November marks the beginning of the holiday season when we spend a lot of time in the kitchen preparing food for family and friends. Cooking and meal preparation are important skills to have when you want to impress your guests with your roast beast, but it is also an important part of emergency preparedness. Consuming warm food and drink helps …
October 2025: What’s in Your Kit?
The purpose of a disaster supply kit is to help you survive from the moment an emergency happens to the time you can get to more supplies and help, rescuers arrive, or the incident is over. This could be three days, five days, a week, or longer. Two important parts of your disaster supply kit are water and food. You …
September 2025: Flood Prep and National Preparedness Month
Utah is a desert and we’ve been in a drought for years on top of that. We love it when the monsoon season comes and brings rain to our parched land. Unfortunately, sudden and intense precipitation on dry ground means flooding and flash flooding. Even worse, areas with a wildfire within the past few years are susceptible to debris flow …
June 2025: Prepare and Be Aware
One time when my daughter was little, I was helping out in her nursery group. We were in a public building and there were about a dozen little kids and a few other adults in the room. As we were passing out the fish crackers and juice for snack time, the fire alarm suddenly went off. Everyone’s eyes went big, …




