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CHAPTER FOUR–BUSINESS SURVIVABILITY AND COVERAGE

This Chapter is used mostly for business, but its applications can be used for the serious individual wanting to enhance his/her survivability. A 100 point Survivability Checklist is first to score your business' Survivability Rating. Then we will cover previous plans, covered data, backed-up data, uncovered data, supplies, evacuations, business fires and salvaging.

100 POINT BUSINESS SURVIVABILITY CHECKLIST

LESSON 35: This is a SELF-SCORING checklist PRIOR TO YOUR FDN ASSESSMENT!

Do you have positive answers for each of these questions? Give yourself credit for WHERE APPLICABLE (WA) or NOT APPLICABLE (NA) questions, and list positive answers with details. Complete checklist and place your score here:___. # Positive Answers=Rating: 10-Very Poor, 20-Poor, 30-Fair, 40-Average, 50-Good, 60-Best, and 75-Ultimate.

THE QUESTIONS WILL EITHER BE: Do you have..?, Where is (are)..?, Are (Is) there..?, How many..?, or otherwise explained.

TWENTY FIRE/SAFETY QUESTIONS:

1. Is there an existing plan in effect?_____
2a. Is plan current, within one year)?_____

2b. Date last inspected by Fire Department, Insurance Agent, or FDN?______

3. Are exits marked? ___Evacuation Plan posted?___ # of places?____

4. Number of Extinguishers/Sprinklers for each 200-500 sq. ft.?

5. Locations of extinguishers?

6. Number of electronics/paper cabinets under sprinklers?

7. Are there warning system or alarms inside or outside?

8. Are the safety lights: continuous or for power outage?

9. What is the distance to fire station?

10. What is the response time?

11. How far are the closest hydrants and colors?

12. What are the evacuation rendezvous points?

13. Safety and fire precautions inside?

14. Safety and fire precautions outside?

15. Close proximity precautions (see Risk Assessment on page 16)?

16. Grass and woods fire danger?

17. NEW EVACUATION PLAN-Assets?

18. NEW EVACUATION PLAN-Personnel?

19. Safety plan in effect with training?

20. Basic counter-crime plan in effect with training?

You should have at least 10 positive or NA answers in this part.

TEN DOCUMENTS COVERAGE QUESTIONS:

21. Safe deposit box?

22. Fire proof safe/boxes/cabinets?

23. When was Insurance last reviewed with agent?

24. How is data backup-ed?

25. Are there hard copies, flash drives and external drives in fire safe?

26. Are there hard copies, flash drives and external drives stored off site?

27. What kind of Un-coverage problems are there?

28. Is there an Evacuation Plan for uncovered data and source documents?

29. Do you have office supply and work station evacuation kits?

       Or are they at alternate locations?

30a. The number of hours that could be lost due to an evacuation?

30b. Where is the alternate site?

30c. Who is the Section/Floor Fire/Evacuation Marshall?

TWENTY WEATHER AND NATURAL DISASTER QUESTIONS:

For each question list what to do, where safe areas are, etc.:

31. Winter l-Are there Winter Survival Kits for the firm and in employees personal vehicles or backpacks?

32. Winter Il-Blizzard-Do you have a non-essential work plan?

33. Flood l-Are you in a Flood Plain or close to a drainage system for heavy rain?

34. Flood Il-Are you 20 miles or less below a dam?

35. Thunderstorm hazard?

36. Large hail?

37. Tornadoes?

38a. Drought food loss-see #45?[NOT NECESSARILY]

38b. Flood food loss-see #45?   [FOR STORES OR]

39. Freeze food loss-see #45?  [RESTAURANTS]

40. Hail food loss-see #45?                                              [www.MREdepot.com ]

41. Food changes-long term options-what will you do?   [Long time shelf items]

42. Wild fire risk?

43. Hurricane strengths 1-3?

44. Hurricane strengths 4-5, reaching inland?

45. How may business supply lines are affected by above?

46. Do you have alternate supply lines, extra storage capacity or secondary storage?

47. Earthquakes risk?                                                       [www.GeneratorJoe.net ]

48. Volcano risk (WA)?                                                     [Direct Current sources]

49. Tidal waves (WA coastal)?

50. Space options–SOLAR FLARES, falling debris, meteors, UFO?

TWENTY LEAKS/MANMADE DISASTERS:

For Numbers 51-60: Short term evacuation for 1 week maximum.

51. Is there risk within 3 miles (construction digs?-need constant evaluation)

52. What is the local risk for...?

53. What is the state risk for...? (Check Annexes in Chapter 8)

FOR THE OTHER 47 QUESTIONS YOU NEED TO BUY THE BOOK, OR VERSION TWO.

