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This came to me from my bio-weapons expert who studied under Ken Alibek. It is a basic procedure for how to go into and out of your safe room in the event of a bio event.
I’ve considered the possibility that I may have to get OUT of that safe room to perhaps retrieve medicine, shut off utilities, or heaven-forbid, draw someone away from my family.
My method consists of the following. After building the safe room, sealing it, and getting everyone inside, I divide the remaing space into a larger living zone, and a smaller ‘warm’ zone. The warm zone should be easy to seal to facilitate access.
Everything outside the room is a ‘hot zone’. To be more specific, think of an airlock in a spaceship. You want to do a space walk and need to get out. The inside of the ship is the cold zone which leads to a sealed door which opens onto the warm zone.
Once inside, the cold door is re-sealed behind you and at that point you open the door to the outside . In this chamber, you have your Tyvek suit, HANGING UP, for reasons I’ll explain in a moment, your gas mask, a bottle of bleach solution in a spray bottle, roll of duct tape, box of latex (or nitrile) gloves, and an extra gallon of bleach and water to mix it.
Going out, all you have to do is put on the suit, gas mask, and latex gloves, duct tape your wrists and ankles, and place the duct tape roll on one wrist. The reason you do this is so that if you tear your suit while in the hot zone, you can instantly re-seal it.
Coming back in, this procedure must be followed exactly: Both latex gloves come off and you don’t touch anything except the bleach bottle. If you didn’t use latex gloves, you’ll contaminate your bottle. You take the spray bottle and start at the top of your suit on the hood. This works easier if two people go out, so that you can get hard to reach spots, but in a pinch it can be done alone. Working down, you saturate and make sure that no part of your suit is dry, remembering the bottoms or your feet. Once, done, you unzip the suit, let it fall to your ankles, step out, and hang it up with the back towards you, and without touching the back because this part is still ‘hot’. Now you can spray the back. You are almost done.
Retake the spray bottle and mist over the walls and floor and then, making sure the door to the hot zone is closed and sprayed, you open your inner door, enter, and then re-seal it. No door shoud ever be open without the one preceding it being shut and sealed.
This antechamber is also important in that you can use it to decon other occupants if they’ve been exposed, and also decon people who come in from the outside after you’re already in there. It must be insisted upon that those entering remove all clothing and be sprayed with bleach and then rinsed off. Modesty is trivial in this situation and a pair of scrubs will fit just about anyone. These need to be kept in the cold zone so people will just have to turn away while they dress. As for the bleach bath, it need not irritate the skin, because a 10 to 1 water to bleach ratio is extremely effective.
Note from David:
The same concept of “hot”, “warm”, and “cold” areas can be used for a chlorine gas incident or other non-weaponized chemical incidents, except you do not need to use bleach. Depending on the chemical agent, it may or may not make sense to do this. If you have specific chemical threats in your area, you will want to find out the concentrations that are lethal, what kind of mask you need to filter the chemical out, and what you need to have on hand in your “warm” area to neutralize it.
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Thanks,
David Morris
I am 76,saw this BS coming 20 25 years ago. I ask my frend’s all the time,( you armed)some look at me like what he talking about.I try to explain.Most have a weapon of some sort.As for being ready THEY DONT HAVE A CLUE.Rice Beans,Med Kit, Tape,Plastic. I all so made a rig to turn my pressure canner in to a still. Thank for the info,i hope to jone.
David
Thanks for the info. It is in my folder now!! Keep them coming.
Bob
GOOD STUFF THANKS BUT IF I COULD ONLY GET MY WIFE IN THE BALLGAME.
Manny,
Thanks for your post. You may find some good information here: http://secretsofurbansurvival.com/showthread.php?58-RE-Getting-Spouces-on-Board
Feel free to join the forum and get involved in the discussions.
Evan
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Wow this is some good info I am going to join asap! This is info you need to know for when the SHTF !
