So Southern California is LITERALLY a hot mess. You can hardly look at any news source and not hear something about the devastating fires out there. On a fortunate note, I think only one fatality and some injuries. How odd to be saying that one fatality is actually a fortunate situation. The people are evacuating. They are listening and getting out.
This morning they interviewed a couple who was in Las Vegas when the fires started. The husband's mother was staying in their house watching their dogs. She's 81. Neighbors came pounding on her door and told her to get out - at this point she could actually see the fire. She called her son to ask him what he wanted her to take. Can you imagine? You can see fire and you actually call your son to see if there's something you can grab before you literally run for your life. His response - NOTHING. Get out. Get out now. This couple, sitting in Vegas while everything they own is going up in smoke, what do you do? Put it all on red and pray?
They had moved into this house 4 years ago - because they were living in the mountains, and the wildfires were getting too out of control up there. They decided to move where they felt it was safer, and now, here they are with nothing. Whatever clothes they took to Vegas, and two dogs. That's it.
So on this topic...if you had enough time to respond...a fire is coming and you have to get out. What do you take? What are the things that are irreplaceable to you? Kids, spouses are a given here. If you're about to lose it all, what do you grab on your way out the door? Your wedding album? A sweater your grandmother knit for you?
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I've been order by my kids to grab their baby books!
That's exactly what I was going to say. Photo albums.
In addition to the photos, it would be the file with the birth certificates, insurance papers, car titles, etc. I have all the important docs in a single location so I can grab and go, should the situation arise.
One thing I learned in a crises communications workshop was that people should grab the three Ps - purses, pills and pets.
I would grap the purse, phone, pets, and hope that the fire proof safe which holds importants papers and discs, holds up to it's name
Get a safe deposit box; then you don't have to worry about grabbing those papers.
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