Emergency Kit is also known as a survival kit and a package of basic tools and supplies which are important and serve as an aid to survival in an emergency. It is needed to provide an initial assessment and also to manage life-threatening conditions before professional care is rendered by medical personnel.

Interestingly, an emergency kit contains critical things that people prepare and hope never to use because, in the state of an emergency, people are often uncoordinated to think about or put together important items that will be needed to salvage the situation.

Here are some important items you can put together in your own emergency kit

• Water (Three days’ supply of water)

• Three days’ supply of non-perishable foods

• Flashlights

• Batteries

• Radio

• First aid kit

• Whistle to signal for help

• Prescription medications

• Battery operated or solar cellphone charger

Since the focus of this article is on flashlights, I will be describing why a flashlight is very important in your emergency kit.

A flashlight is a very important item to have in your kit because it helps to enhance vision by illuminating the area. It is vital to have the ability to see. You will definitely need a proper perspective of whatever area you find yourself in, therefore, a flashlight is important to get you and others around you out of danger. Since many people are often kept safe and might never have found themselves trapped in any form of an emergency situation, in a faraway place, you might not know how this works. This is why you need to have a proper glimpse and learn about how to prepare for the possibility of an emergency happening.

As it has been earlier explained, emergencies can happen anywhere, at any point of the day or night—during your travels or even move within the city. In addition to other factors such as bad weather, the condition of your car and other factors, an emergency can cause you to be stranded far away from the help you desire to get. This is why thorough preparation is required; an emergency kit is required around all the time, to make you prepared for any eventualities and help you out of the emergency as soon as you can.

Emergency occurrences cannot be predicted since they can happen anywhere at any time. This is why it is important to have a well-prepared emergency kit stored in different places—such as your car, trucks, RV’s etc. If you like outdoor sports or adventures, it will also be productive to have an emergency kit in your sling bag. It is also not out of place to have an emergency kit kept safely in a place at work.

There you have it! The importance of having a flashlight incorporated in your emergency tool kit. Prepare for survival all the time. Your life is worth saving, isn’t it?