Packing an Emergency “Go Bag” By Cynthia Brian If an emergency occurred while you were at home, work, or play, and you are forced to evacuate to another location, would you be prepared or panicked? This scenario could happen anywhere at any time. With preparation, you will be ready to go. A “Go Bag” is a bag filled with all the necessities you, your family, and your animals will need for one to three days. You will want to pack this emergency kit for every vehicle as well as

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https://www.lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue1414/Are-you-ready-to-evacuate.html Emergency Preparation and Creating a “Go Bag” for Disasters by Cynthia Brian In the last few weeks, we’ve experienced unprecedented weather conditions with temperatures in the three digits, ferocious winds, low humidity, thunderstorms, and lightning strikes resulting in more perilous and damaging wildfires. Frightening fire tornadoes, also called fire whirls or firenadoes”, blazed over thousands

by Cynthia Brian When it’s 2:15 in the morning, the power is out, the air smells of smoke, yet you are fast asleep, then you realize that firefighters are pounding on your door shouting, “Evacuate Now”, what do you do? I thought I was very prepared for an emergency with packed Go Bags in our vehicles and one in our hall closet that had a list in large letters of what to grab. But when my husband and I were given exactly ONE MINUTE to get out because the fire was only 100 feet

If you had one minute to evacuate your home before you would be in peril, do you know what to grab. Cynthia Brian had exactly that and although she thought she was prepared with filled emergency Go Bag, she learned some life-saving lessons in a recent fire. https://www.lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue1317/One-Minute-to-Evacuate-a-personal-perspective-from-the-Oct-10-fire.html Remodeling is stressful. When you choose a contractor, you are choosing someone who will be part of