Tag: Emergency preparedness

Remember to change the batteries!

Every time the time changes, it’s time to change the batteries in your smoke alarms and check your carbon monoxide detectors! Just a friendly reminder to help keep you safe. If you have an emergency kit (and you really should!), now is the time to review that, too. Here is the link to the emergency …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://organizedjewishhome.com/2013/03/10/remember-to-change-the-batteries/

Reminder: Check your emergency preparations (and batteries!)

(For the US – other countries are later!) Every time the time changes, it’s time to change the batteries in your smoke alarms and check your carbon monoxide detectors! Just a friendly reminder to help keep you safe. If you have an emergency kit (and you really should!), now is the time to review that, …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://organizedjewishhome.com/2012/03/10/reminder-check-your-emergency-preparations-and-batteries/

Emergency preparedness summary

Please, God, we should never ever need any of this. But just in case, we have to do our part! An organized home should have precautions and preparations in place for a time of need: power outage or damage following a major hurricane or snowstorm, a flood, a stranded car, a fire… This section of …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://organizedjewishhome.com/2011/11/16/emergency-preparedness-summary/

Reminder: Update your emergency preparations!

This is a twice yearly reminder to all OJH readers: review and update your emergency preparations! Change the batteries in your smoke/fire alarms Check your carbon monoxide alarm Check the fire extinguishers in your home (or buy them if you don’t have them) Review your emergency plan and rehearse it with your kids Update your …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://organizedjewishhome.com/2011/11/06/reminder-update-your-emergency-preparations/

An emergency kit for your car

freefoto.com

Do you have an emergency kit for your car? What you need really depends on how you use your car. If you are living in an urban area, you would need different equipment than those who live in a rural area, especially in more extreme weather. If you regularly drive children, you have different needs …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://organizedjewishhome.com/2011/11/01/an-emergency-kit-for-your-car/