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.

• Kerlex, 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