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Preparing a Disaster Supply Kit
What Should Your Kit Include?
Keep enough supplies in your home to meet your needs for at least three days. Assemble a disaster supplies kit with items you may need in an evacuation. Store these items in sturdy, easy-to-carry containers such as backpacks, duffle bags, or covered trash containers.
How comfortable do you want yourself and your family to be if First Responders can't get to you in an emergency? A three-day Emergency Supply Kit is a basic tool for providing peace of mind, comfort, and survival needs in the face of disaster.
- Three-day supply of non-perishable food.
- Three-day supply of water - one gallon of water per person, per day.
- Portable, battery-powered radio or television and extra batteries.
- Flashlight and extra batteries.
- First aid kit and manual.
- Sanitation and hygiene items (moist towelettes and toilet paper).
- Photocopies of credit and identification cards.
- Cash and coins.
- Special needs items, such as prescription medications, eye glasses, contact lens solutions, and hearing aid batteries.
- Items for infants, such as formula, diapers, bottles, and pacifiers.
- Other items to meet your unique family needs.
When preparing for a possible emergency situation, it's best to think first about the basics of survival: fresh water, food, clean air and warmth.
Since you do not know where you will be when an emergency occurs, prepare supplies for your:
