The WaterBOB is a 10 mil food-grade plastic bathtub liner water reservior that contains a siphon pump and can keep drinking water fresh for up to six weeks. It is available at the American Red Cross Polk County Chapter for $35.
The WaterBOB is a 10 mil food-grade plastic bathtub liner water reservior that contains a siphon pump and can keep drinking water fresh for up to six weeks. It is available at the American Red Cross Polk County Chapter for $35.
A gift from your Red Cross keeps giving to those who use it.
This season, your Polk County American Red Cross has ideas that can save a life and support local Red Cross Programs and Services.
The following items are available immediately. For prices and more information, call (863) 294-5941 or e-mail either linda@polkredcross.org or dbermudez@polkredcross.org.
Emergency Radios
In any emergency, you need an AM/FM/Weather Band radio, a flashlight, and a cell phone charger. This radio combines all three along with a solar panel and hand crank to keep the device’s battery pack constantly charged. Never be in the dark (literally or figuratively) again.
A Family Guide to First Aid and Emergency Preparedness (w/DVD)
Knowing How to manage medical emergencies and disaster situations is a family affair. A family guide to first aid and emergency preparedness takes a positive approach to learning—-fun interactive activities get the whole family involved, helping children respond to emergencies confidently. Your family can be smarter, better prepared and safer.
WaterBOB™
We all have been told to fill a bathtub with water during a disaster, but only for bathing, Keep drinking water in your tub with the WaterBOB™, a 10 mil food-grade plastic bathtub liner water reservoir. The WaterBOB™ can keep drinking water fresh for up to six weeks by keeping it enclosed, away from airborne particles and from bathtub soap film. Just insert it in your bathtub, fill it, and draw water using a built-in siphon pump.
First Aid Kits
Various sizes and prices from a portable $20 kit for home, car, office, or boat, to $6 kits for travel, to pocket-size $3 kits for personal emergencies. Also ask about our $10 Babysitting First Aid kit, which in addition to basic emergency medical supplies includes a penlight, first aid instruction card, and emergency contact notebook and pen.
With an American Red Cross First Aid Kit, you’ll always be prepared for emergencies.
Babysitting guide
For youth ages 11-15. Our babysitting guide will help direct youth on such skills as safe play, age-appropriate games, and what to do in an emergency.
Give your children the tools they need to be a great babysitter.
(Also ask about our Babysitting Boot Camp, with classes available over Christmas break)
Pet First Aid
Pet First Aid/CPR shows you how to identify symptoms of common ailments and emergencies, gives tips on maintaining pets’ health and well-being, and provides instructions for creating a pet first aid kit.
Red Cross Class Registration or Gift Certificate
Give the gift of life-saving training when you register or give a gift certificate to register for an American Red Cross Health & Safety Class. Contact your local Red Cross for scheduled classes.
By purchasing these items as holiday gifts for your loved ones, you give twice, or more. You not only give the gift of life-saving techniques and supplies, you support your local Red Cross programs and services that benefit the residents of Polk County, and anyone aided by Red Cross emergency skills training.
Your Red Cross always provides free disaster assistance as a gift to the community, made possible by donations of time and money from the American people, as well as by purchases of Red Cross supplies and emergency skills training.
Give from the Red Cross, a gift that keeps on giving.
