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Emergency Preparedness Merit Badge
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Emergency Preparedness
Merit Badge
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Emergency Preparedness Merit Badge Overview
Scouts are often called upon to help because they know first aid and they know about the discipline and planning needed to react to an emergency situation. Earning this merit badge helps a Scout to be prepared by learning the actions that can be helpful and needed before, during, and after an emergency.
Emergency Preparedness Merit Badge Requirements
The requirements will be fed dynamically using the scout book integration
1.
Earn the First Aid merit badge.
2.
Do the following:
- (a)
Discuss with your counselor the aspects of emergency preparedness:
- Prevention
- Protection
- Mitigation
- Response
- Recovery
- (b) Using a chart, graph, spreadsheet, or another method approved by your counselor, demonstrate your understanding of each aspect of emergency preparedness listed in requirement 2a (prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery) for 10 emergency situations from the list below. You must use the first five situations listed below in boldface, plus any other five of your choice. Discuss your findings with your counselor.
- (1) Home kitchen fire
- (2) Home basement/storage room/garage fire
- (3) Explosion in the home
- (4) Automobile crash
- (5) Food-borne disease (food poisoning)
- (6) Fire or explosion in a public place
- (7) Vehicle stalled in the desert
- (8) Vehicle trapped in a blizzard
- (9) Earthquake or tsunami
- (10) Mountain/backcountry accident
- (11) Boating or water accident
- (12) Gas leak in a home or a building
- (13) Tornado or hurricane
- (14) Major flooding or a flash flood
- (15) Toxic chemical spills and releases
- (16) Nuclear power plant emergency
- (17) Avalanche (snowslide or rockslide)
- (18) Violence in a public place
- (c) Meet with and teach your family how to get or build a kit, make a plan, and be informed for the situations on the chart you created for requirement 2b. Complete a family plan. Then meet with your counselor and report on your family meeting, discuss their responses, and share your family plan.
3.
Show how you could save a person from the following dangerous situations without putting yourself in danger:
- (a) Touching a live household electric wire
- (b) A structure filled with carbon monoxide
- (c) Clothes on fire
- (d) Drowning using nonswimming rescues (including accidents on ice)
4.
Show three ways of attracting and communicating with rescue planes/aircraft.
5.
With another person, show a good way to transport an injured person out of a remote and/or rugged area, conserving the energy of rescuers while ensuring the well-being and protection of the injured person.
6.
Do the following:
- (a) Describe the National Incident Management System (NIMS)/Incident and the Incident Command System (ICS).
- (b) Identify the government or community agencies that normally handle and prepare for emergency services similar to those of the NIMS or ICS. Explain to your counselor ONE of the following:
- (1) How the NIMS/ICS can assist a Scout troop when responding in a disaster
- (2) How a group of Scouts could volunteer to help in the event of these types of emergencies
- (c) Find out who is your community's emergency management director and learn what this person does to prevent, protect, mitigate, respond to, and recover from emergency situations in your community. Discuss this information with your counselor, utilizing the information you learned from requirement 2b.
7.
Do the following:
- (a) Take part in an emergency service project, either a real one or a practice drill, with a Scouting unit or a community agency.
- (b) Prepare a written plan for mobilizing your troop when needed to do emergency service. If there is already a plan, explain it. Tell your part in making it work.
8.
Do the following:
- (a) Tell the things a group of Scouts should be prepared to do, the training they need, and the safety precautions they should take for the following emergency services:
- (1) Crowd and traffic control
- (2) Messenger service and communications
- (3) Collection and distribution services
- (4) Group feeding, shelter, and sanitation
- (b) Prepare a personal emergency service pack for a mobilization call. Prepare a family emergency kit (suitcase or waterproof box) for use by your family in case an emergency evacuation is needed. Explain the needs and uses of the contents.
9.
Do ONE of the following:
- (a) Using a safety checklist approved by your counselor, inspect your home for potential hazards. Explain the hazards you find and how they can be corrected.
- (b) Review or develop a plan of escape for your family in case of fire in your home.
- (c) Develop an accident prevention program for five family activities outside the home (such as taking a picnic or seeing a movie) that includes an analysis of possible hazards, a proposed plan to correct those hazards, and the reasons for the corrections you propose.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says when preparing for an emergency situation, start with the basics of survival: clean water, food, clean air and warmth.
The following lists will help you Be Prepared for times of emergency.
Family Emergency Kit
If you must evacuate your home with little notice …
Three-day supply of water
Nonperishable foods (including pet food) and a nonelectric can opener
Eating utensils
Special foods for any dietary restrictions, including baby foods
Family first-aid kit
Battery- or cranked-powered radio
Flashlight
Extra batteries (rotate these out regularly so they don’t go stale in your closet)
Matches in waterproof container
Blanket or sleeping bag for each family member
Extra clothing
Face masks for air filtering
Soap, wipes, antibacterial gel
Toilet paper
Copies of important family documents in waterproof containers
Signal whistle
Local maps
Cash
Major Disaster Preparedness Items
If you can safely stay in your home during an emergency …
Fire extinguisher
Tool kit (with ax, shovel, broom, screwdriver, pliers, hammer, coil of rope, coil of bailing wire, duct tape, razor blades, adjustable wrench for turning off gas or water)
Chart showing location of shutoff valves in your home, including the main electrical switch
Portable fire escape ladder for homes or buildings of more than one floor
Portable butane or charcoal stove (to be used outdoors away from the garage)
Gloves and cloths for cleaning up dangerous spills
Covered containers for storing waste
Garden hose kept near an outside faucet
Personal Emergency Service Pack
If you and your troop are called out to serve during an emergency …
Poncho or raincoat with hood
Change or underwear and socks
Small bag with toiletries
Sleeping bag and waterproof ground cloth
Map of area where you’re going
50 feet of No. 5 sash cord
Hand ax, folding saw or pocketknife
Water treatment equipment
Cook kit and canteen
Flashlight
Battery-powered radio
Extra batteries
Hard hart
Personal first-aid kit
Matches in waterproof container
Emergency ration
Pencil and small notebook
Handkerchief
Compass and map of the area (and GPS if you have one, with extra batteries)
Watch
Facial tissues
Work gloves
Face masks for air filtering
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