Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival

This is the 2nd edition. A new and updated 3rd edition is available September 8, 2020. A complete guide to emergency preparedness for our uncertain times. Virtually an encyclopedia of food storage and personal preparedness, it covers topics from exactly how to design a food storage program tailored for your particular family to growing and preserving food, storing fuel, alternate energy, emergency evacuation kits, medical and dental, surviving biological, chemical and nuclear terrorism, communications, selection of firearms and other survival tools, and preparing for earthquakes.

Dozens of detailed, expert checklists and tables with photographs and index. Extensive book and resource lists with regular and Internet addresses. An absolute must for those serious about preparing for and surviving during our dangerous times.

Jack A. Spigarelli, original author of Crisis Preparedness Handbook, grew up roaming the hills around the small mining towns in Carbon County, Utah. He graduated from Carbon High School in Price, and served in the US Army, which included a tour in Vietnam. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in physics and later an MBA. He then pursued business interests, including several start-up companies. Ever passionate about preparedness topics, he diligently researched and experimented until he learned the best practices in being prepared. Jack desired to help others prepare and achieve peace of mind during times of crisis, and In the early eighties, his dream of writing a book about preparedness was realized. His 1984 edition of Crisis Preparedness Handbook achieved modest success in the survival/preparedness community. In 2002, he revised and published a second edition, which, over the next ten years, sold close to forty thousand copies. Jack married Patricia L. Mason and they are the parents of six children. He died in 2005.