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Show ; Emergency preparedness is everyone's survival business emergency preparedness for the Pleasant Grove Fifth Ward. In it she lists some of the items you might want to put into your 72-hour 72-hour kit. Karen suggests that you use things you have around your home. There are not a lot of items which ,. will need to be specially purchased. Some of the things she really encourages people to have in their kit are aluminum foil, flashlight and batteries, pocket knife, zip lock baggies of various sizes, lots of large garbage bags, cooking pan with lid, plastic container or bucket and potty liners, newspapers, fish , gee Emergency Page 3 ( " Editors note: This is the third and final article in a se-riei se-riei dealing with emergency I preparedness. !8y MARCELLA WALKER Karen Church likes to have a survival dinner once in a while. '. ThisPleasantGrovemotherand komemaker Is just as apt to serve ler family cattail soup, beaver teak, and com cob jelly as not, at -J me of these dinners. Infact, at one of her dinners they lad guests from Florida. The jrintedmenu, which Karen always s at the survival dinner, listed - Je cattail soup. They apparently not have cattails, the plant J "Inch grows in marshy ground round here, in Florida. Thelady guest turned pale when cattail soup was served. She H tad a completely different idea of W the cattail soup had in it. 3 important thing from this jy is that Karen is giving her ly the opportunity to eat some 'Wthings they might have to eat yhadtoliveoffthelandasthe ""Wan emergency of some sort. Right now, she is planning another an-other survival dinner and she is looking for some rattlesnake to serve but she can't find any. Karen has tried to get her family prepared for an emergency. She has a good 72-hour kit, she has food storage, and she has taken a survival sur-vival class at BYU in which she learned even more than she had learned before. She stresses the fact that air and water and shelter are the three priority items in emergency preparedness. pre-paredness. "Food comes way down the list of priorities," she said. "We can only live three minutes without air, we can only live three days without water, but we can live 30 days without food," she noted. Since we can live a long time without food, it is not a high priority prior-ity item. Air and water are high priority and so is shelter if the weather is a factor. Karen's family uses a lot of milk so she fills the gallon milk containers contain-ers with water. She keeps them rotated so that they do not deteriorate deterio-rate nor take on so much plastic taste. She has tasted the water after a couple of years and it has not been bad. In addition, she urges everyone to become acquainted with the places water can be found. She said that the home water heater and toilet tank are good sources of water ifyou are at home. . Away from home, look for places where trees grow, where cattails are growing, game trails lead to water often, etc. Karen told about a family she knows who eat from their 72- hour kit during the LDS General Conference Confer-ence twice a year. This way the children get used to eating what is in there, the family stays acquainted ac-quainted with their kit, and they can rotate and replace frequently those things that need to be changed. Karen also stressed that mental stability during an emergency is one of the most important things to remember. If a family is prepared, then they can be relaxed and they can help others relax, which is essential to survival. In preparing a 72-hour kit, just as in home food storage, use common com-mon sense. . This message was not only stressed by Karen but also by Sheri Atwood, the Emergency Preparedness Prepared-ness Director in Pleasant Grove. Sheri said that she is often asked to speak to Relief Society groups and others, and she always tells them to make a plan. She urges people to write everything every-thing down. Do not try to remember. remem-ber. It is a well known fact that in an emergency we often cannot even remember our addresss, let alone other details. She advises everyone that ifyou have your own 72-hour kit, you can have everything in it that you personally per-sonally think you will need. It will contain your own personal per-sonal things and will be familiar to you. When emergency rations are brought into a disaster and doled out, you will not get the things you want most, perhaps. So be sure your 72-hour kit has what you and your family will like to use. Karen has prepared a booklet on ! ' . i : I i s ' ! I , ' t ' ; " 1 ' xs. s v'. . f 1 . ! ' ' 7 x I1";! : - v i 1 -i ' ' ..