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Advisories in descending order by date:
- 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