Home Emergency Kit

for 72 (or longer) hours

Immediately Available

• Battery powered radio
• Flashlight and extra batteries
• A Class ABC fire extinguisher is recommended for each home.
  
  
  

Emergency Supply List

• Instruction manuals on emergency preparedness
• Water storage
• Sleeping bags & blankets
  
  
  

Sanitation Kit

• Plastic bucket with tightly fitted lid
• Plastic bags and ties
• Toilet paper
• Disinfectant
• Improvised toilet seat
• Feminine hygiene needs
• Paper towels
• Soap
• Paper cups
• Paper plates
• Plastic utensils
• Can opener
• Utility knife
  
  
  

Stress Factors

Children

• Coloring book
• Crayons

Adults

• Books
• Needlework
  
  
  

Food

• Meats: tuna, sardines, spam, vienna sausages
• Fruit cocktail
• Peanut butter
• Powdered milk
• Infant care: canned milk & bottles
• Canned juices
• Dried fruit (caution: drink plenty of water): raisins, prunes, fruit leather
• Crackers (drink plenty of water)

Stress Foods

• Sugar cookies
• Sweetened cereals
• Hard candy
  
  
  

Standard First Aid Kit

• First aid manual
• Aromatic spirits of ammonia
• Water purification tablets
• Table salt
• Baking soda
• Eye drops
• Safety pins
• Matches
• Adhesive or paper tape
• Bandages
  • Telfa pads 4" x 4"
  • Triangle bandage
  • Telfa pads 37" x 37" x 52"
  • Roll of gauze
  • Coban elastic bandage
• Splints
  • Popsicle sticks
  • Shingles or thin board
  • 40 page newspaper
• Heavy string
• Individual's medication
  
  
  

Car

• Standard First Aid Kit
• Blanket
• Flashlight and Batteries
• Reflectors
• Change of clothes
• Extra shoes
• Food
• Water

This information is provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the American Red Cross