Emergency Prep Training Courses

When the five year mark of 9-11 came around I decided to do a little more concerning my family's emergency preparedness.

I think the hardest part of food storage and 72-hour kits is keeping the food stuffs rotated, so I got out the 72 hour kits (mobility bags, evacuation kits, etc.) and took out the old soup and other dated food items. I replaced them with some freeze-dried light weight camping meals, but I need to make sure I have enough water packed for drinking as well as re-hydrating the food. I like the idea because the food is light weight and the "use by" date is several years from now.

The other commitment I made was to learn more about emergencies and what the government suggests doing. I went to the training center for FEMA and took another look at their free courses. There are many interesting courses and a list of them is available for download. Also all of the individual course study materials, enrollment procedures and final exams are available for download. I downloaded one course along with related video files that I can watch and study off-line at a later date.

FEMA also has a pretty comprehensive list of publications that are available free of charge to interested citizens. You may want to check out their site if you want to increase your emergency preparedness knowledge. There’s even a way to get college credit for many of the EMI courses.

If you are reading this, you are already in an exclusive group that less than five percent of your neighbors are in. If you continue studying and increase your knowledge concerning preparedness issues, then I venture to say that you are doing something that way less than 1 percent of the American people are doing. That’s a pretty small elite group of people!

Have a great day, Mike