The French government is reportedly planning to send a “survival manual” to every household in the country with instructions on how to prepare for an “imminent threat” including armed conflict, a health crisis or a natural disaster.
If approved by François Bayrou, the prime minister, the 20-page booklet will be sent to households before the summer, French media reported.
It will be divided into three parts with advice on how to protect “yourself and those around you”, what to do if a threat is imminent – with a list of emergency numbers, radio channels and a reminder to close doors and windows if the threat is nuclear – and details of how to get involved in defending your community, including signing up for reserve units or firefighting groups.
Ahh we got those in sweden a few months ago
PDF please 🥺
The french version is awaiting approval, but the swedish version is available in english here - https://www.msb.se/sv/publikationer/om-krisen-eller-kriget-kommer-pa-engelska/
There’s also a Dutch version of this (in English): https://english.denkvooruit.nl/
And Finnish version. Also available in English.
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.
Hopefully, we can stop it
Japan has various info on its website and, at least in Tokyo Metro, they send (or at least sent) a big disaster prep book to every household. However, we get earthquakes, typhoons, tsunamis, mudslides, and volcanic eruptions fairly regularly so we kinda need to be on top of at least the known/common threats.
That’s because the whole of Europe is in undeclared war with Russia.
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.
I have 3 and a half thousand hours in DayZ. I’m golden.
It’s surprising that it’s not standard in any country and that it’s not managed at the municipal level.
Where do I evacuate in case of natural disaster? Is there a dangerous factory which may explode/ release toxic products nearby? How high is the flood risk? What about forest fire
These info should be easy to get for everyone. Statistically speaking some citizen will (unfortunately) need it this year
In france about the factory stuff it’s already managed at the local scale
I think most risks are managed at the municipal level.
Here in South West of Western Australia bush fires are a real risk. The risk is very well managed with properties in fire prone areas inspected for preparedness and penalties for those who aren’t prepared. You need portable water pumps and cleared fire breaks et cetera.
We don’t have cyclones / hurricanes here so we don’t prepare for that.
There’s not presently a significant risk of military action, but if that were to change I guess the govt would help people prepare, as is happening in France I guess.
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.
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.
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.
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.
