Survival:Beyond the Bug-Out Bag

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Waiting until disaster season is like waiting for the snowstorm to buy chains: you end up in the same line as everyone else, hoping there’s anything left. I’m Bill Bateman from Refuse to be a Victim Personal Protection Training in Southern Oregon, an...

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Smoke in the air changes how you think. We’re watching a major Southern Oregon brush fire grow in real time, and it becomes a blunt lesson in emergency preparedness, wildfire evacuation planning, and the mindset it takes to actually leave when you’re...

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The world can shift in a weekend, and the hard part is not buying gear. The hard part is knowing what you can actually do when you’re tired, scared, and responsible for other people. We take a practical, step-by-step look at emergency preparedness an...

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Share the takeaways from my live class at SOU this January. Excerpts highlight: A store-bought survival kit full of tiny bandages and cotton puffs is funny until someone’s bleeding. That hard-won moment kicks off a practical tour through modern prepa...

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A short outage can be annoying; a long one can upend your life. We open the door to a calmer, more capable approach to preparedness by focusing on the two weak links that fail first after a crisis: water and power. With our upcoming OLLI course as th...