For many of us, the past few months have been a crash course in facing difficulties and dangers.
Handymen and caregivers became isolated and unavailable.Emergency serviceswere overwhelmed.
Deprived of your community, you tookmatters into your own hands, and you survived.
Because when emergency care doesn’t arrive, we need to feel confident that we can provide it ourselves.
So pull up a stool.
Be prepared, as the Scouts say, by learning some useful lessons for life.
CRISIS: You definitely, seriously smell smoke.
Surviving ahouse firehinges on your ability to escape quickly.
People who are frail and over 65 are at greatest risk in house fires, according to one study.
Sprinklers reduce the risk of dying in a fire by 80 percent, Hawes says.
If you come upon anauto accidentand decide to help out, think personal safety first.
Be Prepared
Keep a one-handed tourniquet in your car and at home.
