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Want to Stay Safe in a Disaster? These Are the Essential Emergency Supplies You Need.

We are at a climate-change tipping point that shows no signs of mitigating the causes. Where I live in Montana, wildfires are a growing threat, and we spend a good amount of our summer with an eye on the radars to monitor conditions and blazes. One of the ways people (myself included) who live in zones under threat of natural disasters can prepare is by having an emergency kit.

This doesn’t just mean a first-aid kit (though those are important to include) but a portable collection of items you can grab-and-go in the event of an outage or evacuation. This includes floods, fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, broken-down cars, and everything else that puts you in situations where you need extra supplies. To put it simply: It’s better to be prepared.

Continue reading to learn more, written by Kyle McPhee, Maggie Slepian.

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Kyle McPhee, Maggie Slepian

Maggie Slepian is a full-time freelance writer in the outdoor industry and has tested gear professionally for almost ten years—she is an avid backpacker, trail runner, bikepacker, and horseback rider and has thru-hiked thousands of miles on the Appalachian, Colorado, and Ouachita trails, along with backcountry travel on terrain including coastal trails, the desert, and high alpine peaks. Maggie has written for New York Magazine, Huffington Post, REI, and Outside. She is a columnist with Backpacker Magazine and is the co-founder of BackpackingRoutes.com. Contact her at MaggieSlepian.com.

Kyle McPhee, Director of Preparedness Programs for Hagerty Consulting, oversees the company’s Preparedness Division, which provides pre-disaster services such as planning, training, exercise, program management, and assessment. Under his leadership, Hagerty supports more than 100 preparedness clients nationwide–across government and private industry.

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