Where Is the Fire Extinguisher, and Why Am I Only Asking Now? - How to Prepare Your Home for Emergencies, Power Outages, and Other Surprises Before You Actually Need Plan B
By Max Paradox
Length5h 7m
About this audiobook
The lights go out. Your phone has fourteen percent battery. The torch is on the phone, the useful numbers are on the phone and apparently your entire emergency strategy is also on the phone. Somewhere, you own a power bank. Whether it is charged belongs to a more philosophical discussion.
Where Is the Fire Extinguisher, and Why Am I Only Asking Now? is a practical guide to preparing your home for disruptions before they demand your full attention. Max Paradox explores power cuts, interrupted water supplies, heating problems, alarms, severe weather, lost internet access and the ordinary ways one failure can create several more.
The book begins with understanding the home and the people who live in it. What matters most if power or water stops? Where are the essential items? Who knows how to find the relevant information? A useful plan considers children, older relatives, animals and differing needs.
You will explore sensible supplies, accessible equipment, reliable information, shared responsibilities and arrangements for leaving home when staying is no longer safe. Buying an item is only one part of preparation. Knowing where it is, understanding its intended use and checking that it remains usable matter too.
Written with dry humour and familiar domestic scenes, this is for readers who want a workable Plan B without making emergency planning their entire personality. The aim is having fewer basic decisions left to invent in the dark.
This publication was prepared using tools that support the creative process, including artificial intelligence solutions. The final concept, structure and editing are the responsibility of the author.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 4.6 (167)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon
GenreOther
Length5 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 16, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRO
2Chapter 1 - Don't Prepare for the Apocalypse
3Chapter 2 - Your Home Needs an Owner's Manual
4Chapter 3 - One Failure Likes to Bring Friends
5Chapter 4 - Don't Fix the World in the First Minute
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6Chapter 5 - Stock What You’ll Actually Use
7Chapter 6 - Buying It Does Not Train You
8Chapter 7 - Don’t Be the Only Person Who Knows
9Chapter 8 - Sometimes the Safe Plan Is to Leave
10Chapter 9 - When the House Goes Quiet
11Chapter 10 - When the Tap and the Heat Both Quit
12Chapter 11 - When the Alarm Means It
13Chapter 12 - Weather Does Not Check Your Calendar
14Chapter 13 - When the Internet Goes Quiet
15Chapter 14 - Switch to Minimum Mode
16Chapter 15 - When Plan B Has a Bad Day
17Chapter 16 - Your Home Does Not End at the Front Door
18Chapter 17 - Don’t Make Big Decisions on Empty
19Chapter 18 - Plans Age Quietly
20Chapter 19 - Practice Before Life Does It for You
21Chapter 20 - Ready Enough
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