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3-Other options
- Use the search bar — If you’re looking for something in particular. There’s a search bar at the top and another at the bottom of the sidebar.
- Finally, if you have a question, just send me an email! Maybe we need to write a new Advisory to come up with the answer you’re looking for!
Advisories are listed below in descending order by date. Check on the date the Advisory was written. Emergency planning basics seem to stay pretty much the same, but obviously, technology changes!
- Connect in an emergency with a Baofeng walkie-talkie!
- What to do after someone dies — A checklist for Emergency Plan Guide readers
- Lost – and Found, thanks to what3words
- “All I could think was, stop the bleeding!”
- How safe are your emergency flares?
- The 2024 Preparedness Pie
- Kitchen fire! Quick, put it out!
- Holiday Gift Cards – Scams Waiting to Happen!
- Ready for the November 18 government shutdown?
- “Who you gonna call?” (for disaster relief)
- School Preparedness for 2023 — Questions for Parents
- Tracking Devices for Emergency Communications
- Prepare Your Home for Earthquake – Second Edition!
- Immediately After the Earthquake
- Caregiving for Seniors
- Best Survival Flashlights
- Two-way radios: Walkie-talkie or CB?
- On oxygen and the power goes out!
- E-bike batteries – what you need to know
- The Joy of Giving — to Senior Citizens
- Top 10 List of Emergency Preparedness Items
- Would these “election observers” intimidate you?
- Cooper’s Colors
- Ready for an emergency rescue?
- Big Changes Ahead!
- Will insurance cover it? Wait til he sees the fine print. . .
- New CERT Graduates!
- Feeling threatened by violence?
- Prepare your kids for school-related emergencies
- School Preparedness Questions for Parents – 2022
- Overwhelmed by the news? Or just stressed?
- “The leading cause of death . . .”
- Do you have a solid Business Contingency Plan?
- Summer Home Security Quiz
- Safe at a Summer Event
- Plan NOW for Extreme Heat
- Prepare Your Community for Summer Power Outages
- As a woman in an emergency, are you in more danger than a man?
- Paradise was a Test for Emergency Responders. Many failed.
- Scams and fraud — How well are you protected?
- Should we prepare for a nuclear emergency?
- Preparedness for Older Adults
- Totally unexpected? Not!
- Fire! Fire! Quick, the extinguisher!
- Maybe you missed this? Tsunami warnings.
- Your Home Inventory — Missing in Action?
- Smoke Alarm Update – January, 2022
- End of Life Options
- Your Neighborhood Emergency Group – Planning Calendar Part 2
- Disasters are gonna happen! Planning Calendar for 2022, Part 1
- Ten Minutes Helps Prepare for a Winter Power Outage
- Holiday Decorations Safety
- Smash and Grab – Worse this year!
- Emergency Preparedness for Seniors — Two Questions for the Family
- Dead Bodies and Body Bags
- Building a Prepared Community
- Safety and Security on Campus
- Emergency Whistle Give-Away
- Time for an Emergency Radio Clean-up
- Security at the Front Door – What your Receptionist needs to know!
- Three Ways to Survive An Earthquake — Which two are wrong?
- Emergency Tools are Critical to Survival
- The Big One: It’s not if, but when . . . an earthquake will strike.
- Heat Illness — Will you be a victim?
- Buy Batteries On Sale
- Revive Our Group!
- School Preparedness Questions for Parents
- Emergency Kit for School
- The Best Generator for Emergencies
- Meeting Planner for Neighborhood Emergency Groups
- Get-Out-The-Door Bag
- Fire News
- What happened to Alice – Part Two
- What happened to Alice
- What’s your preparedness mindset?
- Respond to an Active Shooter
- Get something going with neighbors!
- Camp Stoves in a Disaster
- 3 Emergency Preparedness Checklists for Summer
- Walking the talk when it comes to emergency water supplies
- Overlooked Threats to the Neighborhood
- Mother’s Day 2021
- Apartment Safety and Security
- Update on Self-Defense Products
- No phone service!
- Managing Risk for Volunteers
- Who’s tracking your phone?
- Working with your neighbors – the Second Step in Preparedness
- Self-Defense for The Rest of Us
- Make Virtual Meetings More Fun — and More Effective
- “Just In Case . . .”
- Make your business stand out in your community!
