Red Cross Asks: 'So What's in Your Kit?'; Survey Respondents CiteCaffeine, Tivo(r), Among Essential 'Extras' for Riding Out Disaster
U.S. Newswire, December, 2004
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- This time of the year is more likely to conjure thoughts of gift-wrapping than emergency preparedness kit packing. The season of togetherness, however, provides no better time for family, friends, neighbors and colleagues to gather, ask and answer the question: "What's in your emergency preparedness kit?" The American Red Cross hopes revelers will use the quirky question as an amusing way to not only fill awkward silence and cut insipid small talk, but to bring attention to the lifesaving issue of disaster preparedness.
Disasters don't break for the holiday season -- striking anywhere at anytime, especially with the blustery, snow-filled winter ahead. Emergency responders may not be able to reach impacted individuals immediately so the...
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