LESSON 36-BUSINESS SURVIVABILITY

Business Survivability is a little more detailed than Family Survivability just for the major reason of money or more specifically, lack of income during a disaster. After a disaster you want to be able to restart your business rapidly to generate income again whether it is cash, credit, A/R payments, etc., be able to use your business records and computer files, reestablish suppliers, salvage and acquire inventory, hire employees and re-open your doors. Make sure to have enough laptops to set up secondary business site and acquire internet service.

If 25 people join FDN, this includes owners and managers and their families, employees and their families as well as temporary workers and their families, then you get one phone or e-mail hour free. This arrangement can continue as long as you need as long as you can get 25 new members for each Survivability Consulting hour. See the paragraph below for further details. Remember that there are five memberships to any FDN Family Book or Manual. We can review previous plans, create new plans, implement them and train you and your employees.

IMPORTANT

As well as getting 25 new members for each Survivability Consulting Hour, you will have to either buy any variation to a total of $72.00 for each Consulting Hour on of this manual, Amazon.com, various books, Manuals or Guides, or thru DBLT-FDN the rights for the various PDFs or the 2^nd Edition Booklet.

Price Listing is as follows: ON AMAZON.COM: VERSION ONE: $14.95; VERSION TWO: $22.95; 2012/2013 PREPPER’S GUIDE: $19.95 or Challenging Life’s Ins and Outs: $24.95. ON PDF: All books or Manuals 1-5 copies are $10.00 each, 6-12 copies are $8.00 each, please call for further price breaks. We won’t be able to use the 99 cent Amazon or Nook version for Survivability Consulting.

You will also have to fill out a BRCO Form 12-28–Registration Form on page 120 and have each family of five fill out the Membership Registration Form on page 121. These forms must be called in and mailed in to FDN to be verified before the Consulting can take place.

If you have studied and understood the last 50 pages of this OPSMAN, then spending the extra time to develop your business survivability plan should not be so hard.

PREVIOUS PLANS, COVERED DATA, BACKED UP DATA, UNCOVERED DATA, AND SUPPLIES:

If you have and disaster and evacuation plans, get them out now. Study them carefully, as you are reading them I bet that you now see several items missing, jot those down. Make a new rough draft of your plans, adding in the missing parts that you have learned about from FDN. Once a final copy is done, then implement it and train your management, staff, and employees. Do Quarterly Reviews with all employees and Managers on or about January 5, April 1, July 1 and October 1. Try to involve some family members for Coordination and Communications.

LIST PREVIOUS PLANS AND DATA COVERAGE:

COVERED DATA: Covered data is fire-proofed, duplicated and triplicated in a safety deposit box, and or a fire-proofed safe and even best at an off site secure site. Covered items would include all income tax and accounting data, titles, deeds, insurance policies and licenses or copies there of. All originals that do not have to be posted in a conspicuous place should be covered. If licenses have to be out, then make copies and cover in safe. As a Survivability Client, a master list of items that will be covered will be made by me and your firm, and it can be adjusted without my consent. The basic idea is for you to think about all things that should be safe (covered) and not to be worried about them if a quick evacuation of your building is called: ITEMS BY THIS FIRM TO BE COVERED:

BACKED-UP DATA: It is computer or accounting/tax data that is at least duplicated on flash drive or hard copy that could be used to restart your business and accounts without the least amount of casualty loss or delay. Ultimately your firm should have two copies of data on site, one copy off site and another on a flash drives and another on a external hard drive at another site. BACKED-UP DATA FOR YOUR FIRM:

 

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WELCOME TO FDN! Can you properly evacuate your home or work in three minutes or less and survive for seven days on your own? FDN has pre-disaster and evacuation plans for all contingencies. We offer Personalized Service for your family or work. The VERSION ONE of “A Families’ Comprehensive Pre-Disaster Planning Manual” with 108 pages and 71 life lessons will be $10.95 plus S&H thru Amazon.com this Month. There will also be a e-version for most readers available for 99 cents. You can now pre-order the PDF version of VERSION TWO for $10.00 make checks payable to DBLT–FDN . SO JOIN FDN TODAY. Prepare for anything, anywhere and anytime.

I get my information from over 14 news sources and some other places also.

FDN GEMSTONE CODE ALERT STATUS: We use GEMSTONE CODES (see Chapters 8 and 10) to explain various types of events in the world. Do not worry about GEMSTONE CODES they are a FDN internal management and intelligence tool, just read the information.

The current high CODE IS GOLD: This is due to the CODE EMERALD for the Global War on Terror GWOT-WWIV and CODE EMERALD for OEF in Afghanistan since most scenarios have calmed down.

There is a CODE BRONZE for various wildfire evacuations in over eleven states. There is a CODE RUBY for the excessive heat wave (over 90 degrees for over eight weeks) for over eleven weeks plus the ongoing drought conditions setting up in the southern and now mid-western states. Over 50 percent of the countries’ counties (1800) are now declared as in a drought disaster.

