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JOSEPH PRED
AND THE EDITORS OF OUTDOOR LIFE
Joseph Pred has made a career in emergency and risk management, with over 20 years of experience in public safety, with a renaissance style background in emergency medical services, law enforcement, fire safety, emergency communications, incident management, mental health, leadership, safety, and risk.
Josephs previous works include the Outdoor Life book Show Me How to Survive, and he regularly speaks at conferences on matters of public safety, risk, and temporary mass gatherings.
Currently he serves as CEO of Mutual Aid Response Services and Mutual Aid Safety & Risk. Learn more at www.josephpred.com.
Since it was founded in 1898, Outdoor Life magazine has provided survival tips, wilderness skills, gear reports, and other essential information for hands-on outdoor enthusiasts. Each issue delivers the best advice in sportsmanship as well as thrilling true-life tales, detailed gear reviews, insider hunting, shooting, and fishing hints, and much more to nearly 1 million readers. Its survival-themed Web site also covers disaster preparedness and the skills you need to thrive anywhere from the backcountry to the urban jungles.
I am grateful for the opportunity to share my knowledge and experience with you for this book, but I wouldnt have been able to do so without the immeasurable help of the colleagues, teachers, and mentors throughout the twenty-plus years of my career that have supported my professional development. Its impossible for me to name them all, but you know who you are.
I especially want to thank my friends and colleagues Barbara Denman, JohnRey Hassan, Humphrey s, and Nicole Nasser for lending some of their expertise on some of the content for this book.
Lastly, none of this would be possible without the guidance, support, and experience of my senior editor Mariah Bear. My sincerest thanks and gratitude for all the time and effort Mariah, and the entire team at Walden Owen Books who made this book possible, especially the efforts of Ian Cannon, Allister Fein, and William Mack.
Conor Buckley 7, 41, 49, 77, 94, 149, 180, 204, 224, 243, 248, 266; Liberum Donum: 3, 25, 42, 62, 83, 87,104, 118, 178, 184, 185, 198, 227; Hayden Foell: 57, 60, 82, 88, 111, 277; Christine Meighan: 33 (square, bowline), 81, 85, 92, 98, 99, 119, 163, 170, 183, 212, 233, 260; Bryon Thompson: 105; Lauren Towner: 33 (half hitches), 74, 158, 181, 257, 273
All photos courtesy of Shutterstock unless otherwise noted.
22: [#C tactical gloves] 5.11 Tactical; 26: [#3 sports tape] Mueller Sports Medicine, [#4 Steri-Strips, #6 reflective tape] 3M; 36: Airman 1st Class George Goslin; 44: [#4 Life-Hammer] Nov8 Safety, [#6 ProPac 4-in-1 Emergency Tool] ProPac USA, [#7 Gerber Spade] Gerber; 46: Smith & Wesson; 51: SureFire, LLC; 55: Goal Zero; 56: [RAVPower RP-PB08 Luster 3000mAh] RAVPower Inc. 61: [#6 Durkee Meat Tenderizer] ACH Food Companies, Inc. 67: [#C SAM Splint] SAM Medical Products, [#K Triangular Bandages] Dynarex Corporation, [#O Pocket Masks O2] Laerdal Medical; 74: Mylan Inc; 75: MedicAlert Foundation; 109: Getty Images, Maarten Wouters; 110: [3L Hover Mitt] Burton Snowboards; 125: [Sharpie Mini] Newell-Rubbermaid; 137: William Mack; 156 [Run Gum] RUN Performance Gum; 176: [Kidde Escape Ladder] United Technologies; 188 [Disaster Master] FEMA; 208: [large photo] William Mack, [Mr Yuck] Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh; 244: [SteriPen] Hydro-Photon; 276 [jumpsuit] Tyvek
My pocketknife is alarmingly orange, adequately sharp, and always in the left front pocket of my pants, whether those are faded work jeans or business-casual khakis. I use the lockback skinner mainly to slice apples, clean my fingernails (not always in that order), and open boxes. But its always there, because I never know when Ill also need it to cut a seatbelt, fend off a mugger, or hack my way intoor out ofa burning curtain factory.
This is the nature of emergency preparedness. While statistically speaking, the other guy (or girl) has a better chance of getting itwhatever it isthan you do, many of us keep an eye open for the worst that the world might deal. Maybe its a car wreck, or a house fire, a killer tornado, or a rabid raccoon. A 3-inch knife might not prevent or neutralize any of these disasters, but it cant hurt to have one in hand.
This is the premise and promise of the book in your other hand: that its better to be prepared for the worst than it is to be surprised and defenseless when it arrives. Because it will arrive. While statistically speaking, emergencies will remain strangers at any given moment, every human lifetime edges close to calamity at least once or twice. It might be a car accident, a natural disaster, a riot, or a fall down a flight of stairs.
As I reviewed and edited this excellent and useful crisis-response compilation, it occurred to me that humans can be almost equally divided into two camps: those who expect the worst and prepare for it and those who hope it will never happen to them. This is a book for the former, for those who recognize the world is a hazardous place and want to know precisely what to do when the shit goes down. For these people, knowledge is power, and this book is full of useful knowledge.
There is no better guide to this world of tragic what-if than author Joseph Pred. Pred has been a certified Emergency Medical Technician for more than 20 years, and he has trained in law enforcement, fire fighting, crisis intervention, and public-safety management. His particular field of expertise is in recognizing and mitigating the risks of large public gatherings, its own stew of suspended catastrophe and potential disaster.
Do you need this book? No. Not if you expect the best of the world, or think that disaster will never visit you. But if you fret about the contents of that strange package, or worry about the stability of the power grid or that rickety elevator, or if you want to know where to find safe air in a fire, how to splint a facture, or how to hack your cars battery to get out of trouble, then read this book. And pack an adequately sharp pocketknife.
ANDREW MCKEAN
Editor-in-Chief, Outdoor Life
Emergencies and disasters might feel like they belong in the realm of Hollywood movies, or like something that always seems to happen to someone else. After all, it can be uncomfortable to think about circumstances where things might be out of your control and the outcome is uncertain. But the fact is, emergencies happen to everyone. If youre lucky, the emergencies and disasters you face will be relatively minor, but sooner or later they will affect your life in some way. This book isnt intended to scare you with disasters or worst-case scenarios, nor is it intended to be an extreme end-of-the-world prepper manual. Instead, its intended for everyday people who want to be more informed and prepared, no matter what life brings. Facing adversity is difficult under almost any circumstance, but being unprepared makes coping with those emergencies that much harder. Your willingness to increase your awareness, take steps to plan ahead, and accept that life sometimes means handling tough situations with as much calm determination as you can manifest, will help you be resilient and prevail.
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