How To Set Up A Fallout Shelter At Home General Information or a but is better than none, and save If an enemy attack should occur when you aie at home, and you have made no pre planned family shelter, any protection might advance shelter preparations, you still might be able to improvise a shelter either inside or your life. outside house. In a time of the radio broadcasts tell whether your emergency, may you The best to a shelter would be the basement or storm cellar, if your you liavc time to a shelter or should take cover place improvise improvise immediately. home has one. An improvised shelter probably would not give you as much protection as a permanent Using The Crawl space Under A House Some homes without basements have "crawl space" between the fust floor and the ground underneath the house. If you tave this space under your house and if the house is set on foundation walls, rather than on pillars you can improvise fallout protection for your family there. Kkst, fct access to the crawl space through the floor or through the outside foundation walL As the location for your shelter, select a aawl-space area that is under the center of the house, as far away from the outside foundation walls as possible. Arouad the Klectcd shelter area, pbee shielding material preferably bricks or blocks, or containers filled with earth or and from the ground level up to the first floor of the house, so that the shielding material forms the "walls" of your shelter area. On the floor above, pbee other shielding material to form a "roof* for the shelter area. If time permits, dig out more earth and make the shelter area deeper, so you can stand erect or at least sit up in it. Improvising Ground Floor Shelter An Outside Trench Shelter If your home has no basement or storm cellar (and no crawl space that is surrounded by foundation Dig an L-shaped trcnch, about 4 feel deep and 3 feet wide. One side of the L, which walls up to the first floor), you can get some limited fallout protection by improvising a fallout shelter will be the shelter area, should be long enough to accommodate all family members. The on the first or ground floor of your house. However, this type of shelter probably would not give you other side of the L can be shorter, since its purpose is to serve as an entrance-way and to nearly as much protection as the other type of improvised shelters described in this section. reduce the amount of radiation getting into the shelter area. Use an inner haU, inner room or large clothes closet on the ground floor, away from outside walls Cover the entire trench with lumber (or with house doors that have been taken off and windows. their hinges), except for about 2 feet on the short side of the L, to provide access and ventilation. I On top of the lumber or doors, pile earth I to 2 feet high, or cover them with other With doors, furniture and appliances, I shielding material. phis stacks of other shielding material, If necessary, support or "shore up" the walls of the trench, as well as the lumber or you can create an enclosure large enough j doors, so they will not collapse. to lire in for a short time. If possible, u* boxes filled with sand or earth as shielding material, and fill drawers and trunks with and or earth. If there is not room for the shielding material in the limited space of a closet 1 or small room, you can pbee the material on the other sides of the walls, or on the floor overhead.

Lean-To Shelter Boats Used As Improvised Shelter If no better fallout protection is available, a boat with an enclosed cabin could be used. However, in a shallow lo Dig ditch. 6 inches deep and 6 inches wide, parallel 4 feet from the outside addition to emergency supplies such as food, drinking water and a battery-powered radio, you should wall of your house. have aboard the items you would need (a broom, bucket, or pump-and-hose) to sucep off or flush off Remove the heaviest doors from the house. Place the bottoms of the doors in the ditch any fallout particles that might collect on the boat. (so they won't slip), and lean the doors against the wall of the house. The boat should be anchored or cruised slowly at least 200 feet off-shore, where the water is at least On the doors, pile 12 lo 18 inches of earth or sand. Stack or pile other shielding 5 feet deep. This distance from shore would protect you from radioactive fallout particles that had material at the sides of the doors, and also on the ether side of the house wall (to protect fallen on the nearby land. A 5-foot depth would absorb the radiation from particles falling into the radiation from that water and settling on the bottom. you against coming direction). If drift down on the stay inside the cabin most of the time. Go outside now and make the shelter area out more earth inside it. Also particles boat, If possible, deeper by digging dig then, and sweep or flush off any particles that have collected on the boat. some other shallow ditches, to allow rain water to drain away.

-FIRF. HAZARDS- Continued from page 7 or house doors, will readily from any kind Don't place papers your by closing ignite on radiators, or near windows and Venetian blinds. II of a soaked with oil or magazines spark. Rags or Don't allow windows are not fitted with turpentine sometimes catch fire stoves fireplaces. inside themselves (this is called lamp shades to touch electric Venetian blinds, oover the by combustion), and bulbs. or outside of the windows with spontaneous be left aluminum foil, or coat the glass therefore should never These special fire precautions with whitewash, household around. in a time of lying should be taken cleaning powder,or even mud. Check heating plants. Many nuclear emergency, especially if 2. Unless local authorities are started home fires by faulty you plan to use a home shelter: advise otherwise, fill buckets, furnaces and stoves, crackcd or and other containers rusted furnace pipes, and sooty I. Keep the intense heat rays of bathtubs chimneys. nuclear explosions from entering Continued on page 9