Disaster Preparedness: 72-Hour Supply Kit
Personal Supplies
- Water - 1 gallon per person per day for at least 3 days (the minimum supply to stored).
- Food - enough to last a family at least 1 week
- Bleach - 1 gallon to purify domestic water supply
- Sanitation supplies, hygiene supplies
- Flashlights, portable radio and extra batteries
- Fire extinguisher
- First Aid Kit
- Prescription medicines, eyeglasses
- Heavy clothes, boots or shoes
- Small hand tools and shutoff wrench
- Shovel
- Rope
- Camp stove and extra fuel
- Tent, sleeping bag, lantern
- Cooking and eating utensils, can opener
- Paper plates and cups
- Box of heavy duty garbage bags
- Aluminum foil, plastic wrap, zip-lock bags
- Waterproof matches
- Pet provisions
- Money
- Latex gloves, duct tape, masking tape
- Prying tools, cutting tools, striking and battering tools, ladder
- Carpentry tools, shovel, rope
Perishable supplies should be replaced at least once a year.
The following list of supplies should be kept in a 72-hour home supply kit. Included in this kit should be any personal medications taken on a regular basis, a list of these prescriptions, a list of doctors, and an extra pair of glasses.
- Kerlix, Kling, or any other brand of roller bandages - 4 rolls
- 4 x 4-inch gauze pads - 10 to 20 pads
- Sanitary napkins for excessive bleeding - 2 to 4 pads
- 1 and 2 inch adhesive tape (changed every 6 months) - 1 of each