France preparing ‘survival manual’ for every household, report says
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Okay but why not both? They didn’t say “exclusively available online”.
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This should be standard, and very good on France for doing it. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
And I say this as someone who lives on a highly seismic region, where I used to see more awareness years ago. Pretty sure if nowadays we had a major earthquake or volcanic eruption most people would just panic, cause chaos and not have anything prepared for such an event. That's the unnecessarily scary part.
We should always acknowledge the uncomfortable possibilities, not stick our heads in the sand and hope trouble never comes knocking at the door.
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And without it most people would not even read anything about it until it's too late. Even with this argument it still accomplishes its goal better than a webpage or download that 80% of people will procrastinate on or forget completely. Case in point, the information has been out there on the internet for decades yet nobody is prepared for an emergency until it's at their front door. And if the internet is out you already missed your chance.
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An emergency doesn't necessarily mean your house is on fire. Recently I read a text saying that while the situation is dire, cities on the Russo-Ukrainian frontline which are targets of bombings on a daily basis still go about their daily routines as normal. But they are in an emergency, and a pamphlet like this hidden away in a drawer somewhere could definitely be useful.
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Had a factory explode just next to my city once. With everyone panicking, all connectivity (including calls and texts) was down in less than one hour. It was a while ago, but our infrastructure is more fragile than we imagine.
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That's because the whole of Europe is in undeclared war with Russia.
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And here I was thinking I must be the only Lemmy user in South West WA.
I agree that Fire risk in rural properties is taken seriously, though not many people I know who live down here actually have the pump and water infrastructure available to them if they had to fight a fire and the power goes out. I wish it was one of those things we took even more seriously.
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We have a lot of undeclared stuff going on, unfortunately.
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The entire world is preparing for war. As bad as these past few years have been, I fear that most of us haven't seen anything close to how bad it will get.
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Oh well... there's 2 of us I guess!
I thought rangers inspected farms to confirm they had their fire tender set up and fueled and had water and so on.
This map shows the risk in different areas and the level of preparedness expected on a given property depends on that level of risk.
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I did the maths once and estimated that there's probably about 10 people down here who ever signed up for Lemmy and 1 - 2 people who are active users, guess you're that other guy lol.
I'm not on a farm, but I'm on a bush block in a bushfire risk 2 according to that map (good link!). Never had a ranger come around, though we did recently have a local fire brigade volunteer do a info session/Meetup at the end of our street. I would imagine business out here/wineries would have to formally have a plan.
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PDF please 🥺
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Hopefully, we can stop it
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In france about the factory stuff it's already managed at the local scale
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And in more languages than just Swedish too.
English version of the brochure.
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Yeah right, I guess I am that one guy! Aparently lemmy's MAUs recently broke the record set in June 2023 so there might be 3 of us now?
I think the annual inspections of your fire breaks are a bit hit and miss. I know you could be fined if you haven't done it.
Like most council things maybe they only enforce it if your neighbour complains or something.
I just asked my sister who has a farm and she said the ranger only does an inspection "if he can be bothered getting off his fat lazy arse" and "this guy I honestly think just does personal vendettas".
So make of that what you will.
When you apply for a business use for a property that's when they really put you through the grinder. Often you need to pay for a bushfire consultant to prep a Bushfire Management Plan, it can get really expensive. Assholes.
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What if the power goes out though?
