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  How to prepare for emergencies (opens in a new tab)

  American Red Cross

  Hazard-by-hazard guidance with a lighter touch than the federal pages. The shelter-finding tools during an active event are the part worth knowing about in advance.

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  Red Cross training classes (opens in a new tab)

  American Red Cross

  First aid, CPR and AED certification near you. A weekend here beats any trauma kit you can buy, and the kit is far less useful without it.

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  American Heart Association CPR (opens in a new tab)

  American Heart Association

  CPR guidance and class finder, including hands-only CPR, which takes ninety seconds to learn and works. Start with the free video if the class cost is the blocker.

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  ARRL, the national association for amateur radio (opens in a new tab)

  ARRL

  Licensing information, band plans, technical references and a club finder. Much of the genuinely useful material is free without membership, including the band plan and the exam session search.

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  Amateur Radio Emergency Service (opens in a new tab)

  ARRL

  The organised volunteer side of emergency radio. Joining a local ARES group is how a licence turns into something you can actually use under pressure, because you practise on a schedule.

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  Firewise USA (opens in a new tab)

  NFPA

  Defensible space standards and the zone system around a structure. Zone zero, the first five feet, does more than anything else on the list and costs nothing but a Saturday.

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  Wilderness Medical Society (opens in a new tab)

  Wilderness Medical Society

  Published practice guidelines for care when definitive help is hours away. The guidelines are written for clinicians, which is exactly why they are worth citing over a blog kit list.

• Established nonprofitTrainingPaid

  NOLS Wilderness Medicine (opens in a new tab)

  NOLS

  Wilderness First Aid and Wilderness First Responder courses. The two-day WFA is the realistic option for most people and it changes how you pack a kit.

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  Team Rubicon (opens in a new tab)

  Team Rubicon

  Disaster response volunteering with real training attached. If you want practice rather than theory, deploying with an organised team is how you get it.

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  Provident Living food storage guidance (opens in a new tab)

  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

  Decades of practical long-term storage guidance, published openly and used well beyond the church. The three-month rotating supply model is the most workable starting point we have found.

• Established nonprofitToolFree

  Kiwix (opens in a new tab)

  Kiwix

  Reads offline copies of Wikipedia, Stack Exchange, medical references and more. The single highest-value piece of software in this whole library, and it runs on a phone.

• Established nonprofitDownloadFree

  Kiwix content library (opens in a new tab)

  Kiwix

  The actual downloads: full Wikipedia at around 100GB, a text-only version at a fraction of that, plus WikiMed, Wikivoyage and iFixit. Start with WikiMed if storage is tight.

• Established nonprofitDownloadFree

  Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab)

  Project Gutenberg

  Seventy thousand public domain books, downloadable in bulk. Worth having for morale as much as for reference, because a week without power is very long.

• Established nonprofitDownloadFree

  Internet Archive (opens in a new tab)

  Internet Archive

  Manuals, out-of-print technical books and government publications that have quietly vanished from their original sites. Search here first when a citation link dies.

• Established nonprofitDataFree

  OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)

  OpenStreetMap Foundation

  The map data behind most offline mapping apps. Free to download by region, and in rural areas it often has trails and tracks that commercial maps leave out.