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proud to offer investigators Disaster
Prep 101 by Paul Purcell that sets a new
standard in family emergency readiness; providing a truly
comprehensive approach to preparing your family to handle
major emergencies.
Written in a clear, concise, easy to understand, non-panic format, “Disaster
Prep 101” covers all the crucial detail necessary for you
and your family to not only survive, but to thrive, during and
after any natural disaster, terror attack, or family emergency.
This leads us to three questions:
1. What does this mean for me?
2. How is this package different from others?
3. What exactly does this "preparedness encyclopedia" contain?
1. What does this mean for me?
"Disaster Prep 101" will make all the difference in
the world with your family's ability to deal with any sort of
disaster, emergency, or terrorist attack. We give you the
missing detail that's never been applied to emergency management
until now, and we apply this level of information to the areas
you'd be most concerned with. We'll help you:
• Ready your family for any type of emergency or disaster.
• Deal with actual incidents by focusing on realistic preparations, reactions,
and solutions.
• Prepare for financial stability before, during, and after a disaster.
• Organize for either a rapid evacuation or a lengthy shelter-in-place.
• Set yourself up for success when recouping and rebuilding after a disaster.
2. How is this package different from others?
In several ways. First, this book is the result of direct research, testing,
and personal experience. Second, we included the research, testing, and
personal experience of others. Third, we focus on the solutions that will
help in any number of scenarios rather than being a "fear oriented" book
that focuses solely on the threat. Fourth, we made this as realistic as
possible for the "average" family. We understand efficiency,
economy, and simplicity, and will teach you according to these principles.
3. What exactly does this "preparedness encyclopedia" contain?
• Over 400 pages of original educational material.
• Over 80 pages of checklists, family data forms, and worksheets.
• Two links collections with over 5,000 links to outside educational sources,
and online courses.
• Two free resource CDs containing:
- The links collections in electronic format.
- All our forms and worksheets in softcopy format.
- Over 400 additional training manuals and educational publications.
BOOK PREVIEW
Disaster Prep 101 sets a new standard in preparedness
info and is the only terrorism and disaster package available
that will give you the realistic educational tools you need to
face the dangers, risks, threats, and challenges already thrust
on our world. Numerous books and websites have simplistic "emergency
supply" checklists
and other bits and pieces, but none are as comprehensive, focused, detailed,
or as training-oriented as they should be, and they can't teach you preparedness
any more than looking at pictures of road signs will teach you to drive. At best
they'll have you sitting there all by yourself with the wrong equipment wondering
what to do in the middle of an emergency that caught you completely by surprise,
and then leave you clueless as to what to do afterward.
Disaster Prep 101 picks up and sprints to the finish where other
works fall off. Where others are simplistic and vague, ours is
thorough and focuses on specifics. The difference is in the detail,
and we're going to give you the detail that makes all the difference.
However, as detailed as the book is, it’s written in a
simple, well-organized, easy to understand fashion. It
can almost be described as “Hints from Heloise meets Homeland
Security,” meaning you don’t have to read full chapters
or do extensive outside research to understand a topic. Our
goal is to educate everyone.
INTRODUCTION
Why This Book?
Chernobyl, Bhopal, Three Mile Island, Hurricane Andrew, California
earthquakes, Mississippi flooding, Texas tornadoes, western
wildfires, northern blizzards, southern drought, rolling blackouts,
Columbine, Mad Cow, West Nile, September 11th, Anthrax, DC
snipers, SARS, asteroids, and...”Lions and tigers and
bears?” It’s no fun picking up a new
book and becoming depressed after the first paragraph, is it?
These types of emergencies and disasters face us in the news
every day, and once in a while they face us in our own backyards. Nature
hits us from one direction and man from another, whether by intentional
terrorist attack, or through negligence or accident. Global
warming will ensure increased weather disasters, and the number
and severity of terrorist attacks and other manmade misfortunes
have increased dramatically over the years and will continue
to do so.
Much has been done over the past couple of decades to improve
the safety of the general public. Early warning systems
for weather have been greatly enhanced, technology has improved
the reactions and capabilities of our first responders, and government
has increased the funding for agencies involved in counter-terrorism,
and in both disaster management and post-disaster relief and
rebuilding.
However, there is still vast room for improvement in those areas,
and especially in the area of personal and family emergency preparedness. There
is a big difference between what is currently taught and what
can actually be done. The same holds true for contributions
citizens can make through organized volunteer groups. These
are the reasons this book is so large; we’ve got a lot
of catching up to do!
You’re probably asking, “Aren’t there already
a lot of books or lists that deal with emergency preparedness?” By
name, yes. Numerous books and websites have “emergency
supply” checklists and other bits and pieces, but none
are as comprehensive, focused, detailed, or as training oriented
as they should be. At best they’ll have you sitting
there all by yourself with the wrong equipment wondering what
to do in the middle of an emergency that caught you completely
by surprise, and then leave you clueless as to what to afterward. There’s
much more to readiness than “duct tape and plastic sheeting!”
The time has come for awareness and preparedness to become a
part of our daily life. Simple checklists and “how-to” pamphlets
won’t provide us the kind of education we need to improve
our individual abilities or make the subtle lifestyle alterations
necessary for adapting to the changes already thrust on our world.
