What I Keep In My Go Bag

My Go Bag is this 45L MOLLE canvas backpack. The MOLLE design allows for an ever expanding ability to hold items of different shapes and sizes. It gives me great peace of mind to have survival tools ready to go at any time.

The Fire Escape Mask alleviates the number one cause of death in a fire - smoke. Smoke is responsible for 80% of deaths in fire. Wildfire smoke generates extremely small particles that when inhaled have been shown to increase risk of heart attack, stroke, asthma, lung cancer and a decline in cognitive function.

Anchor Industries' Fire Shelters are required PPE for woodland firefighters. They are used when there is no way to escape a fire. To be effective, you need to educate yourself on how to deploy them in a crisis. We have a link to a training video on our website, and YouTube has plenty of videos as well.

While our Wall Mountable Fire Blanket is the easiest and quickest way to put out a small fire in the kitchen or elsewhere in the house, you can also use it to cover your body as you run through flames. Use with the Fire Escape Mask for maximum protection.

Waterproof, dust-proof and impact resistant, XHP120 is a 9000 lumen, long-shot flashlight. It has a rechargeable battery, and serves as a phone charger as well. It is a must have in your Go Bag, and perfect for campers, hikers and people afraid of the dark. 

During a wildfire, an area served by cellular phone towers is at risk of an outage, according to researchers at the University of Winsconsin-Madison. This self-charging, NOAA accessible radio is great to have to get up-to-the-minute information about the emergency in your area when you can't use your phone. Solar power or hand-crank for recharging. Great as a flashlight and phone charger.

For vital documents, I trust Zarges Cases to protect them. I store Items like cash/credit cards, medicines, insurance policies, wills/trusts, passports/driver’s license, computers/phones, chargers, power cords/batteries, photos, jewelry, et al. If these items aren't protected, recovery will be miserable.