There is a CODE SILVER-OS-ACTUAL for Syria for the continuing uprising of last years ARAB SPRING. Over 15,000 Syrians have been killed by the Assad Regime. There is still talk of military intervention, but the Russians and Chinese won’t have any of it. There are agreements and a troika signed for this matter.

There is a CODE SILVER-OS ACTUAL for Iran for the continuing pressure on Iran to give up its Nuclear Weapons Program. It has over 3,000 centrifuges to process enriched uranium to build nuclear weapons. Possible date for this to happen would be 2013. Any attack by Israel or the US would cause a CODE EMERALD and possibly a CODE COBALT. There is a CODE SILVER-OS-ACTUAL for Yemen for continuing drone strikes on targets against AQAP (Al-Qeada in the Arab Pennisula [EMERALD-GWOT]).

There are multiple CODE SILVERS-OS-ACTUAL for ARAB SPRING demonstrations/unrest in Bahrain, Yemen, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other Arab Countries. Yemeni President Ali Saleh was serious wounded in a June 3, 2011 rocket attack and had to get medical treatment in Saudi Arabia, but he still kept power. These stories don’t make it into the usual U.S. news stories unless, they feel like reporting it. I get news feeds from 8 international channels on Dish Network (BBC, Deutche Welle, Russia Today, CCTV, Israel Broadcasting Authority, Al-Jazerra and many other countries.

EXPOSE ON SYRIAN UPRISING AND A POSSIBLE ATTACK: Syria, Bahrain and Yemen also had various demonstrations and some demonstrations were put down violently by their countries’ regimes. Syrian President Bashir Al-Assad, a British trained Ophthalmologist (eye Doctor), a Batthist, Shi’a and minority Alouite, started to put down various demonstrations violently. In 2011, over 20,000 innocent civilians were killed by Assad’s Army. Most of the Free Syrian Army the other rebels and even Al-Qaeda members are mostly Sunni.

One of the problems is that Iran, which is also Shi’a supports Syria’s regime and arms it. Also the kicker is that Russia has a Navy base on the coast and has a military support troika with Iran and China. This is why any kind of U.N. measures always get no vote by Russia and China which veto power. If the US or NATO were to go in with military force for even a limited time, there would be severe political, economic and military blowback from various countries that we seem to depend on. More as I have time. RESEARCH IT YOURSELVES, RESEARCH IRAN, RUSSIA, CHINA, EUROPE CRISIS, ETC. I’ll fill in more in next reports.

SO ALWAYS BE PREPARED FOR ANYTHING, ANYWHERE, AT ANYTIME! Red Becker, Founder/Author, FDN, Phoenix One-CB Channel 31.

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How to Survive each Scenario

LESSON 17-FIRE EVACUATIONS: In the previous chapter we covered fire safety and prevention. In this section we will cover more on fires and properly evacuating them. If you have used your lessons properly, then FEMA, the Red Cross and other NGOs won’t have to spend as many disaster relief dollars since you pre-prepared and mitigated your family and assets.

If you are remodeling your home or buying a new one or changing your landscaping, then you should have your landscaping consistent with regional natural landscapes. If you live in a desert plateau, in the Southwest, then have a desert landscape. Also have a non-potable well that can water your yard as well becoming a minor fire hydrant for your yard and have fire breaks and a 360 degree sprinklers for your roof.

First ensure that you have taken all proper precautions from the previous section, then you are ready to prepare for evacuations. Check the website www.iii.org for the Insurance Information Institute.

Creating an evacuation plan for your home can be a simple one, but it must involve all members of your family or household. All of you must review and most importantly PRACTICE your evacuation plan on a quarterly basis for the first week of January, April, July and October.

“In 2008, U.S. Fire Departments responded to 64,100 house fires that involved in home heating equipment. There were 540 fire deaths, 1400 injuries and $943 million in damages. Home equipment fires were down 16% and home fire deaths were down 21%. Remember to keep extension cords three feet away from any combustible materials and that all electrical items have the ‘UL Code Tested’ tag. Remember that only one power strip or extension cord can be plugged into one (1)-two (2) plug outlet.” Enid, OK, News and Eagle, December 17, 2009. (Debbie is from Enid.)

To create a fire evacuation plan for your home, first draw a simple floor plan including all rooms. It doesn't have to be to scale but should be close. If the living room is the largest room and there are three about equal size bedrooms more square and half as small, then your floor plan should realize these dimensions.

There should be at least two evacuation plans to get out of your home and even a plan to escape if those are blocked by fire, or debris, then escape out of windows. Second or third story windows should have portable hanging escape ladders. If you're in a large building, consult the evacuation plan or ask the management for information. Apartment, hotel and other complexes are required to display the evacuation plan with the closest and all evacuation routes out of the building.