- Covid-fatigue? Two Suggestions for Relief
- Drones in Emergency Situations
- Evacuation Plan Breakdown
- Personal Safety – Should You Consider a Stun Gun?
- What’s YOUR Cyber Security Threat Level?
- Business Owner – Are You Personally Liable?
- Emergency Preparedness Quiz for Experts
- The Magic Space Blanket — Quiz for Today
- Evacuate with your pet
- Mini-Series Uncovers New Needs
- A Fire Hydrant for Helicopters?
- California wildfire! Here’s what yesterday was like . . .
- Why do you promote preparedness?
- Video Conferencing Best Practices
- Underinflated tires – another COVID concern
- Steps we are taking to avoid getting infected by COVID-19
- National Household Survey — How do you measure up?
- Store Water for Emergencies — Revived
- Walkie-talkies for emergencies and much, much more!
- Heading back to work
- Dust Mask for Your Survival Kit
- Emergency Preparedness for Meeting Planners
- Evacuation Realities This Week
- Staying Active Despite COVID-19
- Heat Danger Threatening Us Here Over the Weekend
- Building a Neighborhood Preparedness Group via Zoom
- Rethink Your Go-Bag for Summer – and COVID-19
- Better Home Security
- Medical Device Back-up Power
- Solar For Back-Up Power
- I need more reviews. Can you help?
- 10 Solar Tools for Preppers
- Your new emergency plan — How is it shaping up?
- Plans for re-opening
- Drones for Emergency Response Teams
- Getting the Message Out to Neighbors While Shut In
- What will your re-opening look like?
- Time for a new start!
- Walkie-talkies leverage our Neighborhood Emergency Response Group
- What can I do to help others?
- Get out of a contract because of coronavirus
- Retirement community gets a little too quiet
- A New Sense of Urgency for Writers
- What’s coming next?
- Working Securely At Home
- Stay home – the latest response to coronavirus emergency
- Coronavirus Crisis Intensifies
- Q&A Mini-Series Will Jump Start Your Planning!
- Coronavirus memo for your neighbors
- Will your credit survive a disaster?
- When pills and prescriptions run out . . .
- Short Lists Make Preparing Easier
- Quarantined Because of Coronavirus
- B.Y.O.E. = A special community meeting on fire extinguishers
- Situational Awareness
- Disasters in the News
- Preparedness Takes a Village
- Survival Entertainment – for your Vacation!
- “Winter storm threatens millions of Americans.”
- Safe to drink in an emergency?
- Including Kids In Preparedness Planning
- Holiday Gift List for Mom
- Emergency Alerts and Communications
- Emergency Radio Operations
- Positive Progress on Preparedness
- Protect Yourself from Identity Theft
- Garlock – A Major Earthquake Fault Awakened
- Biggest Planned Power Outage in History — Now Underway
- Managing Medicines in an Emergency
- Workbooks Make It Easier to Get Prepared For Emergencies
- Time to Evacuate
- Top Survival Resources: Five Popular Stories and Subjects
- Survive a hurricane thanks to NIMS
- Preparedness Survey for Your Group or Town?
- Use sunlight for emergency power
- Summertime – Not the time to be lazy with security at work
- Do your kids know how to call 911?
- Emergency Planning Controversy
- Smoke from under the hood
- What do people want to read?
- Muscle Memory and Emergency Preparedness Training
- Reliable information
- Moving people toward preparedness
- Questions on preparedness to ask a care facility
- Continuing Saga of the Planned Power Outage
- Power outage scheduled for next week
- Power Outage On Its Way
- Why do I write?
- Drowning Incident – True Story from Yesterday
- Keep Safe at Summer Events
- Do you see threats everywhere?
- Earthquakes have positive result in our neighborhood!
- Can you read a map?
- What exactly is CERT?
- Paranoid or trusting in an emergency?
- Earthquakes in California
- Water this summer — too much or too little?
- Earthquakes continue in Southern California
- Take Care of Your Tools
- Dear New Summer Friends
- Too humid! Too wet! Too much mold and mildew!
- CERT Challenge: Overcoming Apathy and Procrastination
- Heat Wave!
- Does Business Hold the Key to Community-wide Preparedness?
