Emergency Survival Kits –They can save your Life

If you are going out camping, or even if you’re just going for a drive, it’s vital that you have an emergency survival kit. Emergencies and disaster can strike out of nowhere and a survival kit can stand between you and death. Here are some essential components of a survival kit:

1) Signaling device – whether it’s a good old-fashioned flare gun or a more sophisticated GPS tracking system, your emergency survival kits should let other people know that you are in trouble and that you need help.

The signaling implement should be uncomplicated and should be easy to operate. It should also be highly effective –the signal should be received by people and immediately interpreted as a call for help.

2) Water source – you should also have a supply of water, or at least the means to get a clean supply. A person can only live for a few days without water, so you need to learn how to utilize every resource to get a drinkable supply of clean water.

There are certain tablets and implements that you can add to your emergency survival kit in order to help you sanitize any water supply and make it potable.

3) Energy source – you’ll need food in order to survive. Did you know that candy bars were first created to serve as part of a soldier’s emergency survival kit?

A bit of chocolate can give you a huge boost in energy –enough to last you for more than a day. If you happen to be cut off from any food source, a candy bar can go a long way. Remember that you’ll always need energy to survive.

4) First-aid kit – you might suffer some injuries or contract an illness during an emergency. In order to ensure your survival, make sure that you have a first-aid kit and medication.

5) Equipment – you’ll need a flashlight, enough batteries, rope, a knife to help you improvise different devices and other tools in order to cope with the emergency you are experiencing.

If you don’t have tools, remember to be resourceful and take whatever’s around you to use as tools. An emergency survival kit should allow you to account for any type of need.

Sleeping bags are one of those items you don’t think about unless you’re camping in the summer or sending your kids to camp. I’m suggesting each family member have one regardless of their regular activities, and if you live in the colder climates, consider ordering/buying a really extreme weather sleeping bag to get you through the coldest nights. You can grab a sleeping bag if you have to evacuate, you can bunk down in one if you have no power at home, and they are just overall practical items that you are better off having then not. Check out the U.S. Cavalry site for all kinds of survival gear, sleeping bags, and prepared meals to take camping and to have with you at home for the unexpected.