If you have to evacuate, crawl on the floor where the air is better. If you can’t get the fire out in a minute or less on the inside of a building then GET OUT!!

Every household member should know what to do no matter where the fire breaks out. For fires to thrive they need Fuel, Oxygen, and Heat. Take one away and they die. Recheck Scenarios One and Two on page 24 and the 20 questions on page 63 for fullest review.

WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF A FIRE: The RACE method says to Rescue, Alarm, Control, and Evacuate/Extinguish. I say Rescue other lives and alarm at the same time. All fires are to be to be reported to the fire department even though you got it out. Have extinguishers in the kitchen or work shop and check them annually by a professional. They can lose their charge. Baking soda can get rid of some small stove fires. Test the smoke and fire alarms monthly and replace the batteries when it's time to fall back and spring forward.

LIFE CYCLE OF A FIRE: A small or smoldering fire can expand to a whole room in 10 minutes depending on the materials. A fire will climb a wall, shoot across a ceiling, then go back down the wall until it has to find more fuel and air. This is called the flashback. Flashbacks are also caused by opening the doors and the fire vacuums to another room. Feel doors for hotness with the back of your hand before opening them. From CVFD Fire Chief P.—FDN call sign Phoenix Five—he says to use the back of your hand, not the palm, because the palm is harder to heal and you will need your palm to grip items.

If you or someone else catches on fire, then roll on the ground or cover with a blanket to smother the flames. See how to take care of burns on page 37 and more First Aid is in Chapter Two.

GRASS/SHRUB/FOREST FIRES: They start due to extended dry conditions, some fires are caused by lightning, but most of these fires are caused by HUMAN STUPIDITY and carelessness from smoking, fireplace ashes, and campfires. Follow all fire or Forest Service regulations for low or no burn time frames. Douse all campfire ashes, and let fireplaces ashes cool down for 48 hours in a metal container. Many fires start due to lack of proper cool down from ashes.

How to prepare: If you live or work in a brush fire risk area and as a member of FDN, then you will already have 14 day kits ready and important documents covered. When there are dry spells or an imminent danger of grass/brush/forest fires, then you must do a preparatory evacuation by finishing your survival to a month level status (kitchen and bathroom kits). When there is over two hours evacuation time, then grab your priceless heirlooms, family pictures, those items you couldn't replace, etc., and other items to a safe area out of harm’s way, use family or friends home or a secure storage that is not in a fire, flood, or high crime area. See on Recap on Evacuations on page 28 and see Annexes in Chapter 9. Review Chapter One.

BRUSH FIRE PREVENTION-ZONING: Many cities, including Colorado Springs, have ordinances for developments that are in a high fire risk zone (brush, oak scrub, forests) and obey these. Contact your local zoning for actual ordinance and rules or covenants.

One city, Colorado Springs (1991), has an ordinance with the following. Any new or replacement roofing must be graded Class C (tile, certain grades of asphalt, pressure treated shake), fire retardant siding, no branches over roofs, no brush and vegetation within several feet (10 foot or more firebreak) away from house. Some sites must have monitored fire alarm systems and interior sprinkler systems.

More fire protection and mitigation for these areas. Also drill a non-potable well, with a sign that states, “NON-POTABLE WATER—DO NOT DRINK”, that can water your yard as well becoming a minor fire hydrant for your yard, to water fire breaks and to have a few 360 degree sprinklers for your roof. Have a small solar power or backup battery system to run system if you have evacuated your property and need to keep the water pump running.

I would play it safe and extend/enhance beyond all codes. If you can delay a brush fire from reaching your house for two hours, then you can escape and evacuate properly. The fire department might be able to save your home. Develop a full evacuation plan, with two or more escape routes (streets), and two meeting places. One place should be a house or two away from your home and the other should be a mile or more away just in case the evacuation calls for a larger area. Remember to use your two-way radios.

California and other southwestern states that have dry zone brush and forest fire seasons wind up losing their native grass, bushes and brush. Then the next month the rain season starts and then massive mud slides start and even more damage occurs. To help mitigate mud slides have T-type concrete or timber walls constructed on your property.

My sentiment is that is if you don’t belong to FDN and you have not covered all your assets and items properly by using this Manual, then you should be ready to lose everything and then not be able to move back to that area on the hill with the great view. In a few years (FY2017) FEMA, Insurance Companies and other NGOs may not be able to help you anymore.

So either you are on your own and take full responsibility for your actions (or lack thereof) or you join FDN and do all the full mitigation levels prior to disasters and evacuations.

These paragraphs are also for those in Hurricane Zones, Tornado Alley, Fire and Flood Zones and other disaster alleys. Remember that you are someone else to the other person. So it can happen to you.