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Emergency Preparedness Information

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The thought of Emergency Preparedness, Food Storage, learning to use radios and a whole host of other things can be overwhelming.  Plus, our busy lives leave little room for focusing on these things. These are resources that can help you do a little at a time, not one thing works for everyone. It may be easier to use the 52 week preparedness plan or to just pick up one extra thing when you do your shopping.

Preparing your home
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Downloads

Websites

LDS Emergency preparedness publications

Recommended by Huntsville Utah Stake

Videos

Getting home if you work outside the valley

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Food storage -​

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Emergency preparedness - 

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Other -

Recomended books

Be Ready Utah Library

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All downloads in this section were copied from the  Be Ready Utah website www.beready.utah.gov

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Documents - General

Documents - Family/Individual

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How to set up your BAOFENG radio for use with a repeater

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Repeaters that can be reached by Ogden Valley Residents-

GMRS -

  • Mt. Ogden repeater GMRS channel 17 frequency 462.600 

  • Powder mountain channel 18 frequency 462.625 

Below is a list of the GMRS repeater settings​

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ham repeaters -

  • Mt. Ogden repeater 448.600 pl tone 123

  • Powder Mountain 447.775 pl tone 123

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Lists of other Utah repeaters -

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Videos

​GMRS radios for beginners

Nota Rubicon - You tube channel with a lot of informational videos

Radio for preparedness 101: GMRS basics

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Radio information

There is a lot of information in this section and it might be easier to take it a little bit at a time

Getting your license

First you need to get a FRN (Federal Registration Number) -

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GRMS -

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Technician, General, Amateur (HAM) licence  test and study resources-

Radio information for beginers

5 things to know about GMRS radios (video)

Ham Radio for dummies

Two way radios and scanners for dummies

Radio protocol and phonetic alphabet download

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Baofeng radios -

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Tenway radios -

Radio clubs and organizations

Repeaters

Medical

We are so used to making a phone call and having medical professionals show up within a few minutes. What if there has just been a major disaster and they are overwhelmed? What are you going to do if a family member or friend has severe or life threatening injuries?

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This section is not to offer any medical advice from the creators of this website,  just to provide information about medical supplies to store and good places to obtain supplies along with videos . 

More information is still being added to this section all the time.

Medical supplies list

This will be a good list to get you started. Also you might want to store extra medical supplies.

  • Good bag to store all the medical supplies

  • Torniquet (Cat or Swat-T)

  • Celox z fold clotting gauze

  • Z fold gauze

  • Adhesive tape

  • Rolled gauze

  • 2x2, 3x3, 4x4 gauze

  • 5x9 ABD Combine pads

  • Compression bandage

  • Triangular bandage

  • ​Elastic bandages, different sizes

  • Coban wrap/Cohesive bandages, different sizes

  • Athletic tape

  • SAM Splint (Combo pack with different sizes is better)

  • Chest seals

  • Trauma/EMT shears

  • Non latex gloves in several sizes

  • CPR mask

  • Alcohol/Iodine swabs or pads

  • Penlight or flashlight

This is a good video about building a trauma kit.

Stop the bleed is a very good course on lifesaving measures when someone has a serious injury and is bleeding out.

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