In the general sense, emergency survival and wilderness survival priorities and preparedness are the same for most situations, although there are many situations and circumstances that don't conform to the general rule. Shelter, fire, water, and food are the physical elements that you will need in any emergency survival or wilderness survival situation. Above all is your mindset! Your first survival priority is thinking clearly with a positive attitude "I will survive" panic is a road to disaster. Emergency assessment! Is your second survival priority to assess the situation. Are you in immediate danger? Get out of harm's way. Injured or sick? Find a safe place to rest or wait for emergency rescue, and if you have injuries tend to them as well as you can. When you are in a space that isn't visible use something to indicate that you are there, a makeshift flag, or maybe an article of clothing. Your third survival priority is to improve your situation. Is your shelter sufficient? Can you make a fire? Do you have safe water and food? Ask yourself these questions and as you do, make improvements and keep a survivor's attitude. Emergency priorities depend on the nature of the situation: medical, fire, natural disaster. Remove yourself and or others out of harm's way as soon as possible. Emergency communication is a priority, the telephone and phone numbers are the most obvious but might not be available. Other ways to communicate with emergency services workers include making a sign signal fire, or noise, bang on something. If you have survived a disaster and are still in need of assistance. Make it easy for emergency response teams to find you, from the ground or from the air. In a wilderness emergency survival situation either lost or stranded if you don't know how far or especially what direction to travel, make yourself at home (a base camp). Once you've decided where to shelter for the night, make that your temporary home. Gather what you can to improve your situation, while you explore the surrounding area. Travel in straight lines, to begin with, when you can see something useful from your temporary home go get it. Keep your temporary home in eyesight, once you have gotten familiar with your surroundings, after traveling several straight lines keeping your base (temporary home) in eyesight, you can travel in circles around your base keeping it within eyesight until you are familiar with a larger area. Every time you travel, gather anything useful to improve your situation. Using this method you might find a better base, a road, a trail, water, food, always gathering firewood. If you decide to travel, use the sun to travel east in the morning, west in the afternoon. Make traveling in a straight line a priority line up trees or other landmarks something in the distance works well, to travel a straight path. If you find a landmark in the distance, it's also good to find another landmark that will be behind you, use it if you decide to return to your base. Mark trees, pile rocks, leave breadcrumbs or other markers along your path, that rescuers or you can follow.
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