i’m not sure of the source of this list – but it is incredibly good advice for people in Israel – and maybe Iran as well:

Hello dear tenants and residents:

My name is Idan and I live here in the building – I am a firefighter.

In recent days, we firefighters have been working hard and have been exposed to quite a few buildings that have been destroyed… (destruction sites)

I am attaching a list of some insights from a few days of work, hoping that we will not have to implement them and that we will meet in stuck elevators and barbecues in the attics

Some important conclusions and recommendations for your consideration:

1.⁠ ⁠Leave shoes in the emergency room, ⁠Gd forbid if you are rescued or need to leave on your own, you will not want to go out barefoot, especially as the floor at the site will full of shrapnel and glass.

2.⁠ ⁠Leave a prepared bag in the emergency room with clothes for a day or two, important personal items, passports, money, documents and critical medications, which if you, Gd forbid, need to evacuate, you can take with you. Most people who evacuate are not allowed to return to their apartment until further notice.

3.⁠ ⁠For those with animals, please note that if you evacuate to take with you or report to the rescuers.

4.⁠ ⁠If you leave the house on your own, put a note on the door saying that you left and include a phone number. This will prevent rescuers from breaking into your apartment to see if someone needs rescuing. (Prepare the sign ahead of time)

5.⁠ *Recommendation to each building’s va’ad bayit: establish a list of tenants that includes current phone numbers and the number of tenants in each apartments. It helps a lot to quickly map the building and its residents, and to find out if someone is missing or just at another location.

Gd forbid that we have to implement any of this

May we know better days

Am Yisrael Chai