This book is designed to help prepare you for the worst emergencies
you may encounter. We’re going to cover terrorist
attacks to tornadoes, and everything in between, and do everything
we can to guide you through all aspects of knowledge, training,
and equipment, to make sure you’ve achieved the highest
level of safety possible. We’ll remind you here that
we firmly believe in “planning without panic.” Though
the worst case scenario is a large-scale terrorist attack, the
truth of the matter is that you’re statistically more likely
to experience a natural disaster. The good news is that
if you’re fully prepared for one, you’re prepared
for the other.
We’ve also written this book to help our brave and dedicated
first responders. The more you know, and the more capable
you are of looking out for you and yours, the less of a burden
you’ll be to emergency workers, and the more you’ll
free them up to help others. The final section of the book
will outline ways you can be part of a volunteer group and the
many ways a group can further this goal.
Who is This Book For?
It’s for you, and it’s for everyone who realizes
that the ultimate responsibility for their own safety and protection
rests squarely on their own shoulders.
This book is for the individual all the way through the organized
group of volunteers. It’s for the young homemakers,
the elderly retired couple, the single parent, the wealthy professional,
the financially overextended family. It’s for the
members of our country’s armed forces and for all our civilian
first responders who have to make sure the family they leave
at home while they perform their duties is well protected. It’s
for everyone who wants to be far safer in an increasingly dangerous
world, and it’s for everyone who understands that security,
like charity, begins at home.
What it is and What it’s Not.
We’re giving you a detailed map, a guide, a directory,
or a training course if you will, to aid you in your own education
and preparation. We’ll help you along every step
of the way to determine what kinds of emergencies you may face,
how prepared you already are to meet their unique challenges,
and how to tailor your future preparations based on your particular
set of circumstances.
What we won’t do is sell you a book with a lot of fluff,
reprints of generic instruction, formatting with lots of blank
space, pages of unnecessary pictures and graphics, or other useless
information that does nothing but fill pages and make an otherwise
empty book look thick and impressive on a bookstore shelf. There
are too many of those out there now. We also won’t
give you only one set of emergency instructions or list of equipment
and tell you “one size fits all.” It doesn’t
work that way.
What we will do is help you find the specific kinds of information,
training, and equipment that will best suit your particular needs. We’ll
help you do it as economically as possible, and we’ll help
steer you away from things you really don’t need. Where
other works are vague, ours focuses on specifics. The difference
is in the detail, and we’re going to give you the detail
that makes all the difference.
Since we’ve written this book a little differently than
most, let’s look at how to get the most out of it.
How to Use This Book.
You’ll notice throughout the book there will be numerous
sources of background information, courses to take, books to
read, suggestions to consider, checklists to complete, and data
forms to fill out. In the “Appendix” we’ve
given you a blank three-month calendar to organize all your suggested
training and reading, completion of pertinent checklists, accomplishment
of suggested tasks, acquisition of necessary equipment, and the
attainment of all suggested goals. This book is set for
action. Your action!
Since what you have is a training manual, you should use it like
one. Treat this as if it were a second-hand book you got
for a course in school. Read it, reread it, study it, write
in it, check off the websites you’ve visited, dog-ear the
pages, use the checklists, fill in the blanks, highlight lines
and sections, fill out the forms, use the coupons, and make this
book yours!
Sectional Overview
Just as with any training manual or program, we’ve arranged
our sections in a logical progression to take you from a beginning
to a desirable goal. Please keep in mind that though you
feel one particular section may apply to you far more than another,
there is extremely useful information interlaced in each, so
be sure to read and study everything. Emergency situations
are always different, and each is fluid and dynamic with a life
of its own. You need as much training and practice as possible
so you can react quickly and properly as situations within a
disaster unfold.
The first section following this “Introduction” section,
is the “Foundation” which covers the “basic
training” you’ll need when facing an emergency. The “Foundation” section
sets the stage by helping you get the training and information
you may need, reviewing basic types of emergencies, and helping
you with the most important part of all, and that is developing
a “readiness” or “self-reliant” mindset.
Next we’ll provide you some specific “Reaction” material. Here
you’ll learn what to do in advance, and as a primary response,
to a variety of incidents and situations. These immediate
reactions are intended to save your life so you can proceed with
either an “Evacuation” or an “Isolation.”
“Evacuation” covers all the subtle details of planning,
procedure, and equipment to get you rapidly away from point A
and safely to a pre-planned point B, within a variety of scenarios. As
you’ll learn in this section, evacuation means worlds more
than “get out of the house.”
“Isolation” (as from a quarantine after a biological
attack) comes next. We’ll help you not only survive
an extended isolation, but add some level of comfort as well. Pay
attention to both the “Evacuation” and “Isolation” sections
as your response to an emergency may be a combination of the
two.
Following these is the “Cooperation” section. We’ve
called it that as it covers working with others. This is
the most important section of all, in our opinion, as it goes
into great detail on coordinating your efforts with others for
the purposes of mutual safety, or to help your fellow citizens. “Cooperation” covers
everything from organizing a simple neighborhood watch, to establishing
a networked civilian volunteer group liaisoned with your local
government entities to assist during or after an emergency.
