Planning

Course of Action (COA)

  When you get around to developing your Emergency Action Plan you will need to develop alternate courses of action (COA’s) for every part of your plan.   Cooking   Gathering water   Evacuating   Sheltering   First Aid  …
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Information Overload

I’m in Orlando, Florida this week. Am  attending a training seminar trying to learn how to present the Emergency Action Planning training material that I have developed in a way that will allow my Senior Drill Sergeant attitude to be…
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Monetary Instruments

Copyright: urric / 123RF Stock Photo Money, cash, currency, coin, bills, silver, gold, legal tender, wad, bucks, bread, you get the idea? Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the “Gotta have…
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Documentation

Copyright: funlovingvolvo / 123RF Stock Photo I’m sure you have heard the saying, “the jobs not over till the paperwork is done”. In a post disaster scenario it might be more like “the job doesn’t get started till the paperwork…
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It Wont Happen Here

thesurvivalplaceblog.com A deep seated hope that it won’t happen here; Interest in actually doing something to prepare for emergencies usually surges after a major disaster. The flooding in the mid-west, Hurricane Katrina, and 9/11 all saw resurgence in emergency preparedness….
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