KEEPFIRE

When the power, water, and supply lines stop, you need clear answers fast, and then a plan for everything after.

KEEPFIRE is a 362-page field reference that takes your household from getting through the first three days to running its own water, food, heat, and power for the long haul. It is organized the way a crisis unfolds: it starts with what kills fastest, then builds the renewable systems that keep a family going.

No hype, no fear-selling, and no gear catalog. You get practical steps, clean tables, and diagrams you can use. Safety-critical numbers follow published guidance from the U.S. EPA, USDA, CDC, WHO, FEMA, and U.S. Army field manuals.

• Mindset and the first 72 hours: priorities, the stay-or-go decision, and a family emergency plan
• Water: finding, rain catchment, filtering, boiling, EPA bleach dosing by the drop, storage, and wells
• Food storage and preservation: calorie math, pantry rotation, USDA-tested canning with altitude tables, dehydrating, root cellars
• Growing food and small livestock: calorie-focused gardens, soil, compost, seed saving, chickens, rabbits, goats
• Foraging, hunting, trapping, and fishing: legal basics, identification discipline, safe handling
• Shelter, heat, and fire: fire lays, safe wood heat, insulation, and carbon-monoxide safety
• Off-grid energy: solar sizing worksheet, batteries, inverters, generators, and safe transfer switches
• Sanitation and hygiene: latrines, bucket and composting toilets, greywater, soap making
• First aid: kit lists, wounds, burns, fractures, heat and cold illness, the WHO oral rehydration recipe
• Security and community: awareness, lawful home hardening, barter, mutual-aid groups, de-escalation
• Communications and navigation: radio basics and licensing, map and compass, celestial navigation
• Tools, skills, and repair: essential toolkit, sharpening, sewing, rope and knots
• The long-term homestead: zone layout, seasonal calendar, skills checklist

Appendices: master checklists for 72 hours, 30 days, and 1 year; quick-reference tables for water, bleach dosing, calories, canning by altitude, solar sizing, and planting by zone; glossary; sources; and 13 fill-in planning worksheets.

Who it's for: families who want to ride out a week-long outage calmly, homeowners planning backup water, power, and heat, new homesteaders, and anyone organizing neighbors into a mutual-aid group.

For educational purposes only. Not medical, legal, or electrical advice. Follow local laws and use licensed professionals for electrical and gas work.