Evacuation
Everything you need for the first few days. Nothing you’ll never use.
Thirteen things, chosen by a retired Marine Corps Master Sergeant who spent ten years working out what several hundred people needed to carry — and packed by hand, one bag at a time.
Ships from San Diego · includes the S.A.F.E. Digital Vault, 16 documents and a 92-card readiness game
Thirteen things. We publish what every one of them costs.
You can buy every physical item in this kit yourself for about $332 — we list each component and its retail price, free, no email. The gap is the judgement: which filter is rated for parasites, how many calories a person actually needs, whether a five-year bar and a twenty-year bar are the same purchase.
They are not, and the label won’t tell you.
50L pack
22 × 16 × 10 in. Packs out around 22 lb — carryable up a stairwell by the person whose name is on it.
15 ration packs
7,125 kcal. Twenty-year shelf life; most emergency food manages five.
16 water pouches
Sealed, five-year life, US Coast Guard approved. They survive a hot car. Bottles don’t.
Water filter straw
Removes 99.9% of microbacteria. This is your actual water supply — see below.
Rhino Rescue first aid kit
Hard-shell waterproof case, double-zipped, carabiner. Cuts, burns, a bad fall, no quick trip to urgent care.
LED flashlight
Battery powered, and deliberately so. It is the third light in the bag — the radio and the power bank each carry one and both recharge. This one runs on cells. No single point of failure.
20,000 mAh power bank
Solar, hand crank or USB in. Three cable types or wireless out. Carries its own light.
Emergency radio
Solar, crank and battery, NOAA band. Three ways to power the one thing that tells you what is happening.
Fire starter kit
Ferro rod and tinder. Works wet, works cold, never runs out of fuel.
Work gloves
Carbon-knuckle, not gardening gloves. Everything after a disaster has an edge on it.
21-in-1 multi-tool
Pliers, wire cutter, knife, saw, screwdrivers, file, bottle and can opener — folded into one thing you can work with one hand.
2 mylar blankets
Weigh nothing, cost nothing, and are the difference on a cold night. A third is inside the medical kit.
OP patch
So you can find your bag in somebody else’s pile.
That’s what three days of water for two people actually weighs.
Ready.gov says one gallon per person per day, for drinking and sanitation. Three days for two is six gallons. Nobody carries that out of a building, and any kit implying otherwise is selling you arithmetic that doesn’t work.
Sixteen sealed pouches get you moving. The filter is what you actually drink from on day two.
The bag is the part you feel first.
50 litres, padded mesh back panel, MOLLE webbing front and sides, compression straps, and a waist belt that takes the weight off your shoulders. Try one loaded before you trust it — we’d rather you did.
There is no production line.
Every bag is checked against the same list by the person who chose what goes in it. Twenty years in the Marine Corps — ten infantry, ten logistics — and the back half of that spent working out what several hundred people needed to carry, then living with what happened when he got it wrong.
That’s deliberate, not a stopgap. It’s why he can tell you what’s inside without looking it up.
A state agency bought these.
The Kansas Department of Labor ordered evacuation chairs, staff training, and a run of Essential+ Go-Bags — then came back for more, and bought DrewOS to run the whole readiness record. Packed by hand in San Diego, shipped to Topeka.
Kansas DOL bought once, then bought again — and bought DrewOS, our operating system for emergency managers and operators.
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, certified by the SBA.
Every component, every retail price, free. A standard you can’t reach without buying from us isn’t a standard.
$399, packed and ready.
Or build it yourself for about $332 from our list. Either way you get there — we’d rather you got there.
| Food | 15 packs · 7,125 kcal |
| Water | 16 pouches + filter straw |
| Pack | 50L · 22 × 16 × 10 in · ~22 lb |
| Duration | 1 person 5 days · 2 people 3 days |
| Shelf life | Food 20 yr · water 5 yr |
| Included | S.A.F.E. Digital Vault · 16 documents |
If it isn’t what we said it is, send it back.
Thirty days to open it and check. Open the bag, lay it out, count it against the list. If it isn’t what we told you it was, email us within 30 days and send it back for a full refund — issued within three business days of it reaching us.
If anything is damaged, missing, or not what we sent, we cover shipping both ways and a prepaid label goes out the same day. If you opened it and simply decided it isn’t for you, return shipping is yours — it’s a 22-pound box, and we’d rather you knew that now than found out at the end.
If you actually use it, we refill it. Deploy this bag in a real emergency and we’ll replace the food and water once, free. Email us what happened — that’s the whole process, and it’s the outcome we’d far rather hear about than a refund.
Full returns & guarantee policy (PDF) →
Built by a retired Marine Corps Master Sergeant in San Diego. Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned. Every bag packed by hand.
