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• • During Hurricane Katrina 1,170 persons lost their lives of which 33% or 386 persons died from drowning.

Benefits of having Binoculars in your Emergency Essentials GO-KIT:

Scouting

• See blocked roadways and save time by looking for other available access rather than going to the area only to go back after reaching the destination.
• Monitoring surrounding areas and paths from a safe distance.
• Spot any obstacles, wild animals, hostile individuals, and other threats.
• Quickly assess a situation, avoid possible problems, and help you plan your subsequent actions for your safety.
• Keeping track of your party or help in searching for missing or injured people.

Starting a Fire

• In a survival situation, binoculars can also be used in starting a fire.
• Binoculars contain concave and convex lenses for the technology to work.
• These lenses may utilize the way how a magnifying glass can start a fire.
• Keep in mind that it entails disassembling the optics. 

Hunting

• You can use your binoculars for spotting small edible animals, such as rabbits, doves, woodchucks, opossums and nutrias.
• Find Schooling fish swimming.

Spotting Splinters

• Wood splinters can be painful and become infected. By inverting the binoculars, they can be used as a microscope. Once found, simply tweeze them away.

Signaling

• Binoculars often have at least a single mirror on each of the tubes as most of these instruments use roof-prism technology.
• If you need to call for help or alert your friends about your location, you can smash your binoculars and use the mirrors within for signals.
• While they are relatively small, they can be used to catch search aircraft and personnel’s attention.

Benefit of having a Satellite Phone – Communicator

• • When communication services go down Satellite communications remain active. 
  • After a disaster or crisis event walkie talkies are a great way to communicate up to 35 miles based on line of sight but a Satellites phone range is unlimited

• Why might it be a good idea to have a GPS device in your Emergency Essentials GO-KIT?

   
  GPS devices come with several features, such as accurate altitude readings, recorded mileage, speed, changes in elevation, and even programs that tell you ahead of time about topographical features that could impede your trek, whether it’s canyons, rivers, or other hurdles.

• PLB – Personal Locator Beacon – 

  • If you are trapped or lost after a disaster or crisis event rescue teams can find your location with a PLB (Personal Locator Beacon) .
  • A PLB (Personal Locator Beacon) is designed for one thing: To send an emergency message.
  • If you are lost, trapped or suffer an injury one push of a button will summon rescue help.

Benefits of a Rangefinder:

• After a disaster you can find the distance to the nearest safe location and is that distance manageable based on your physical and mental wellness.
• Helping you Hunt for food

How Night Vision Can Save Your Life in a Natural Disaster:

• Searching for a missing person after a disaster or crisis event by the heat trail left on the furniture, floor, ground (depending on the conditions the traces remain for about 5 minutes)

Find entrance or an exit to a home or shelter:

• Night vision in a crisis will allow you to move freely around your home and property. 
• Enter your basement or garage, and help you find the entrance or exit to a home or shelter as quickly and safely as possible.

Hunting for Food:

• The night vision device is indispensable for food hunting.

Use in a Fire Situation during a disaster:

• Many times during and after a disaster or crisis a home can catch fire.
• Armed with Night Vision you can see the safest way out of the fire by bypassing the hottest areas as well as help find others in trapped in the burning home