- How to Inspire Readiness
- Personal Information Databases and Your Privacy
- Take an Insurance Inventory
- Spring Cleaning for Preppers
- Inventory Worksheet for a Resilient Community
- Power Outage in the Workplace
- Stuck In Your Car? A Kit To Get You Home
- Preparedness Story with a Twist
- Automatic Survival Habits
- Specialty First Aid Kit
- Seniors Struggle with Emergency Preparedness
- What To Do When You Discover a Gas Line Leak — Part Three of a Series
- Detecting a Gas Line Leak — Part Two of a Series
- Are you sitting on top of a leaking gas line? Part One of a Series
- Financing Neighborhood Emergency Equipment Purchases – Updated
- Everyday Household Supplies as Tools for Survival
- Wildfire Prevention Starts Now
- How to Improve Your Chances of Survival
- Covered for a natural disaster, or not?
- Help Your Neighborhood Prepare for Disaster
- Better Business Security Over the Holidays
- Are you vulnerable to landslides?
- How do YOU shop for the holidays?
- A Tsunami of Threats
- Prepare Your Pet for an Emergency
- How do you answer when . . .?
- Simple Survival Signals Can Help Speed a Needs Assessment
- Will Your Business Survive a Disaster? What About the Employees?
- Firsthand Account of CERT Response in Hurricane Florence
- Building a Neighborhood Emergency Preparedness Team
- Emergency Planning for Seniors
- I have a favor to ask
- Counting On Your Neighbors
- Where to put Mom? Emergency Preparedness in Care Facilities
- School Preparedness Questions for Kids
- “Wholistic” Approach to Emergency Preparedness
- Disaster Survival Series adds 4th title for Small Business
- Can you trust your fire extinguisher?
- Summer water dangers
- Your Survival Kit – Just “a Preparedness Placebo?”
- More hurricanes, and Harvey isn’t even over yet
- “More than we want to know”
- No Valid Excuse for Negligence
- Survival Kit Supplies
- Insurance for Volcanoes
- Password Day – A Reminder About Identity Theft
- CERT – The Good and the Bad
- Travel safely by RV
- Property Managers Responsibility for Emergency Preparedness
- Radio Communications in an Emergency
- April – Who’s the Fool?
- Urban Survival Tools
- Evacuation Fundamentals
- Hazard Signs – Which do you recognize?
- Survive An Airplane Disaster
- Active Shooter in the School
- Get Ready for the Next Power Outage
- Emergency Preparedness Vocabulary to Add to Your Skill Set
- Walkie-Talkies – A Few of My Favorite Things
- Lists for Active Preppers and Leaders
- Nuclear Bomb Threat – What to do
- Add a Tourniquet to your Survival Kit
- Cyber Threats Right Here At Home
- Intruder! Do we need a security system?
- Preparedness Checklist for 2018
- New Threats Emerging
- New Power Outage Affects Thousands
- Winter Storm Prep
- Expand your thinking with some NEW IDEAS
- Don’t drink that water!
- 5-point Safety Checkup for Daylight Savings Time Change
- Wildfires In Our Backyard!
- How prepared is your child?
- Emergency Communications Revisited
- Preliminary Findings
- More Lessons from Harvey
- Emergency Transportation Options
- Lessons from Harvey – The First Week
- A New Source of Fear
- Don’t Miss the Eclipse
- Safety Checklist for New Employees
- Cash Is King in an Emergency
- Catastrophic Events and Disasters Can Ruin Your Day — Updated 2017
- Reliable Sources for Disaster Preparedness
- Fire Danger in High-rise Buildings
- Hurricane Headscratchers – A Quiz for Preppers
- Summer Vacation Threats — Wild Animals
- May 31 is Dam Safety Awareness Day
- Are you sabotaging yourself?
- Words or action?
- Surveillance Technology
- One size does NOT fit all
- When to Activate Your Emergency Team
- Survey Tool for Your Group or Community
- How many terrorists are there, anyway?
- We can dream, can’t we?
- Confident About the Security of Your Passwords?
- New Year’s Resolutions and Emotional Intelligence
- How to Light a Flare
- Holiday Security Mistakes
- Battery Failure Ruins Flashlight
- Better Home and Office Security
- Communication Challenges in an Emergency
- Gift That Will Save a Life
- Secure Your Space
- What Will You Take When You Evacuate?
- Will Your Pet Survive an Emergency?
- Why are you a prepper?
- Coconut Oil for Your Survival Kit
- Stay or Go? Keeping Ahead of California Wildfires
- Flood Damage Not Covered by Insurance
- Summer Water Shortage
- Are Your Employee Communications a Disaster Waiting to Happen?
