72 Hour Kit

Home Emergency Survival Kit, suitable for Evacuation:

• Flashlight and extra batteries
• Battery-powered radio and extra batteries
• First-aid kit
• Candles and matches/lighter
• Extra car/house keys and cash (including coins/cards for public telephones)
• Important papers (identification for everyone, personal documents)
• Food and bottled water
• Clothing and footwear (one change of clothes per person)
• Blankets and sleeping bags (one blanket or sleeping bag per person)
• Toilet paper and other personal supplies
• Medication
• Backpack/duffel bag (or something else to carry the emergency survival kit, in case you have to evacuate)
• Whistle (in case you need to attract someone’s attention)
• Playing cards, games

Car Emergency Survival Kit:

• Shovel
• Sand, salt or kitty litter
• Traction mats
• Tow chain
• Compass
• Cloth rags or roll of paper towel
• Work gloves
• Warning light or road flares
• Extra clothing and footwear
• Emergency food pack
• Axe or hatchet
• Booster cables
• Ice scraper and brush
• Road maps
• Matches and a "survival" candle in a deep coffee can (to warm hands, heat a drink or use as an emergency light)
• Fire extinguisher
• Methyl Hydrate or Isopropyl Alcohol (for fuel line and windshield de-icing)
• Flashlight with extra batteries
• First-aid kit with seatbelt cutter
• Blanket (look for special "survival" blankets)

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