The Neighborhood Emergency Response Handbook: Your Life-Saving Plan for Personal and Community Preparedness

Scott Finazzo

ago 2015 · Simon and Schuster

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Practical, step-by-step strategies for helping your own family, first responders and vulnerable community members during any emergency situation.

Eventually, everyone experiences a catastrophic emergency. Whether it’s a hurricane that sweeps across their entire state, an earthquake or flood that decimates their home city or a house fire that puts their family in danger. Knowing what to do before, during and immediately after these emergency situations can mean the difference between life and death. All across the country people of all walks of life are signing up for Community Emergency Response Team training classes where they learn how to help those in dire need and assist overwhelmed first responders in saving lives and preventing further disaster. This book teaches you what those CERT team members learn—from stabilizing a car crash victim for ambulance transport and rescuing trapped citizens from a fallen building to putting out a house fire before the fire trucks even arrive.

Learn about:

• Creating event-specific disaster kits for yourself and your family

• Learning about basic fire safety and fire fighting

• Establishing triage centers in the event that first responders can’t reach you

• Stabilizing disaster victims through need-to-know first aid

• Creating your own neighborhood emergency response team to keep your neighborhood safe and save lives should the worst occur

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Scott Finazzo has been a professional firefighter for seventeen years and is currently serving as a Lieutenant for the Overland Park (KS) Fire Department. He has been writing in various capacities for much of his life. With years of experience both preparing for and responding to disasters, he has developed a keen interest in survival. Scott maintains an intrinsic connection to travel and adventure. His self-reliance skills have been honed by undertaking ventures such as exploring the Rocky Mountains and several excursions into islands of the Caribbean.Scott co-authored The Prepper's Workbook, which quickly became a national best seller, with Scott B. Williams and followed it up with the narrative of his kayak adventure through the Virgin Islands with two friends in self built sea kayaks titled Why Do All the Locals Think We're Crazy?. In the summer of 2015 Scott continued on the topic of public safety with the release of his third book The Neighborhood Emergency Response Handbook. Most recently Scott released Prepper's Survival Medicine and Prepper's Guide to Knots.He has a Bachelor's Degree in Management and Human Relations and two Associate's Degrees. He currently lives in Lenexa, Kansas until he can relocate somewhere under a palm tree. Follow Scott at scottfinazzo.com.