have to include ALL of these items in the kit for Eprep #8b?
Life-straw/Water purification tablets
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Neat, this helped with my Emer Prep a ton ‘,:>
this is exactly ppppeeeerrffeecctt for requirement 8b on e prep merit badge
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In the emergency preparation requirement it makes you get lots of stuff like a radio and meals for a family to survive any help to make the cost go down
You can preorder this survival kit from Survival Gizmo. It is an online store for these kinds of things. There are lots of collections you can check out now!.
Good list ,but the cost of all this stuff is huge! What do you do if you are not rich!?
This is a great list and working on E. Prep is why I looked this up but seems like a lot of expense on my mom to purchase all this stuff to finish my merit badge. Any ideas on a cheaper way to do this and it be acceptable for the merit badge counselor?
Right! I agree.
My merit badge counselor accepted a photo of my kit. I scraped together things in the kit that I had around the house and arranged them neatly. He said it worked fine.
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