ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Joseph Pred has made a career in emergency and risk management, with over 20 years of experience in public safety, with a renaissance style background in emergency medical services, law enforcement, fire safety, emergency communications, incident management, mental health, leadership, safety, and risk.

Joseph’s previous works include the Outdoor Life book Show Me How to Survive, and he regularly speaks at conferences on matters of public safety, risk, and temporary mass gatherings.

Currently he serves as CEO of Mutual Aid Response Services and Mutual Aid Safety & Risk. Learn more at www.josephpred.com.

ABOUT THE MAGAZINE

Since it was founded in 1898, Outdoor Life magazine has provided survival tips, wilderness skills, gear reports, and other essential information for hands-on outdoor enthusiasts. Each issue delivers the best advice in sportsmanship as well as thrilling true-life tales, detailed gear reviews, insider hunting, shooting, and fishing hints, and much more to nearly 1 million readers. Its survival-themed Web site also covers disaster preparedness and the skills you need to thrive anywhere from the backcountry to the urban jungles.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am grateful for the opportunity to share my knowledge and experience with you for this book, but I wouldn’t have been able to do so without the immeasurable help of the colleagues, teachers, and mentors throughout the twenty-plus years of my career that have supported my professional development. It’s impossible for me to name them all, but you know who you are.

I especially want to thank my friends and colleagues Barbara Denman, JohnRey Hassan, Humphrey s, and Nicole Nasser for lending some of their expertise on some of the content for this book.

Lastly, none of this would be possible without the guidance, support, and experience of my senior editor Mariah Bear. My sincerest thanks and gratitude for all the time and effort Mariah, and the entire team at Walden Owen Books who made this book possible, especially the efforts of Ian Cannon, Allister Fein, and William Mack.

ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

Conor Buckley 7, 41, 49, 77, 94, 149, 180, 204, 224, 243, 248, 266; Liberum Donum: 3, 25, 42, 62, 83, 87,104, 118, 178, 184, 185, 198, 227; Hayden Foell: 57, 60, 82, 88, 111, 277; Christine Meighan: 33 (square, bowline), 81, 85, 92, 98, 99, 119, 163, 170, 183, 212, 233, 260; Bryon Thompson: 105; Lauren Towner: 33 (half hitches), 74, 158, 181, 257, 273

PHOTO CREDITS

All photos courtesy of Shutterstock unless otherwise noted.

22: [#C tactical gloves] 5.11 Tactical; 26: [#3 sports tape] Mueller Sports Medicine, [#4 Steri-Strips, #6 reflective tape] 3M; 36: Airman 1st Class George Goslin; 44: [#4 Life-Hammer] Nov8 Safety, [#6 ProPac 4-in-1 Emergency Tool] ProPac USA, [#7 Gerber Spade] Gerber; 46: Smith & Wesson; 51: SureFire, LLC; 55: Goal Zero; 56: [RAVPower RP-PB08 Luster 3000mAh] RAVPower Inc. 61: [#6 Durkee Meat Tenderizer] ACH Food Companies, Inc. 67: [#C SAM Splint] SAM Medical Products, [#K Triangular Bandages] Dynarex Corporation, [#O Pocket Masks O2] Laerdal Medical; 74: Mylan Inc; 75: MedicAlert Foundation; 109: Getty Images, Maarten Wouters; 110: [3L Hover Mitt] Burton Snowboards; 125: [Sharpie Mini] Newell-Rubbermaid; 137: William Mack; 156 [Run Gum] RUN Performance Gum; 176: [Kidde Escape Ladder] United Technologies; 188 [Disaster Master] FEMA; 208: [large photo] William Mack, [Mr Yuck] Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh; 244: [SteriPen] Hydro-Photon; 276 [jumpsuit] Tyvek