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Avoid epidemics like the plague.
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Main > Health > Environment > Dire situations > Epidemics
Do not become overly obsessed with hygiene. Regular exposure to a certain level of pathogens strengthens the immune system. Disregard this advice if you may be exposed to an epidemic.
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Main > Health > Environment > Dire situations
A cataclysmic situation is at root always your own fault. There are things you could have done to resolve them. Do not look at this as self-reproach. Look at this knowledge as a guide to doing things when you have time that improve your chances of avoiding dire situations. Consider aspects of your car that may cause safety issues. Consider security in your home. Spare keys, smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, adequately riveted security screens, bike and steering wheel locks, a plan for evacuating from a fire.
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Main > Health > Environment > Dire situations
In case of fire, grab a chair and thrown it through the glass panel of your windows. Not the security screen half. You will have ample room to get out then.
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Main > Health > Environment > Dire situations > Extreme weather > Bushfires
Bushfire readiness:
- Prepare a written plan well in advance, based on defending your shelter or evacuating to a safer place.
- Written plan includes:
1. Mitigation (3-4 months before fire season): tasks for reducing overall hazards, e.g. create fire management zone around buildings, reduce flammable vegetation, ensure buildings are ember proof, create emergency kit and fire-fighting equipment, and write a bushfire emergency plan.
2. Preparation (1-2 months before): Test fire-fighting equipment, replenish water stores, check emergency kit is ready, ensure neighbours and animals are considered in plans.
3. Response / Recovery (in bushfires): Check weather forecasts and emergency services updates. If evacuating, do so before the fire arrives and do not escape through fire.
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Main > Health > Environment > Dire situations > Extreme weather > Bushfires
Emergency kit: For surviving the day/s of fire, and up to four days afterwards.
- AM/FM radio with spare batteries.
- Waterproof torch and spare batteries.
- Phone and recharger and/or portable charger.
- Woollen blankets
- Protective clothing (long-sleeved shirt with collar and long pants, both of cotton drill or wool, minus hems. Wool socks. Closed shoes with rubber soles (no nails or studs). Broad-brimmed hat. Goggles. Strong gloves. Face mask. Do not wet clothing.)
- First aid kit and manual
- Emergency contact list (included with written bushfire plan)
Add before leaving:
- Money, EFTPOS cards
- Copies of important documents, e.g. title, birth certificate, passport, insurance policies
- Medications, sanitary supplies, toiletries
- Drinking water (3L / day / person)
- Non-perishable food
- Change of clothes
- Pet food, drinking water and bowls, leash
Suggestions for food stores:
- Powdered or UHT milk, tea, coffee
- Tins of baked beans, tuna, spaghetti, creamed rice, preserved fruit
- Precooked meal sachets
- Cereal
- Dried fruit and nut mixes
- Spoons, knives, forks, cups
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Main > Health > Environment > Dire situations > Extreme weather > Bushfires
Fire fighting equipment list:— A minimum of 10,000L water (e.g. rain tanks, dams).
— Do not rely on mains water, because town pressure can drop in emergencies
— Drinking water (3L / day / person)
— Mobile phone and charger / portable power supply
— Woollen blanket for each person
— Fire extinguishers
— First aid kit, including artificial tears
— AM/FM Radio with plenty of spare batteries
— Metal buckets
— Old-style cotton mops (very water absorbant)
— Protective clothing
— Torches and spare batteries
— Hoses at least 18mm diameter, at least 20 metres long, with metal fittings
— Knapsack sprayer, and other spray bottles
— Shovel
— Ladder
— Towels
— Face mask
— Medication, including water purifying tablets
— Gutter bungs
— Sunscreen
Tips for fighting a bushfire around a house:
— Leave a ladder inside with a torch in the ceiling to check for embers
— Leave a torch inside the house in case of power outages. Check batteries.
— Leave a ladder outside to check gutters are full of water and to extinguish roof fires.
— Ensure hoses reach all parts of the house.
— Fill the bathtub with water.
— Use metal buckets and mops to extinguish embers around the house.
— Use woollen blankets as a shield from radiant heat.
— Place wet towels along door gaps to prevent entrance of embers and smoke into house.
— Use shovels and rakes for breaking up piles of burning material and to extinguish it by covering with dirt.
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