Emergency planning

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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

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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

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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

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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

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‘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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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