Be Prepared With Ready-Made Emergency Survival Kits

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Kiwi Lack Of Preparedness For Disaster Addressed With Ready-Made Emergency Survival Kits

Friday April 29, 2011

Kiwis who want to heed Civil Defence messages to “be prepared” but have no idea where to start will welcome the launch of Plan2Survive, a New Zealand company that provides ready-made survival kits for homes, work and school with enough food, water, warmth, and shelter to get through for at least three days in a disaster.

Founder Brent Agnew, an ex-army serviceman and keen hunter and tramper started Plan2Survive when it became very clear that although he knew how to get equipped for a Civil Defence emergency with his army experience, not many others around him did.

“It really struck me how there are all these campaigns aimed at motivating people to get ready for when disaster inevitably strikes, and yet very few people actually have an emer-gency survival kit in their home, office, or school,” Mr Agnew says. “I think the reality is, it’s not that people don’t want to have a kit ready to go, it’s more that they don’t know where to start,” he says.

“I was also appalled by a lot of the existing emergency survival kits that are on the market – some of them could be more life threatening than saving if people were to rely on them – so using skills I developed in the army and time spent “out bush” on hunting and tramping trips, I formulated what I believe are the ultimate in survival kits.”

The Plan2Survive kits range from one to four person 72hr Backpack Survival Kits for a getaway situation, two person or four person mega-kits that contain more luxury items and tools, through to 10 person office kits that even include two portable toilets and a pry bar.

Mr Agnew says the backpack kits contain the bare minimum items a good quality home survival kit should have. “Contents of these kits include emergency food and water with a five year shelf life, dust masks, First Aid kits, tube tents, emergency blankets and stoves, waterproof matches, swiss pocket knives, ponchos and more,” he says. “Some of the kits feature 24hr military style “rat packs” which are also available for separate purchase.”

Agnew says that with the frequency that natural disasters seem to be occurring at the moment, he and his team are doing everything they can to raise awareness of the kits so that Kiwis can be properly equipped. “There has never been a better time to get prepared for that natural disaster that might occur “some day”, because for many people, some day is here.”
For more information visit www.plan2survive.co.nz .

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