- 1 feren Church explains some of the items to put into a 72-hour kit. . Emergency Preparedness gifts and even make puzzles from the pictures in it. In your food storage, Karen suggests four basic things, grains, fats, fruits and vegetables, and milk. She said it is important to make sure that food which you have stored is food that your family will eat. Studies show that people would rather starve than eat that which they do not like. In Viet Nam, America sent tons of food to the starving refugees. It was the kind of food we eat in America. The children there were used to eatingrice. They did not eat our wheat and other commodities. They died instead. In our food storage there should be a hand grinder for wheat in case there is no electricity available. Karen said there are lots of good things which can be made from whole or coarsely ground grain. She said that popped wheat, wholewheat whole-wheat pancakes, wheat soaked and cooked and eaten like rice or with rice is good. She has recipes for cracked wheat sausage, yogurt made from powdered milk, etc. She also noted that dry foods, such as wheat, beans and dried peas can be sprouted to provide more nutrients. - - A few other things families should work on are knowing where the emergency broadcast numbers are on the radio. They can be marked with red fingernail polish for little children; knowing the difference dif-ference between a flash flood watch (possibility of a flood emergency) and a flash flood warning (is oc-curing oc-curing or is imminent and every precaution should be taken); have designated areas for family members mem-bers to meet in an emergency; take children to these locations as a drill so that they know where they are; know how to report emergencies to the police; and teach children to stay calm. Teach family members that in an earthquake they should stand in a doorway or get under a very heavy object such as a sturdy table or desk; do not go out until the quake is over; take the emergency kit; turn off gas and electricity; stay clear of anything which could fall; remember aftershocks are often as bad or worse than the initial shock. For further information you can write to the U. S. Dept of Interior office of Engineering and Geology, Deer Creek Facility, Rm B-134, 345 Middlefield Rd. MS98, MenloPark, Ca. 94025; or Comprehensive Emergency Management, 1543 Sunnyside Ave., Salt Lake City, Ut. 84108. Neighborhoods can also organize organ-ize for emergencies. In this case, be sure you know who has medical training and can give CPR,inocula- , tions, and so forth. ; Those who are well prepared need not fear an emergency. Many times the preparations we make will make it more comfortable during a power failure, truck strike, unemployment, etc., too. All of the experts tell us to be prepared. Don't panic, but begin today to make what preparations you can. As Sheri says, use common sense. : Continued from front page ;Wk and line, sewing packet con-; con-; ,jjnjng scissors, waterproof ! matches or butane lighter, toilet ; ?iper, sanitary supplies, candles ; ad holder, soap, washcloths and ' awels, change of clothes for every- aein family, toothbrushes, sham-w,comb sham-w,comb and brush, paper plates laicups, silverware, baking soda, . jod for three days, three gallons of later per person and water purifi-ution purifi-ution tablets, survival handbook, . papers and baby food if necessary, i :ock or watch, mirror, games, , pencils, crayons and paper, set of a and house keys, cash, tools, insect repellent, and special medi-,' medi-,' ations for family members, and a sod first aid kit. Sleeping bags or ikkets are also essential, i She also suggests that you in-' in-' Me hard candy because it is a sirce of quick energy and it also r :akes the children happy. Karen is highly in favor of back-" back-" aks for each member of the fam-iy.She fam-iy.She has six children. She also believes that each per-' per-' n in the family should have an iisignment that they are respon-. respon-. able for, in addition to their back ' pack. This could be a battery pow-iied pow-iied radio, valuable papers, photo, pho-to, etc. Containers for the 72-hour kits an be made from a wide- variety of tings, in addition to the back-pscks. back-pscks. Suitcases, round plastic Mtainers with tight lids, trash tarell with tight lid, ice chest, sturdy box with plastic cover, etc. Booklets with suggestions and directions for emergencies could ilso be included in your kit. Karen uses empty vitamin pill Wes for salt, soda, matches, and Aer items. They are small and wterproof. Plastic ground cloths or large iroge bags are nice for several purposes. They can be placed under !W sleeping bags, blankets, etc., y can be used as ponchos, they keep things dry, etc. Newspapers fall into the same gory. They can be used for things. You can make logs to from them, light fires with , use as insulation under your whing or to protect foods, wrap Wage, writeon it, make patterns it, control weeds with it, wrap |