Improv First Aid
Antacid Eat two teaspoons of menthol toothpaste mixed with cold water. Antibacterial Ointment Use honey to discourage infection and promote healing. (it's a natural antibacterial agent). Spread it over...
A ‘Culture of Disaster Preparedness’ Requires Careful Planning
By Maj. John A. Gagan Sunday, February 7, 2010 The writer, a native of Southern Pines, is now attending the Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kan. He wrote this as a class...
Creating Community in LA: Emergency Preparedness
"My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted." --Buckminster Fuller When I was 10, a woman from our neighborhood whom my parents had...
Emergency Plan
So, I was digging around on the ready.gov website and I came across a cool widget (Quick Share) that allows you to generate an email text containing emergency contact info for you to share with family,...
After Armageddon
What have past acts of destruction taught us about what will happen to mankind after the apocalypse? Is it inevitable that disaster will someday strike America on an unprecedented level? How has history...