There may be a lot of frivolous apps available, but not all of them are. There are some out there that will even help you in emergency situations. We want you to be ready, so we have detailed three apps that will not just help you in small emergencies, like your car breaking down, but larges ones as well, like tornadoes.
AroundMe
AroundMe has existed for a while, but it remains a top locator app. With it, you can discover everything from the nearest gas station to the closest bank. It is easy to see how AroundMe might help in case of an emergency. Say your infant is sick, you’re in a strange city, and you need to find a hospital as quickly as possible. Just log onto the app, click the category that you need – in this case, “Hospital” – and find the nearest medical provider to you. It’s little surprise that many consumers consider AroundMe to be a must-have app.
CPR & Choking
The name of this app says it all: CPR & Choking will give you tips and full-fledged lessons on how to deal with a person who is choking or who isn’t breathing. It can be particularly handy if you have never taken CPR classes or have forgotten what you’ve learned. This app, which is free, was developed by the University of Washington and King County EMS to save lives. It includes a number of videos that tell you exactly what to do if a person you know is in the middle of a medical emergency or cardiac event.
Emergency Radio Free
This app gives you access to police, fire, weather, and other live emergency radio feeds all over the world. You can choose to only tune into the ones in your community so that you can stay up to date if there is a local emergency, a tornado, for instance, or an armed criminal on the loose.
These apps cannot protect you completely but they are good to have in your arsenal to help safeguard you should an emergency strike.
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