Sheltering, Duct-Tape, Plastic wrap links

[Stewart Farber <farbersa@optonline.net>]

Radsafe:

The link below provides a comment on what Israel has recommended to its people 

regarding sheltering in the event of a chemical of biological weapons attack. It 

provides a several links to an Israeli [english language] website on sheltering. 

The article also notes 3 very unfortunate deaths due to asphixiation in Israel of 

a mother and 2 children sleeping in a plastic sealed room due to combustion fume 

buildup. Worth looking at, and thinking about.



Stewart Farber, MS Public Health

Air Pollution Control

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http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/newswires/2003_3_18.html#4



from above [in part -links can be seen by clicking on above hyperlink]:



Israeli Response: Israeli Residents Directed to Seal Rooms



The Israeli Home Front Command today urged Israeli residents to seal rooms to

prepare for a possible chemical or biological attack from Iraq, Ha’aretz reported 

today (see GSN, March 4).



The probability of an Iraqi attack on Israel, however, is very low, according to 

Israeli intelligence reports.



The announcements came after much debate yesterday among senior officials.



“If this is how things are run before the campaign begins, I shudder to think 

what will happen in a real case if, heaven forbid, a missile does fall on us,” 

said a military source (Amos Harel, Ha’aretz, March 18).



Information for sealing rooms and guarding against attacks is available on the 

command’s Web site (Jerusalem Post, March 18).



Sealed Room Deaths



Meanwhile, a mother and two of her children suffocated when they slept in a 

sealed room adjacent to a coal-fueled heater, Israeli police reported yesterday.



Fearing Iraqi missile attacks, the family had begun routinely sleeping in a 

sealed room, a police spokesman said.



The family’s father and two other children survived (Associated Press/San 

Francisco Chronicle, March 17).

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