Emergency planning
We’re still finding dead neighbors in North Carolina. We need help | Morgan L Sykes
Hurricane Helene was devastating and so far the government emergency response hasn’t been nearly what we had hoped
Morgan L Sykes
08, Oct, 2024 @10:00 AM
The correct response to a disaster like Covid is to plan for the next one. I don’t see Britain doing it | Lucy Easthope
Think local, listen to the experts and get diverse voices in the room, says emergency planner Lucy Easthope
Lucy Easthope
25, Jul, 2024 @11:34 AM
I want to survive the apocalypse – but not if it’s just me and some terrible billionaires | Emma Beddington
Since the pandemic, remote properties have been marketed for off-grid living. But a life spent gardening and eating cormorants is not for me, writes Emma Beddington
Emma Beddington
30, Jun, 2024 @1:00 PM
Biohazards, Putin, extremism… we’ll need more than a few tins of beans | Martha Gill
Oliver Dowden’s advice on stockpiling forgets that co-operation is vital if we are to stand a chance against modern threats
Martha Gill
26, May, 2024 @6:30 AM
‘We never drop below 30 toilet rolls’: the Britons stockpiling for a crisis
Oliver Dowden this week advised people to stock up on certain supplies – but some people have been doing it for years
Amelia Hill
06, Dec, 2023 @5:54 PM
Tell us: do you stockpile items to prepare yourself for certain scenarios?
We’re keen to hear from people in the UK who have the habit of stocking up on items they think could come in handy in particular situations
Guardian community team
05, Dec, 2023 @10:50 AM
The Optus outage underlines the need for emergency mobile roaming | Mark Gregory
Australia lags behind New Zealand, the US and Canada in not allowing mobile roaming during disasters – but the ACCC has cleared the way
Mark Gregory
08, Nov, 2023 @2:00 PM
What would happen if Russia invaded Finland? I went to a giant war game in London to find out
Here, military personnel, Nato staff and others are facing off in a simulation. The winners? Those who stop the world plunging into catastrophe. The losers? Us, if they get it wrong
Tom Lamont
30, Sep, 2023 @10:55 AM
NSW government quietly drops partial merger of SES and Rural Fire Service proposed by flood inquiry
Labor looking at ways to improve ‘interoperability’ between the agencies instead of unpopular amalgamation option
Catie McLeod
19, Jul, 2023 @3:00 PM
Touched by a tragic first world war tale | Brief letters
Brief letters: Shot at dawn | Emergency alerts at evensong | A message to Airstrip One | Ofsted’s ‘inadequate’ | Jack Nicholson in Reds
24, Apr, 2023 @5:03 PM
Why did some people get the UK emergency alert late – or not at all?
On Sunday, millions of phones blared signal simultaneously under government test, but for some it did not go as planned
Dan Milmo and Alex Hern
24, Apr, 2023 @11:18 AM
Is this the way the world ends – or what passes for a nation coming together? | John Crace
No one paid much attention to the emergency test, and in Westminster it was hard to distinguish Armageddon from business as usual
John Crace
23, Apr, 2023 @7:07 PM
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