UK urges 3-day emergency stockpile.
The advice is similar to a recommendation issued by the European Commission last year, which encouraged people across the European Union to maintain a 72-hour emergency kit containing essentials such as food, water, cash and power banks. Ministers have announced a new wildfire response plan that includes deploying military aircraft to support firefighting efforts.
The advice was reinforced on Friday through the government’s newly launched “Be Ready” campaign, which recommends storing bottled water and non-perishable food to help families cope if essential services are disrupted. It’s about just taking sensible measures to have enough in the house to tide you over should there be a difficult situation,” he said. The government says the household guidance is intended to help people manage temporary disruptions caused by events such as war, cyberattacks or natural disasters.
The UK government has urged households to keep three days of food and water at home, citing recent cyber disruptions and increasingly frequent extreme weather as reasons to prepare for emergencies. He stressed that the guidance was not intended to encourage panic buying. “It’s not about panic buying… Alongside cyber risks, the government is responding to extreme weather, including storms and a summer marked by record heat, drought and wildfires.