"GO BAGS" - what's in yours?

ehouk wrote:
We're FT in a MOHO & we don't have one. What type of situations do you prepare for & what's in you Go-Bag?

After hearing about several friends who have had RV fires, we're working on our fire box. Any suggestions for type of fire box & contents??

Thanks

Not sure what a 'Fire Box' is.... but living in the Pacific Northwest with the ever present possibility of the Cascadia Event, I always travel with a Go Kit in each car ( Tow car included ). I carry several bottles of water, some dry storage food, a few canned items, flashlight, small radio, first aid, extra medications, a roll of TP, can opener, water purifier, and more that I can't recall at the moment ... all in a fairly small back pack. Should be enough for 3-4 days for one person.
Not sure this is what you had in mind, though.

My cat.

Really, my van kind of IS my go bag. I mean, what are we prepping for, here? A fire that occurs in the rv while you are parked, camping in some remote area?

I don't have a norcold fridge, so that is far, far, down my list of probable events. Possibly ahead of a tsunami, though.

What I do for rv prepping: Keep about 2 weeks of food for me and cat, tools, repair manuals, bear spray, other weapons. Park with an eye towards easy and fast drive-out, keys handy. Watch the weather.

We don't have a go bag as it would depend on where and why and how long as to what we would take. Current location would be tornado threat and we wouldn't have to stay in the underground shelter for long. My purse and our dog, weather radio, cell phone, flashlight and a bottle of water is what we take. Weather radio has hand crank and you can use to do an emergency charge of the cell phone or the radio itself.

I was at an RV rally where the fire department showed us why when they respond to RV fires it's usually too late.

You know that little fire extinguisher that comes with all RV's?

They settle to the bottom so when you need it in an emergency they do NOT work. I most certainly did not know that! We pulled out mine and the fire department discharged it and sure enough it did NOT work. :E

So a little fire that the owner 'could' have put out IF the extinguisher had worked turns into a full blown blaze.

After that little demonstration by the fire department and recommendation to ditch those extinguishers that come with our RV's.
I immediately went out and bought 2 ADULT SIZE fire extinguishers.

One is mounted up front, and one is mounted in the back bedroom

We always kept a "GO" bag near our front door in case of fire - easy to grab. At night we put it in the bedroom ready to toss out the window. We took it with us when our 'home' went in for servicing. We took it in the car when we were out siteseeing, especially while boondocking miles from anywhere. It became a natural thing to move around and ready to grab.

It contained our up-to-date computer backup (another copy was at daughter's), some cash to get us started immediately, Passports, birth certificates, a list with phone #'s for immediate contacts - insurance, excess medications that aren't in our daily pill boxes, and our wallets and cell phones were dropped in each night, etc.

A hidden safe would do no good in a fire...not enough time to access it. RV fires you only have minutes.

ehouk wrote:
We're FT in a MOHO & we don't have one. What type of situations do you prepare for & what's in you Go-Bag?

After hearing about several friends who have had RV fires, we're working on our fire box. Any suggestions for type of fire box & contents??

Thanks

are you referring to a bug out bag?

brdprey wrote:

ehouk wrote:
We're FT in a MOHO & we don't have one. What type of situations do you prepare for & what's in you Go-Bag?

After hearing about several friends who have had RV fires, we're working on our fire box. Any suggestions for type of fire box & contents??

Thanks

are you referring to a bug out bag?

Underwear and a pistol

Different situations.
Go bag.
Rv goes up in smoke, grab a pair of pants and your wallet if possible.
Wth else are you going to salvage? Family momentos?

Bug out bag, complete with the tin foil hat is a completely different story.

If y'all have either, and especially if you move it from room to room with you, turn off the TV, put out the joint cause you're already too paranoid, and go DO something! Anything really to help yourself get back to reality!

Grit dog wrote:
Different situations.


Bug out bag, complete with the tin foil hat is a completely different story.

If y'all have either, and especially if you move it from room to room with you, turn off the TV, put out the joint cause you're already too paranoid, and go DO something! Anything really to help yourself get back to reality!

Odd Fema and the federal government recommend everyone have a 72 hour go bag aka bug out bag. It's not tin foil theory or paranoia. Ours contains essentials, clothing, first aid, coastguard rations, water and something to make shelter. It's like RV insurance, it's there if it's needed.

If we had an RV fire, that bag could sustain us for days.

In Dallas we had a ranger beating on our door to evacuate our campsite as tornados were touching down nearby. We grabbed our go bag and off to the tornado shelter we went. We pulled out a deck of cards from the bag to pass the time. We had lots of questions and comments on the bag and what was in it and how they were going to prepare one.

Mine is 3 bottles of good Scotch and a roll of Duck Tape so when the war starts I can tape my gluteous maximus to my belly and it all gets blown away together.

The Scotch is so I won't give a tinkers dam.

creeper wrote:

Grit dog wrote:
Different situations.


Bug out bag, complete with the tin foil hat is a completely different story.

If y'all have either, and especially if you move it from room to room with you, turn off the TV, put out the joint cause you're already too paranoid, and go DO something! Anything really to help yourself get back to reality!

Odd Fema and the federal government recommend everyone have a 72 hour go bag aka bug out bag. It's not tin foil theory or paranoia. Ours contains essentials, clothing, first aid, coastguard rations, water and something to make shelter. It's like RV insurance, it's there if it's needed.

If we had an RV fire, that bag could sustain us for days.

In Dallas we had a ranger beating on our door to evacuate our campsite as tornados were touching down nearby. We grabbed our go bag and off to the tornado shelter we went. We pulled out a deck of cards from the bag to pass the time. We had lots of questions and comments on the bag and what was in it and how they were going to prepare one.