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wildfire evacuation checklist

Post-incident reviews of wildfire evacuations across southern Europe, California and Australia keep producing the same finding: the households that leave late are rarely the ones who ignored the warning. They are the ones who received it and then spent twenty minutes deciding what to take. Preparation is not about stockpiling. It is about removing decisions from the worst possible moment to make them.

  • Identity and legal documents — passports, residence papers, insurance policies, property deeds — in one waterproof folder, plus photographs of each stored in the cloud.
  • Prescription medication for at least seven days, in original packaging with dosage visible.
  • Two litres of water per person, plus food that needs no preparation.
  • N95 or FFP2 masks. Smoke, not flame, causes the majority of wildfire health impacts.

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