Survival skills, step by step
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Knowledge weighs nothing, never expires and can't be stolen. Read these now and practice them: in an emergency there's no time to learn.
- 3️⃣ The rule of 3: A way to set priorities, not an exact figure: the order in which the lack of each thing kills you.
- ❤️ First aid and CPR: The skill that saves the most lives. Nothing replaces a hands-on course: the Red Cross and civil protection agencies run them.
- 🔥 Lighting and controlling a fire: Fire needs three things: fuel, oxygen and heat. If one is missing, it goes out.
- ⛺ Shelter and warmth: In cold, wind or rain, losing heat is the most urgent problem. The ground steals more heat than the air.
- 🪢 Four useful knots: Four knots cover almost every situation: tying, securing, tensioning and joining.
- 🧭 Finding your way without GPS: If the battery runs out, a compass, a paper map and the sun still work.
- 🆘 Distress signals: Three of anything is a distress signal recognized worldwide.
- 🌱 Emergency vegetable garden: A vegetable garden won't feed you in an emergency lasting days, but in a long crisis it tops up the pantry. Start now: it takes a season to learn.
- 💧 Water outdoors: No river, unchecked spring or rainwater is safe without treatment, however clean it looks.