In the month of December we ran a community support program for our first time. For every 10 first aid blankets (FB1055) that our customers purchased, SOS Emergency Response Technologies donated 1 to a local Richmond Homeless Shelter.
In January, VP of Operations, Stacey Friedman along with her daughters, delivered 30 blankets to the Richmond House Men’s Shelter. Thank you for helping us keep people warm this winter and for supporting our community.
It is always imporant to be aware of your surroundings. Make a plan.
Once you know the disasters that can happen in your community (BC can have earthquakes, tsunamis, storms, and floods.) Be prepared
Secure your furniture, appliances and most importantly your water heater, to floors and walls.
Keep an 72 hour kit in your home and your car.
The phone lines at our office and our twitter feed are a buzz with inquiries regarding earthquake or emergency preparedness kits. Our staff has been answering questions and we are loving the clients that are stopping by to visit our Richmond showroom.
With several small quakes along the BC coastline the past while, preparing seems to be in the forefront of everyone’s minds these days.
On Boxing Day we were given a gentle reminder that we do live in an earthquake zone when some homes were shook by the 3.3 earthquake at 10:35pm, just 13km east of Sidney. Although there was no damage from this small shake 247 people did communicate to Natural Resources Canada acknowledging the shake.
Since December 1 nearly 70 earthquakes from 0.9 to 4.8 have been recorded along coastal BC.
Residents of BC have realized that an incident such as a gunshooting at Starlight Casino in New Westminister resulted in half a day of blocked traffic. All exits, bridges and roadways in the area were not available to the public for over 4 hours. People were stuck in their cars, vans and trucks and everyones day came to a complete stop.
Our office recieved several phone calls from people thanking us that they had purchased emergency survival kits for their car, as many of them used blankets for warmth, water for thirst and bit into the food bars. A few were surprised that the food bars really did taste pretty good.
They thought about how bad it would be in a natural disaster?
So, protect the ones you love this holiday season and buy a emergency survival kit for the car, home and workplace.
Water, of course, is fundamental to survival. But clean, pure water is often difficult to find amid natural disasters.
Why bother with bottled water that may grow bacteria, takes up valuable space and is heavy to carry? Why attempt to remember to throw it out yearly to ensure that it is healthy to consume?
SOS is proud to offer MAYDAY purified, sterile water in easy-to-handle, 4.2-ounce foil packets (8 liters per case). The packets are durable and can withstand a pressure of 600 PSI. The emergency drinking water comes with U.S. Coast Guard approval and a five-year shelf life.
The Red Cross recommends drinking 4.227 oz. of water per meal in an emergency situation. These water pouches make it easy to know exactly how much you are drinking versus drink bottles of water where you have to guess how much you are drinking.
Haida Gwaii earthquake. Hurricane Sandy.
It’s been a busy week of natural occurences in the world so this a great time to remind everyone that Preparedness is the Key to the Unexpected.
There are certain things which are fairly common in nature. And there are some steps which can help you prepare yourself against these hazardous rudiments of nature. Tragedy awareness is very much vital as well as essential in these situations. There are emergency preparedness kits and along with the emergency survival kits which will help you combat this type of conditions. If you have the tragedy awareness and preparedness then you will have a better chance to endure the catastrophe afterwards.
These kits have nearly improved the probabilities of survival which is from 80 up to 90 percentile. When natural and man-made crisis’s happen the real problem is that people tend to panic, they get nervous and therefore they don’t know what to do or not to do. Nonetheless if you are ready, prepared and equipped for this kind of situation and you are 100 percent sure then you have a good chance of enduring the calamities. Always put in mind the necessities that need to be prepared first, if possible make a check list to avoid panic buying and also it will keep you on tract on what to do next.
Aside from this, you must always keep some important things in your home such as first aid kit which will help you manage some minor cut, bruises or injuries. Put it in a place where you can easily locate or access it.