Paramedic Chip Myers teaches you some basic first aid that could come in handy during an emergency. Be sure to watch the related videos for more first aid tips and information.
This is a guide about first aid tips. Being able to provide first aid during an emergency is an important skill to have. Use these helpful tips and be ready to assist someone when they need it most.
Donations For Tornado Relief (Yazoo City, MS)
I work in Yazoo City, MS. After this week's weather, I thought I would offer some advice to anyone wanting to help tornado victims.
Are you prepared for an emergency? Be prepared for almost every emergency with lots of canned food items. You should also store water and a hand can opener with the food. Make sure you have meats that are canned as they give you energy.
Use Caution After a Natural Disaster
Who would have known that the tornado going over a house might cause the water to be pushed out of the toilet and onto the floor of the bathroom (our safe room) where we went to hide from the dangerous winds and pressure.
Use a Covered Bucket as a Camping Toilet
Toilet for camping or emergencies. If you have need of a toilet when there isn't one around or there is no running water, you can improvise one by using a covered plastic bucket and urinating into the bucket.
Use Frozen Bottle to Help Keep Cool
This is a health tip for dangerous hot weather.
Make Sure You Know New CPR Techniques
Please, please, please take a CPR course if it's available in your community. I took one last night and found out that the CPR technique has been improved recently. If you took the course a couple of years ago, you'll want to take a new one.
Flashlights that Don't Require Batteries
Keep a flashlight in your house that doesn't require batteries. You can buy flashlights that can be charged by winding them up or shaking them. If you run out of batteries, you won't be left in the dark if there is a power outage.
Natural Disasters and Your Pet
Natural Disasters and Your Pet. When natural disasters happen we naturally try to think of how we as a family are going to survive. We prepare and get ready but what will happen to our pets is another question.
Food for 2 Years for $5 a Week
Food storage for $5 a week. Set aside $5 a week to buy the specific items each week. You will have a kitty set aside that you put the $5 in and you can't touch it for any reason but to buy the food storage item for that week. . .
Try Text Messages In Emergencies
Try Text Messages In Emergencies. This is a tip that I learned last year during the hurricanes (Katrina and Rita). In most cases this was the only way to contact family members in Louisiana. . .
Smart Names for Contacts In Your Cell Phone
Smart Contacts In Your Cell Phone. If you are ever in an accident and/or unconscious, be sure to have your contacts in your cell phone listed as husband, wife, son, daughter, mom. . .
Be Careful When Putting Out a Fire
I went to a fire demo where flour was thrown on a fire. It burst into flame before ever contacting the fire. He said all powders do this except baking soda. He read the statistics on how reliable these fire alarms...
Storm Preparation for Emergency Power Outage
f I see a big storm coming in the spring or summer, when power is most likely to go out, I do these things...
Tips for organizing emergency numbers.
Tips for When You Are Being Held Up
I was held up at gunpoint last night as i was leaving my job at the doctors office. Yes it was very scary and no i am not hurt. I want to encourage everyone to listen to the police officers on the tv about guidelines for what do when this happens.
According to Doggy, there is a shortage of extra large clothing for the people hurt by Katrina.
What I Learned from Hurricane Katrina
Watching sad story after sad story taught me something about organizing my belongings and getting ready for a natural (or manmade disaster.)
As a mother who has done Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, I came along this neat idea to use film canisters. You can make an emergency kit for kids. Younger kids can have a Band-Aid or even several plus .50 cents for the emergency soda or popcorn.
Make Your Own Emergency Reflectors
Wrap reflector tape around a couple of empty coffee cans. You can keep them in the trunk of your car for emergencies. You can also fill them with possible needed items: a bottle of water, a space blanket, and band aids for medical emergencies and wire, laundry line, duct tape....
We had an earthquake here in the Pacific Northwest, right in the middle of getting the "Clipper" ready to go yesterday. We made it through without any damage or injury, but it was scary. Thanks to those of you that have written to check on us.
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