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Building a Home Emergency Kit
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Summary: A home emergency kit should hold one gallon of water for each person per day, non-perishable foods, a change of clothes, dry shoes, sunscreen and a first aid kit. Find out why a battery-powered flashlight and weather radio are necessary for a home emergency kit with help from the director of an emergency management department in this free video on home emergency kits.
Warren Lee is the director of the New Hanover County Emergency Management Department. The mission of the Department of Emergency Management is to protect the citizens of New Hanover...read more
"The disaster supply kit is important to have in that kit, we suggest you have a gallon of water per day per person. Some non perishable foods and if you choose to put can food in there, make sure you have a can opener as well. Any other snack type things that would help you be comfortable for a period of time away from home. Changes of clothes, make sure you have some dry shoes. Make sure you put some sunscreen in there you may need it if you are trapped outside for awhile. Any kind of first aid kit, a small first aid kit would be good to put in that disaster kit. Either a battery powered or a wind up flashlight and weather radio so that you can maintain contact with the outside world and know what, any changes in weather. It's also important to put in there any kind of prescription medicines that you might have if you require prescription medication. Make sure you have that. And then any kind of things that would be helpful in keeping children occupied if you have children. Some games and coloring books and things like that. Just basic things that would help you be comfortable if you got displaced from your home for a period of time. You should have the kit year round. It's not something you just plan for on the first day of hurricane season, realizing that you might be displaced from your home by, it could be a hazardous materials event. You might have a chlorine leak in your neighborhood and we might ask you to leave. So it depends on what the hazard is but some of them come with advance notice and others with no notice."
eHow Article: Building a Home Emergency Kit
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