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Chapter 5
--Improvising Fallout Protection
Chapter 6
--Supplies for Fallout Shelters
Chapter 7
--Water, Food, and Sanitation in a Shelter
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
--Emergency Care of the Sick and Injured
PART II: MAJOR NATURAL DISASTERS
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
--Earthquakes
Index
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INTRODUCTION
A major emergency affecting a large number of people may occur anytime and anywhere.
It may be a peacetime disaster such as a flood, tornado, fire, hurricane, blizzard or earthquake. It could be an enemy nuclear attack on the United States.
In any type of general disaster, lives can be saved if people are prepared for the emergency, and know what actions to take when it occurs.
With the aid of Federal and State governments, cities and counties in all parts of the country are developing their local civil defense systems--the fallout shelters, supporting equipment and emergency plans needed to reduce the loss of life from an enemy attack.
While these local government systems have been set up mainly as safeguards against nuclear attack, they have saved lives and relieved suffering in many major peacetime disasters. People have been warned of impending storms and similar dangers, told how to protect themse