Emergency safety

Alerts, shelter, and what is left afterwards

Understanding official warnings, protecting yourself from blast and glass, and the hazards that remain once it appears to be over — including why you never touch what might be unexploded ordnance.

Free 10 lessons 46 min Open to everybody. No account, no payment.

Reading, not training. Follow the emergency services and the civil-protection authority where you are; where they differ from this page, they govern.

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Lessons

  1. 01 Know what your country's warning sounds like 5 min
  2. 02 Where to shelter is a national question 5 min
  3. 03 During an alert 4 min
  4. 04 Blast, glass, and the two seconds afterwards 5 min
  5. 05 Damaged buildings stay dangerous 4 min
  6. 06 Suspicious objects and unexploded ordnance 5 min
  7. 07 After the all-clear 4 min
  8. 08 Reporting what you saw, safely 5 min
  9. 09 If somebody is missing 4 min
  10. 10 Afterwards, including the part nobody plans for 5 min

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