Apartment and High-Rise Pack

A calm, practical preparedness guide for people who live above the ground floor.

Know your building. Know your way out. Know your neighbors.

TWO PDFs IN ONE DOWNLOAD

- Quick Pack (13 pages): the one-page plan, the checklists and the sheets to fill in. Open this one first.

- Full Guide (148 pages): the reasons, worked examples and sources.

WHAT YOU GET

- A Building Information Sheet in three parts that records your stairs, alarms, sprinklers, elevators, generator, shutoffs, contacts and meeting places.

- A Floor-Plan Exit Plan with an apartment sketch, a pre-printed corridor strip for Stair A and Stair B, a helpers page and an alarm and practice log.

- A Building Safety Questions page for landlords and managers, written to hand in, plus tables of good answers and red flags and a private follow-up sheet.

- A clear stay-or-leave guide for fire that explains why advice differs between buildings, with a scenario table you can match to your own situation.

- Step-by-step fire actions: what to do when the alarm sounds, what to do if you cannot get out, burns, kitchen fires and how to use an extinguisher.

- A Personal Evacuation Plan and a Practice-Walk Timing Log for children, older adults, pets and anyone who cannot use stairs, with window-fall and stair-carrying cautions.

- A small-space storage plan with three tiers (3, 7 and 14 days), a water weight table, a seven-zone placement map, a no-flush toilet plan and go-bag, bed-kit and stay-box checklists.

- A Renter Paperwork and Insurance Sheet that covers lease clauses, renters insurance questions, flood and earthquake cover, and how to document your belongings.

- A Neighbor and Helper List, a Who Checks on Whom grid, scripts for the first conversation, a door-card idea and privacy rules.

- Power outage, heat and winter planning for tall buildings: a first-48-hours timeline, stuck-elevator steps, a food safety table, heat illness signs and an Outage and Heat Plan worksheet.

- Shelter-in-place, earthquake and flood steps matched to each hazard, plus a Shelter Room Plan for your home.

- A six-month review calendar, tick logs and a 12-week starter plan that keep your plan current, plus short notes where UK practice differs.

WHO IT IS FOR

For people living in apartments, flats and high-rise buildings, including upper floors, renters and older residents.

GOOD TO KNOW

- Print it, or keep it on your phone or tablet. US Letter, prints on A4 too.

- Digital download: read the free sample first. We cannot refund a guide once it has been downloaded. If the file is faulty, will not open or is not what we described, email hello@afternormal.co and we will fix it, replace it or refund you.

- General educational information, not medical, legal or emergency advice.