I really like this info, sounds like a scene from a 24 terrorist chemical weapons or WMD thing. I love it, my fiancee lives in new york so I worry about her and her family everyday. WIll join your site cuz thier safefty and my family is all I think of. Keep up the great work
Excellent stuff! I’m always thinkin’ I have OCD when it comes to germs and what-not, so it’s good that I’m not the only one. **SUGGESTION** For all of your great articles, perhaps maybe you could include a site or two on where to get the not-so-mass-produced supplies, like a chemical suit for example. I, personally, know where to find such items, but maybe some other readers don’t have the internet know-how to find things of that nature.
Great info. on biological incidents! I want to say “warfare” but I prefer not to think in those lines, even though the possibility is there. I carry a product that is used to kill all virus and bacteria on surfaces and within the body. It is made with natural ingredients, no chemicals! You inhale it to treat the lungs and spray it up your nose to clear out heavy metals and any virus or bacteria there as well. Used daily it builds the immune system and keeps the body clear of the remnants of chemtrails and such. So in the event we have to quarantine our selves, we can stay well, avoiding a pandemic or biological incident. If interested in more info. on this product, feel free to e-mail me, minerkat@msn.com
Thanks to David for the great article!
While a Corpsman in the Navy I had to go through a five day course in chemical/biological attack preparation. The use of bleach and how to disrobe is almost identical as presented here. Keep up the good work and I hope to join for the full 12 course plan.
I AM REALLY ENJOYING THIS COURSE AND WILL PROBABLY SIGN UP FOR THE OTHER ONE. JUST A QUICK CHECK ON THE FINANCES FIRST. IT’S COMMENDABLE THAT YOU ARE HELPING PEOPLE TO BECOME MORE SELF-SUFFICIENT AND SELF-RELIABLE. IF ONLY MORE PEOPLE WOULD WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE AND THE ROSES, WHILE THEY ARE STILL AROUND TO BE SMELLED. ALSO WHILE THEY ARE STILL AROUND TO DO THE SMELLING. MANY WON’T BE, SORRY TO SAY.
I think one should always proactively obtain a supply of ciprofloxacin, the antibiotic, now available generically, used to treat Anthrax, as well as autoinjectible atropine used to counter “nerve gas” attacks. Additionally, a supply of IM Ativan (lorazepam) should be considered to help control seizures that could result from a biological attack, e.g. “nerve gas”. A compassionate family physician should be more than willing to prescribe and help you obtain these and instruct you on their use in the unfortunate circumstance they are needed.
This is somewhat the same as the pilot decon I did in the AF. We didn’t use bleach but vermiculite. We did it just as you said, entry area or warm zone and decon into a safe/cold area. We also had an area with a shower leading into the cold area. The shower area was free of airborn threats. The whole set up was over pressurized by a ventilation system so that outside contaminates could not seep into the shelter.
You said nothing about the contaminated air that you brought in from the hot zone to the warm zone! If the air is contaminated in the warm zone since you just came in from the hot zone you can spray all the bleach you want but that will not decontaminate the air your about to let in to the cold zone when you open the door to hug your wife and family!
liked the info we all need to be prepaired for anything that may happen thank you.
Wow! I too have been so enjoying all these mini courses. This one does overwhelm me a bit. I have gone to many web sights to look at chemical suits but have no idea what would be an appropriate and possible cost purchase. There are so many brands and kinds of suits available. Some would be very difficult to afford for the average family. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks for all the fantastic information. I would love to continue to receive any and all updates.
So how does the avg person construct or use the current structures etc. Not everyone can or wants to build a “fallout” shelter in their backyard!!! Not many people have a three room set up that can be made structurally air tight etc?/ When you go from Hot to warm…the contaminants come with you including the air. How is the air treated?? You can not get out of your “suit” and decon if the air is still hot etc…I am having a difficult time uinderstanding the practicality of the info…when there are too many unanswered questions…
I am getting a lot of good ideas from your articles.
Thanks….Rusty