Three gifts for emergency preparedness

Here are a few emergency preparedness items we've come across recently.

A volcanic grill

SPRINGVILLE, Utah — Here's a Christmas idea that's not hot.

The Volcano Grill — a lightweight, collapsible, emergency campstove — will cook the casserole, boil the soup, even bake the bread, but the exterior stays cool enough to touch.

So it's the perfect stove to take camping or to keep in your emergency storage supplies.

Then, when the meal is done, it collapses to a 5-inch height and slides into a convenient carry-along bag.

The Volcano cooks with charcoal, wood or propane gas. The Kevlar lid turns it into an oven.

"With the Volcano you can cook a hot meal every day for a year using only 15 bags of charcoal. It's very efficient and durable. It's convenient for camping, for tailgate parties, for emergency cooking," said David B. Porter, president of the Volcano II Corporation. "It's perfect for no-fire zones, for Boy Scout outings, for family picnics."

The Volcano is designed to use with a 12-inch wok if desired or a Dutch oven that can be set right into it.

With one tug, the stove is pulled up into working shape. Air is pulled into the holes cut into the heavy-guage steel walls and forced upward, so the interior warms, and the outside and underside stays cooler. The charcoal burns hot and slowly.

"We've seen hot briquets three hours later," Porter said.

"This is a grill you're going to use," Porter said, "so in an emergency, you'll already be familiar with it."

Volcano II grills are sold at Emergency Essentials, Sportsman's Warehouse, Macey's and through the website www.volcanogrills.com. The grills retail for about $150.

 

For Christmas: Give the gift of peace of mind

OREM, Utah — It's not a bird or a plane.

It's the SuperPail — designed to rescue a family in any kind of a disaster, an ideal Christmas gift for the Mormon family intent on storing a year's food supply.

Six-gallon SuperPails hold the equivalent of eight No. 10 storage cans, and they stack.