Emergency Reference Cards

💧 Water Purification

• Boil: 1 min rolling (3 min above 6,500ft)
• Bleach 8.25%: 8 drops/gal, wait 30 min
• Iodine: 5 drops/qt clear, 10 drops cloudy
• Filter turbid water first (cloth/coffee filter)
• Safe: faint chlorine smell after treatment
• Dehydration: dark urine, confusion, no tears

📡 Morse Code

SOS: ···−−−···   dit=dot dah=dash

📻 Emergency Radio Freqs

• NOAA Weather: 162.400–162.550 MHz
• VHF Calling (HAM): 146.520 MHz
• Marine Ch 16 (Distress): 156.800 MHz
• CB Ch 9 (Emergency): 27.065 MHz
• CB Ch 19 (Highway): 27.185 MHz
• Aircraft Guard: 121.500 MHz
• FRS Ch 1: 462.5625 MHz

🏥 Wound Care

• STOP BLEEDING: Direct pressure 10+ min, elevate
• CLEAN: Irrigate with clean water under pressure
• CLOSE: Butterfly strips or sutures if deep
• COVER: Clean dressing, change daily
• INFECTION (act <24hr): spreading redness, pus, red streaks, fever, warmth
• Do NOT remove embedded objects

💧 Bleach Treatment Ratios (8.25%)

Wait 30 min. Water should smell faintly of chlorine. If no smell, repeat dose, wait 15 min more.

🚑 START Triage

RED (Immediate): Life-threatening, treatable now

YELLOW (Delayed): Serious but stable — can wait hours

GREEN (Minor): Walking wounded — treat last

BLACK (Expectant): Unsurvivable or deceased

Steps: 1) Walking? → GREEN. 2) Not breathing after airway → BLACK. 3) RR>30 → RED. 4) No radial pulse → RED. 5) Can't follow commands → RED.

🌿 Universal Edibility Test

1. Identify — research first if possible
2. Test one plant part at a time
3. Smell — unpleasant odor: reject
4. Skin test — rub on wrist, wait 15 min
5. Lip test — touch to lips, wait 3 min
6. Mouth — hold on tongue 15 min, spit
7. Eat 1 tsp, wait 8 hours
8. Eat small portion, wait 8 more hours

Never: milky sap · umbrella flowers · red berries

🔥 Fire Starting

Triangle: Heat + Fuel + Oxygen

Tinder: dry grass, bark dust, cattail fluff, fatwood

Kindling: pencil-size dry twigs, split wood

Fuel: wrist-size dry hardwood

Lays: Teepee (quick heat) · Log cabin (long burn) · Star (fuel-efficient)

Natural spark catchers: char cloth, amadou fungus, birch bark

🪞 Signaling

Ground signals (10ft letters, open ground):

V = Need help   X = Need medical help   → = Going this way

Signal mirror: Hold near eye · V-fingers at arm's length · Target in V · Tilt mirror so sun's reflection fills V · Sweep toward aircraft

Whistle: 3 blasts = distress. Repeat every 3 min.

Rule: 3 of anything = distress

🧭 Navigation Without Compass

Shadow stick: Mark tip → wait 15 min → mark again → line = E-W. Left foot on first mark = facing North.

North Star: Big Dipper outer bowl × 5 lengths = Polaris (North)

Watch (N. hemisphere): Hour hand → sun, bisect to 12 = South

Moss: North side of trees (verify with multiple trees)

🪢 Essential Knots

• Bowline: Fixed loop, won't slip — rescue, rigging
• Clove hitch: Quick attach to post — stakes, lashing
• Square knot: Join ends — bandages (not load-bearing)
• Sheet bend: Join ropes of different thickness
• Trucker's hitch: Mechanical advantage — load tie-down
• Figure-8: Stopper knot — prevent rope slipping through

🤖 Bunker Bot Setup

1. Install Ollama: ollama.ai
2. Download model: ollama pull phi3:mini
3. Start server: ollama serve
4. Open index.html in browser
5. Click Bunker Bot button (top right)

Small (4GB RAM): phi3:mini, gemma3:4b

Large (16GB+): llama3:8b, mistral:7b

Works fully offline once model downloaded

🦷 Dental Emergencies

• TOOTHACHE: rinse warm salt water; clove oil on cotton; ibuprofen for pain/swelling
• ABSCESS (swelling, fever): salt-water rinses; needs antibiotic (e.g. amoxicillin) — see dosing tool
• KNOCKED-OUT TOOTH: hold by crown, not root; reinsert in socket or keep in milk/saliva; act <30 min
• LOST FILLING: temporary fill with sugar-free gum or dental wax; keep clean
• BROKEN TOOTH: rinse; cover sharp edge with wax; protect from cold/heat

⚡ Solar / Power Troubleshooting

• Nothing charging: check fuses & breakers first; check polarity (+/−)
• Low/no panel voltage: clean panels; clear shade; check for cracked cells & loose MC4 connectors
• Voltage at panel, none at controller: broken wire or blown inline fuse between them
• Battery won't hold charge: check water level (flooded); test resting voltage — 12.0V = ~25%, 12.7V = full
• Inverter off/beeping: low battery cutoff or overload — shed loads, recharge
• Order to check: connections → fuses → battery voltage → panel voltage → controller → inverter

🔥 Fire — Fight or Flee

• PEOPLE OUT FIRST — no possession is worth a life
• Small fire: smother/cool — water, damp blanket, sand, earth
• Keep water + sand buckets by every stove and flame
• NEVER water on: grease/oil (smother w/ lid), fuel, electrical (cut power)
• Remove the fuel — drag burning items from what hasn't caught
• Prevent: sweep chimneys, store fuel sealed & outside, never leave flame unattended, cut firebreaks

👓 Vision & Eyes

• Spare glasses in your kit + write down your prescription on paper
• Pinhole trick: look through a tiny hole in card — sharpens distance vision
• Protect: eye cover for chopping/grinding/chemicals — blindness is permanent
• Snow/sun: slit-goggles from card/bark stop snow blindness
• Vitamin A (liver, eggs, orange/green veg) prevents night blindness
• Chemical splash: flush eye with clean water 15–20 min immediately