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1. Hey J.M. a very impressive, very informative, well-written, easy to understand article.

   Your last section on Home Base is the most likely place emergencies will occur for us stay-at-home types who are working on various projects all day long. Almost every week in my local newspaper this time of year there is a front page story of the latest house that burned down, almost always due to space heaters being used improperly and wood stoves. By the time the volunteer fire department arrives, all they can do is prevent it from spreading to other structures and then do mop-up afterwards. It’s pertinent that those of us relying on the local VFD to pretend like they don’t exist and have our own well-practiced fire plan. When they do arrive, we can either have slowed the fire down enough for them to actually save the house or we can have it extinguished if we react quickly enough while it’s still small. I not only have a plan, but as I’m standing there looking at the wood stove, I try to think of all the possible emergencies involving it: the chimney overheats and sets the ceiling on fire, the chimney falls over, a leg collapses and tips the stove, etc. If any of these happen, I’ve done like you said and pictured in advance what I’ll do so when the emergency happens I won’t have to stop and think, just let foresight and practice take over.

   Thanks again for taking the 50+ hours it no doubt took to put this article together and for sharing your expertise.

2. Far fetched, but if your spare tire is inflated, you can get air from it….

3. The article was very informative and I enjoyed reading it. Like St Funogas, we are mostly at home base now. We have a masonry fireplace with a flue inside it for the wood stove. Although our wood stove is an insert, we still have the chimney cleaned and the topper inspected every year. We also have fire extinguishers every where, as the volunteer fire department would not get here in time to save the house.

4. This is an excellent article. While some of us may select a different way, you’ve given folks enough data to use what you use or they can find what they think is more appropriate.

   To me, the major thrust of your articles (be prepared in all these areas) is really important.

   This reminds me of JWR’s book: “Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse”, it’s an adventure book but with real world specific items that will help in the coming financial disaster, as will your articles.

   Thank you for writing this article. Bless You!

5. Thank everyone for the great comments! If you’ve ever been involved in a life-or-death situation I’d like to ask you to write up a quick article on what happened and what you did to survive it and submit it to SurvivalBlog so that others can learn from your experience.

6. I have all three of the books that are referenced. They are excellent and each looks at survival from a little different perspective.

7. A very solid well written piece. Very extensive coverage especially for the new prepper.

8. On the scuba pony bottle, GET SCUBA CERTIFIED BEFORE USE!

   Air embolism can happen in as little as 2 feet of water depending on how compliant your lung tissue is. If you have had Covid, your lungs are scarred for life, and breathing compressed air is out of the question! If you get an air embolism, by the time they can get you to a chamber and compressed again, you are either dead, or a vegetable for life!

   This is why Covid scares the Schiff out of me as a diver!

   Vehicle side windows are now being made with laminate glass like your windshield. This is to prevent ejection in a crash. The problem is that it makes emergency egress in an underwater situation much harder, if not impossible! The hammers don’t work well on that stuff.

9. We were taught in an Auto Fire under the hood to spray thru the radiator into the engine compartment. Never open the hood and look in.
   This may not apply to some of the “NEW CAR or TRUCKS.”

   In the old days it worked.

   Gods Blessing. The Gman

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