- Off to College? What’s in your survival kit?
- What threat do you face from a nuclear reactor emergency
- Survival Vocab Quiz
- Abandoned in a disaster?
- Then The Knot Slipped . . .
- Assessing Threats to Your Business
- Stay Safe in Hotels
- Lies Your Employer Is Telling You
- Guest Speaker Sparks New Interest
- IEDs — Improvised Explosive Devices — In Your Neighborhood
- Emergency Radio Update
- Plastic Bags – Use or Reuse for Emergencies
- Has the Zika Virus reached your neighborhood?
- Solar Security Lights — Do they work?
- Lies Your Mother Told You
- How Small Business Owners React to Questions about Emergency Preparedness
- 5 Ways to Create Your Own Home-Grown Disaster
- Here’s a Gift for You or a Friend
- Severe Weather Means Danger for Your Pet
- Smartest Emergency Purchase I’ve Made Lately
- Pedestrian Killed In Accident
- East Coast Handles Blizzard.
- Hang On To That Swiss Army Knife
- Power Outage At Work
- Countdown to Survival
- Pet Emergency Kit — Don’t Put It Off
- Last-Minute El Niño Checklist
- Should you include a Geiger Counter in your Survival Kit?
- First-time Driver Needs More Than Seat-time
- Security, Safety at Home with Exterior Lighting
- Get out now! Your Home Evacuation Plan
- Special Terrorism Report, Part Two, now available.
- More Live Shooter or Terrorist Attacks?
- Storing water in plastic bottles
- Power Outage — Another Chance to Practice
- Keeping Up With Breaking News
- Gated Community Keeps People Out
- What drives you to join CERT?
- Home Base – The Hub of Your Family Communications Plan
- Texting While Driving Can Kill You. Texting Can Also Save Your Life.
- Urban Survival Tools to Get a Fire Going!
- How dangerous are Lone Wolf terrorists?
- When Seconds Count — Emergency Preparedness Videos
- Are you within 10 miles of a nuclear power plant?
- Protecting Yourself From Home Invasion
- Pack Your Survival Kit for Evacuation
- Power out! Now what?
- Power Outage – Where are your emergency lights?
- Questions to Ask About Gas Line Safety
- Fire In Your Home!
- My New First Aid Kit
- Customize Your First Aid Kit
- Recognition and Positive Reinforcement for Your CERT Group
- Terror at the Mall
- Neighborhood CERT Supports Fire Department Training
- Hey CERT Trainers!
- Whoops, sorry about that!
- Portable Generator Safety Update!
- Neighborhood CERT — Don’t Overlook This Resource
- Small Business No Brainer?
- Three Days in Paris
- Safer at Home in an Emergency
- Planning for Emergencies – “Survey Says . . .”
- Survival Training for Ten Special Hazards
- Hand-Held Survival Tool
- Emergency Preparedness for People with Disabilities or Special Health Needs
- Welcome to the World of Drones
- Marketing Challenge for CERT
- Stocking Stuffers for the Whole Family
- Worried about power going out? Before you buy a generator . . .
- Whoops, did you miss it like I did?
- Value of Employees . . . Before and After a Disaster
- Active Shooter Event at Your Business
- Whew, I’m alive! Now what?!
- When Less is More
- Ultimate Emergency Communications Device
- Teacher, Worried About Your Kids’ Safety?
- Flaw in your emergency plan?
- The Secret to Surviving a Neighborhood Disaster
- Emergency Radios – Updated Reviews
- How secure is your job?
- Toilet News: The Three P’s of What to Flush
- Dear Parent
- Survival Kit Missing Item
- “Phone home!” VOIP for Business Continuity
- Bam! Power Outage in Southern California
- Get out of a sinking car!
- Emergency Water Supply – Your Swimming Pool!
- Taste Test for Emergency Food: Macaroni and Cheese
- Preppers See Disarray and Disaster
- Survival Kit Stories
- Can You Believe This?! Responses to Disaster Warnings
- Keeping Up, Getting Ahead with Blog Resources
- Commuter’s Go Bag — Will the road home get you there?
- We will rebuild! Is it grit or stupidity?
- Evacuate Immediately!
- Personal Emergency Communications – Staying In Touch After A Disaster
- Texting 911 in an Emergency
- Temporary Shelter – Who Needs It?
