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Apartment and High-Rise Pack
A calm, practical preparedness guide for people who live above the ground floor
Know your building. Know your way out. Know your neighbors.
- Quick Pack (13 pages) + Full Guide (148 pages)
- Instant download
- US Letter, prints on A4 too
- Worksheets you fill in
- Plain English
$9.99 one-time, instant download
- Secure checkout by Payhip
- Download link on screen and by email
- Read the free sample first
- No refund once downloaded
Who it is for
For people living in apartments, flats and high-rise buildings, including upper floors, renters and older residents.
What you get
- A Building Information Sheet in three parts that records your stairs, alarms, sprinklers, elevators, generator, shutoffs, contacts and meeting places.
- A Floor-Plan Exit Plan with an apartment sketch, a pre-printed corridor strip for Stair A and Stair B, a helpers page and an alarm and practice log.
- A Building Safety Questions page for landlords and managers, written to hand in, plus tables of good answers and red flags and a private follow-up sheet.
- A clear stay-or-leave guide for fire that explains why advice differs between buildings, with a scenario table you can match to your own situation.
- Step-by-step fire actions: what to do when the alarm sounds, what to do if you cannot get out, burns, kitchen fires and how to use an extinguisher.
- A Personal Evacuation Plan and a Practice-Walk Timing Log for children, older adults, pets and anyone who cannot use stairs, with window-fall and stair-carrying cautions.
- A small-space storage plan with three tiers (3, 7 and 14 days), a water weight table, a seven-zone placement map, a no-flush toilet plan and go-bag, bed-kit and stay-box checklists.
- A Renter Paperwork and Insurance Sheet that covers lease clauses, renters insurance questions, flood and earthquake cover, and how to document your belongings.
- A Neighbor and Helper List, a Who Checks on Whom grid, scripts for the first conversation, a door-card idea and privacy rules.
- Power outage, heat and winter planning for tall buildings: a first-48-hours timeline, stuck-elevator steps, a food safety table, heat illness signs and an Outage and Heat Plan worksheet.
- Shelter-in-place, earthquake and flood steps matched to each hazard, plus a Shelter Room Plan for your home.
- A six-month review calendar, tick logs and a 12-week starter plan that keep your plan current, plus short notes where UK practice differs.
What is in it
- Know Your BuildingEvery choice in this guide depends on how your building is built and run. This section shows you how to find the answers and gives you a Building Information Sheet to fill in.
- Your Landlord, Your Lease and Your InsuranceIf you rent, other people make many of the safety decisions in your building. This section gives you a ready list of questions, a plain way to ask them, and the insurance questions that surprise most renters.
- Fire Safety FirstThis is the core of the guide. It gets your alarms working, your escape plan drawn and practiced, and your decisions made before a fire starts, so you can act calmly in the first two minutes.
- Getting Out from Upper Floors: Children, Older Adults, Pets and Mobility LimitsSome people and animals cannot simply walk down many flights of stairs fast. This section shows who helps, how they help, what they use, and how to practice until the plan works.
- Water, Food and a Kit in a Small SpaceIn an apartment, space is the limit, and water is the heavy part. This section gives you a plan for how much to store, where it goes, what it weighs and how to keep it fresh.
- Neighbors and Building CommunityThe people on your floor are the closest help you have. This section gives you a simple, low-pressure way to set up who checks on whom, with scripts, a door sign, floor captains and privacy rules.
- Power Outages, Heat and Winter in a High-RiseWhen the power fails in a tall building, more than the lights go out. This section shows you what to ask, what to do in the first 48 hours, how to keep food and medicine safe, and when to leave for somewhere better.
- Shelter in Place, Earthquake and FloodSometimes the safest move is to stay inside, and the right way to stay depends on the hazard. This section gives you steps for each one, with notes for upper floors.
- After the Emergency, and Keeping Your Plan AliveThis section tells you what to do when the emergency is over, in the right order. It then gives you a simple calendar so your alarms, water, kit and lists stay current for years.
Read a free sample
This is the opening of the guide, exactly as it appears in the PDF. Download the free sample PDF (4 pages: the cover, the one-page plan and a first taste).
Part 1
Know Your Building
Every choice in this guide depends on how your building is built and run. This section shows you how to find the answers and gives you a Building Information Sheet to fill in.
Start here, before anything else
Should you leave or stay? Take the stairs or wait? What happens when the power fails? The answers depend on your building. A new tower and an older one can be very different inside.
Most of us never learn these things. Nobody tells us, and we never ask. You can fix that in a week. Do the floor walk in one evening. Have one short talk with your manager. Then fill in the sheet at the end of this section.
You do not need to be an expert. You are only collecting answers and writing them down.
$9.99 one-time, instant download
- Secure checkout by Payhip
- Download link on screen and by email
- Read the free sample first
- No refund once downloaded
Questions
What exactly do I get?
Two PDFs in one download. The Quick Pack (13 pages) is the short version: the one-page plan, the checklists and the sheets to fill in and keep. The Full Guide (148 pages) has the reasons, worked examples and everything else. Open the Quick Pack first. Both are laid out for US Letter paper. You print them, or read them on a tablet or computer. There is nothing physical to wait for.
How do I get it after I pay?
Payment is handled by Payhip, a payment service for digital products. As soon as it goes through, you see a page with your download link, and the same link is emailed to you. This website never sees your card details.
Can I print it?
Yes. It is made for printing: big type, plenty of space to write, and worksheets you fill in by hand. Print the whole thing, or only the pages you need. Print at 100% size on US Letter (it also prints fine on A4).
Is it based on real sources?
Yes. Every instruction traces to an official source such as Ready.gov and FEMA, the CDC, the National Weather Service, the American Red Cross, the US Department of Energy and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The sources are listed at the end, with tags next to the items they support. It was fact-checked and safety-reviewed before publication. It is still general information, not professional advice, so check anything critical with your local authorities.
Is it just the free plan on a PDF?
No. The free personal plan gives you a checklist and your top priorities. The guides go further: decision rules, schedules, scenario walkthroughs and worksheets you fill in, written for one situation in depth.
Can I get a refund?
Read the free sample and the full contents list first, so you know what you are buying. Because this is a digital download, we cannot refund it once you have downloaded it. If you have not downloaded it yet, email hello@afternormal.co within 14 days and you will be refunded. If the file is faulty, will not open or is not what we described, email us and we will fix it, replace it or refund you. See the terms for the details.
Will I get updates?
Official guidance changes. If we revise this guide you will be able to download the new edition from the same link.