Wrapping up the book is the “Appendix.” There
you’ll find, among other things, the data forms you’ll
be asked to fill out in the course of this book. The enclosed
CDs contain wordprocessor and/or spreadsheet files for the data
forms (as you may need several copies, or prefer to fill them
out on-screen) and an interactive collection of Internet links. The
CD also contains numerous useful instructional manuals!
SAMPLE FORMS
The "Appendix" of
our manual carries over 80 pages of various family data forms
and worksheets. Filling these out will put you miles ahead of
where you are now.
While forms are only a small part of the organizational
tools given to you in "Disaster Prep 101," we thought
it important to give you a preview of a couple of the more basic
forms we offer to help get you organized. These will show
you the type of simple yet comprehensive detail we'll provide.
Two or our forms are available below. Please feel
free to share these with friends and family.
The "Find Me" form
The "Pet ID" form
ABOUT THE CDs
Disaster Prep 101 is not just a printed book -
as an integral part of our complete package, our free companion
CD's multiply the information content of this preparedness
material by more than 400 times over!
On these two CDs you’ll
find:
• Electronic
softcopies of the more than 80 forms and worksheets in the “Appendix.” You'll
find them in unlocked wordprocessor files so you can print extra
copies as needed, fill them out on-screen if you'd like, or you
can save them on disk in addition to your hardcopy sets.
• Two
extensive interactive links collections of more than 5,000 emergency
info sites. We wanted to give you a vast source of outside
educational material, equipment providers, and a host of other
directly related sources. Your family’s education is
important to us.
• Over
70 US Military training manuals covering topics vital to your preparedness
efforts. These include everything from first aid and outdoor
survival, all the way through carpentry and plumbing.
• Over
350 other books, manuals, articles, and spreadsheets related to
disaster prep. As we stress throughout the book, we don’t
believe that one single source will have everything you need. Therefore,
we’re giving you as many outside publications as we can to
stock your preparedness library quickly and easily. We wanted
to provide the best price / value of any preparedness package.
Many companies sell lesser single CDs for more than twice
the price of our complete package. This is just another of the
many ways we've tried to provide you the best material available
anywhere with which you can prepare yourself against emergency
and disaster.
ABOUT THE
AUTHOR - Paul Purcell
Having grown up in a military family
that at one time lived overseas, Paul Purcell grew up with preparedness
being a generally accepted fact of life. He went through
two earthquakes in Turkey, a couple of hurricanes in Florida,
a severe ice storm in North Carolina, a HazMat incident in south
Georgia, and an F-4 tornado, and a blizzard in Atlanta, Georgia.
Currently, Paul is the co-owner, Vice President, and lead
security analyst for InfoQuest Investigators in Atlanta, Georgia.
Coming from a background in the hospitality industry,
Paul began his early investigative career in restaurant consulting
which included a strong focus on internal and external security,
and general risk management. He was approached in 1996 by an
Atlanta area investigative agency to come on board as their security
analyst. His early cases included an informal security analysis
of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta conducted for a member
of the Olympic Security Council.
In 1998, he, along with partners Frances Carter and Ben
Willis, opened InfoQuest Investigators, Inc., and has been performing
security analysis for corporate and industrial locations ever
since. As an investigator, Paul created "The Case File",
an in-the-field investigative case management system in use by
Private Investigators, Law Enforcement, and Attorney firms across
the country. He also served as the Legislative Committee chairman
in 2002, and state Secretary in 2003, for the Georgia Association
of Professional Private Investigators.
As a post-9/11 contribution, Paul voluntarily submitted
numerous vulnerability studies concerning the FAA, the CDC, the
2001 World Series Games, the 2002 Winter Olympics, and the 2002
Superbowl. Copies of these studies were shared with an agent
of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and two weeks later,
Paul was invited to join the DeKalb County Office of Homeland
Security as a volunteer civilian security analyst. His duties
included vulnerability studies of some of the county's sensitive
infrastructure locations, the contribution of terror attack scenarios,
and meeting attendance as a panel member at large.
During this same time period, he authored a regular civil-defense
and homeland security issues column entitled "Paul's Corner" which
appears on Col. David H. Hackworth's "Soldiers For The Truth" foundation
website (the column's archives are at http://www.sftt.org/paulscorner.html),
and he serves as an SFTT board member. This column caught the
attention of associates of Ross Perot's who invited Paul to attend
a small homeland defense / civilian volunteer planning meeting
in Baltimore, MD, in July, 2002. Paul's most recent project has
been to assist the director of the Savannah area Public Health
District in the formulation of emergency first responder protocols
in preparation for the 2004 G8 Summit taking place on Sea Island,
Georgia.
The culmination of these experiences led Paul to embark on his
personal quest to create a detailed training guide aimed at improving
the emergency preparedness and protection of the average civilian.
While good information was to be found through FEMA and the Red
Cross, Paul felt that a great deal of detail, desired by a very
intelligent general population, was missing and needed to be
added. Hence Disaster Prep 101.
Disaster Prep 101
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