- Walkie-Talkies for Emergency Neighborhood Communications
- LifeStraw Personal Water Filter
- Emergency Training – How To Attract An Expert
- Message in a Bottle — For Your Neighbor
- Community Cache of Emergency Supplies
- Jargon — More Vocab from the World of Emergency Preparedness
- Five Tragedies in the Last Five Days
- How Are People With Special Needs Faring?
- Ouch! Three Mistakes in Atlanta
- Keeping CERT Team Interested!
- Carbon Monoxide Kills Family of Four
- Managing Sewage In A Major Disaster
- Organize Your Community To Respond to Emergencies
- Getting the Word Out!
- Nothing Like a Good Cup of Latte Following an Earthquake
- Happy Thanksgiving
- Fire in a High-Rise – How to Avoid, How to Survive
- “Says who?!” — Best Sources of Info for Emergency Planning
- Dear Friend – Disaster Recovery Message
- Emergency Communications for Neighborhood Groups
- Neighborhood Planning for Emergencies
- Turn Off The Gas!
- Legal problems surface as flood waters recede: Four questions to answer BEFORE disaster hits
- Temporarily Out Of Service
- “Water, water everywhere . . . nor any drop to drink”
- The Meaning of Green: Wisdom From The Parking Lot
- Neighborhood Preparedness Faire — Lessons Learned
- Ouch! What I found in my Survival Kit!
- Don’t Double Down on Disaster
- Lessons from the Village of Cold Spring – Seven Steps for Eastern Cities
- Survey Shows Half of American Families Without Survival Supplies
- How to Plan Great CERT Monthly Meetings
- Mothers, Are You Leaving Your Children Unprepared?
- Instantly Out Of Work — The Result of a Disaster
- Coming soon to a location near you!
- Emergency Action Plan in Your Workplace – What Protection Does It Really Provide?
- Collapsible Water Bottles: Indispensable to Survive a Disaster
- Get Your Community Involved In Disaster Preparedness
- CERT in Action!
- ShelterBox – Here At Home
- Trapped In The Car
- Fire Extinguisher Anyone?
- Tornado – An Ounce of Prevention
- Retrofit Your Home to Prevent Earthquake Damage
- Slick Road Driver Training
- Making Progress with Emergency Preparedness
- “Down Payment on Disaster”
- Beside My Bed
- “What do kids know?!”
- Apartment Survival
- Are you in a flood zone?
- Business Owner – Do you employ drivers?
- Nine Hazard Signs — A Quiz
- Severe Weather Alerts
- Protecting Yourself in an Emergency
- Testing Your Emergency Equipment
- Neighborhood CERT – How to Recruit
- Get an Emergency Kit!
- Family Communications Plan — An Overview
- Emergency Supplies List
- Simple Business Continuity Plan – Validation
- Simple Business Continuity Plan – Development
- Simple Business Continuity Plan – Preparation
- Emergency Preparedness Vocabulary for Business
- PR for Emergency Preparedness
- Terrorism and Situational Awareness
- Gas Line Leak!
- Can You Spot a Terrorist Before Something Goes Down?
- Logistics of Terrorism
- Gas Pipelines in Your Area
- Emergency Supply Kit — Portable Radio
- Improving Building Safety – Chimneys
- Improving Building Safety – Windows
- Improving Building Safety – Interior
- Emergency Preparedness Vocabulary
- Activism to Prevent a Disaster?
- CERT Doorhanger
- How To Hold A Great CERT Meeting
- Keeping Your Car’s Gas Tank Full
- Develop Leadership Strengths Through CERT
- Where to Get Free CERT Training
- Emergency Response Team for Business
- Building a CERT Group — Identifying Leaders
- “Just too busy right now…but of course I’ll help in an emergency.”
- Tennis Shoes and Boots on the Ground – People Make the Difference!
- The Fire Next Door!
- Random Acts of Violence — Really Random?
- OSHA Fact Sheets
- Workplace Preparedness Planning
- Your Team Will Save Your Life
- Triage — What the heck is it, anyway?
- Easy Water Storage Plan
- Heat Wave Kills
- Trapped alive — How to let the world know?
- Battery Power
- Defend Your Stash From Intruders
- Emergency Food and Water Supply – An Intro
- Portable Power: Generator or Inverter