Preparedness & Survival

Emergency preparedness helps individuals and families plan for storms, outages, disasters, supply shortages, evacuations, and unexpected crises.

Disaster preparedness focuses on readiness for hurricanes, wildfires, floods, earthquakes, winter storms, tornadoes, pandemics, and local emergencies.

Bug-out bags contain essential gear for evacuation, survival, mobility, shelter, water, food, fire, navigation, and first aid.

Get-home bags are compact emergency kits designed to help a person return home safely during a crisis.

INCH bags, or “I’m Never Coming Home” bags, are larger survival kits designed for extended displacement or long-term evacuation.

72-hour kits provide basic supplies for three days of emergency survival, including food, water, light, first aid, and communication.

Family preparedness includes emergency plans, supplies, communication, evacuation routes, medical needs, children’s supplies, pets, and household resilience.

Urban preparedness focuses on surviving emergencies in cities, apartments, suburbs, and dense environments.

Rural preparedness focuses on long distances, self-reliance, medical access, weather, fuel, food, water, and property security.

Shelter-in-place planning prepares households to remain safely at home during storms, chemical events, unrest, pandemics, or grid failures.

Evacuation planning includes routes, vehicles, fuel, documents, supplies, pets, destinations, and communication plans.

Wilderness survival teaches shelter, fire, water, food, navigation, signaling, first aid, and environmental awareness.

Bushcraft focuses on traditional outdoor skills such as firecraft, shelter building, carving, tracking, foraging, cordage, and tool use.

Primitive skills include ancient and low-tech methods for fire, shelter, food, tools, containers, hunting, trapping, and survival.

Fire making is a core survival skill used for warmth, cooking, water purification, signaling, morale, and protection.

Shelter building protects against cold, heat, wind, rain, snow, insects, and exposure in survival situations.

Navigation includes map reading, compass use, GPS, terrain association, celestial navigation, and route planning.

First aid covers immediate treatment for injuries, illness, bleeding, burns, fractures, shock, dehydration, and emergencies.

Trauma kits contain supplies for serious bleeding, wounds, airway issues, and emergency injury response.

Medical preparedness includes supplies, training, medications, sanitation, first aid, trauma care, and long-term health planning.

Pandemic preparedness includes sanitation, masks, isolation planning, food storage, medicine, hygiene, and household continuity.

Grid-down preparedness focuses on surviving without electricity, running water, internet, fuel access, refrigeration, or normal services.

EMP preparedness focuses on protecting electronics, communications, power systems, vehicles, and backup systems from electromagnetic disruption.

Radiation preparedness includes sheltering, monitoring, filtration, potassium iodide knowledge, fallout planning, and emergency supplies.

Civil unrest preparedness includes situational awareness, security, evacuation planning, communications, supplies, and risk reduction.

Economic preparedness focuses on food, water, skills, tools, savings, barter, debt reduction, and community resilience.

Survival training teaches practical emergency and wilderness skills through courses, schools, workshops, and hands-on instruction.

Tactical training includes defensive skills, situational awareness, firearms safety, movement, communication, and emergency response.

Firearms training teaches safe, legal, and responsible handling, storage, marksmanship, and defensive use.