Plan My Disaster

In today’s episode, we're rebroadcasting our essential fire planning episode with our guest Cole Wieland, a Captain with Las Vegas Fire and Rescue.  In our conversation about modern fires and what we need to know, Cole talks us through what's different about today’s fires, the science behind fires and flow path, the Close Your Door Campaign, along with loads of great home safety preparedness tips, inclusive of multi-family and single-family structures...always looking out for both our urban and suburban "non-preppers".  

For more information on the Close Your Door Campaign and to see the incredible images that we spoke about, visit www.closeyourdoor.org

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In today's quick episode we talk about the probability of a home fire due to cooking your amazing Thanksgiving feast.  

Have a quick listen to our stats from the USFA on Thanksgiving fires and check out our rebroadcast of Close Your Doors with Captian Cole Wieland with the Las Vegas Fire and Rescue to learn about fire safety and getting a plan in place.  

Help prevent Thanksgiving home fires non-preppers.  See you next time and Happy Thanksgiving, we are thankful for you our listeners.  

In today's episode, we have a roundtable discussion about why we're so hesitant to do food storage.  We also have a fantastic guest for our discussion, Deidre Walbeck, a Master Food Preserver, DIY food how-to gal, and a lifelong food storage planner.  

We laugh at our crazy food storage issues and focus on real steps for developing a realistic and well-rounded food storage system -  thanks to the help of our expert Melanie Jewkes from Utah State Extension Services, Food Preservation Team.

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In today's episode, we talk with our amazing food preservationist at Utah State University Extensions Services, Melanie Jewkes for Part 2 in our series, Mastering Food Storage - Non-Prepper style.  

Our conversation was full of great tips to get your food storage started.  Melanie breaks down food storage so it's easy to understand and takes away the stress around developing your own food storage system.  Below are several of the sites that we talked about in this episode for your reference...good luck Non-Preppers, and get going on your food storage.  

• Utah State University Food Preservation. You will find that great free manual Melanie talked about here, plus so much more:  https://extension.usu.edu/preserve-the-harvest/food-storage
• My Plate - The Dietary Guidelines for Americans: https://www.myplate.gov/
• Utah State University Gardening Yard and Garden: https://extension.usu.edu/yardandgarden/?utm_source=garden.usu.edu&utm_medium=unspecified%20print&utm_campaign=2019%20Gardening%20Campaign
• National Center for Food Preservation: https://nchfp.uga.edu/
  
  

We're back for our Fall/Winter Season, highlighting some amazing stats on what has been happening in the US and around the globe so far in 2021.  Remember compounding effects from disasters and everyday life warrant the basics in preparedness planning for everyone.  

Join us as we hope to inspire you, our Non-Prepper's to focus your baselines established and working toward what you need to be responsibly prepared and ready to help your family, friend, and community.

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We're back Non-Preppers!  
We're excited to be back after the long summer break and then some, but whew, we're back and excited to kick off the Fall/Winter 2021 season to get us back into our preparedness planning mode.  

If you're new to Plan My Disaster, we'd love to have you join us each week as we explore and establish our own preparedness practice, focused on personal safety, home preparedness, and disaster planning - for the Non-Prepper.

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In today's episode, we dive into our conversation with Robert Bratton and Tara Wahlberg from EP019 | On The Road Again, Summer Road Safety.  They provided us with critical information that everyone needs to know, whether you're on the road all summer, occasionally, or even using mass transit, the information can be applied across all travelers.  

Join us each week as we explore and establish our own preparedness practice, focused on personal safety, home preparedness, and disaster planning - for the Non-Prepper.

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In today's episode, we talk with our friend Robert Bratton from the Utah Department of Transportation and a new friend, Tara Wahlberg with the Utah Highway Patrol.  

Our goal is to get our Non-Prepper's prepared for summer - today we're getting the must-have reminders for safe travel and hauling on the roads this summer.   We had a great time talking with our amazing experts about several scenarios to help you with your summer plans and travels.

Join us each week as we explore and establish our own preparedness practice, focused on personal safety, home preparedness, and disaster planning - for the Non-Prepper.

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In today's episode, we dive into our discussion with Dan Cather, the Wildland Fire Coordinator with the Utah Fire and Rescue Academy, highlighting the many great tips and information we need to know about wildfires and breaking them into our 3 easy Non-Prepper steps.  

Remember everyone, we're heading quickly into Summer and we need to get ready - wildland fire knowledge is only one of many preparedness skills that we need to establish so we're ready to go.  

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In today's episode, we talk with Dan Cather, the Wildland Fire Coordinator at the Utah Fire and Rescue Academy.  Dan talks us through the basics of what we need to do to minimize wildland fires.  We also talk about creating defensive zones around our homes and what to do when evacuations are necessary.  

It's wildland fire season everyone and perfect timing to refresh our responsibilities when out in the wilderness or near our own homes.  Amazing and timely information.  

Join us each week as we explore and establish our own preparedness practice focused on personal safety, home preparedness, and disaster planning - for the Non-Prepper.

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