More About Emergency Survival Gears

By Lelia Hall


Life changes in the twinkle of an eye; it only takes an earth tremor to remind humanity how fragile life is and how unforgiving nature can be. With these factors in mind, humanity should always have a backup plan on and an emergency kit whereby a survival kit is a package of basic tools and supplies prepared in advance as an aid to survive in an emergency. Depending on the situation and the nature of the environment the emergency survival gears differ in both quantity and quality.

To begin with, one must find a kit that can accommodate the things they need most but is weighty enough to carry around and even run away with. Some of these situations can be so intense that one may not find the energy to carry around everything they need but only the necessities.

As part of the survival gear a knife is considered to be a very crucial tool in the trade this is because a knife serves as a multipurpose tool in these gears. The knife is considered to have several uses such as in cutting the fruits and meat hunted it can be used as a weapon too while it can also be used as a digging tool in case some digging is required too.

Heat is one of the most important elements in a human life but in the case of a crisis finding a source of heat can prove to be a challenge due to the situation; this makes the matchbox or a lighter a very essential gear in the survival kit. The reason being the matches will be used to light the fire that will provide the heat and fire that is used to both lights up the place at night, to cook the raw foods to scare off animals.

In many cases when a crisis occurs foods tend to be scarce and very rare to come by. This makes the inclusion of the foods to be something that cannot be overlooked in the emergency gears. In most cases dried foods like the nuts and cereals are parts of the foods that are considered in this cargo this is because the dried foods will tend to last for longer and are light as compared to other foods.

It has been proven scientifically that man cannot live without water but can go days on end without food this makes the water to be a very necessary tool in the emergency gear. This is because it is very vital for its intake so that man can survive.

In cases of emergency such as a volcanic eruption, houses are the last place where one wants to be found this is because the house will be the most unsafe place to sleep at that time and in such cases it calls for sleeping outside this requires either a tent or a sleeping bag.

In emergency situations accidents happen and illnesses occur and if one is not well prepared then they have to go through a rough time patch which at times tends to be fatal. To try and reduce the number of fatalities that occur due to emergencies one of the essential gears in the kit should include painkillers, antibiotics and also disinfectants.




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