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Emergency Document Storage
Page Updated on
July 28, 2007
Important documents should be stored in a waterproof, fireproof box. Ideally the box should be portable, so you can take it with you if you must evacuate.
The box should contain
Birth certificates
Death certificates
Marriage certificates
Divorce certificates
Military discharge papers
Immunization records
Passports (since they cost so much to replace)
Financial inventory
Home inventory
Updated address and phone directory of all of your friends, neighbors, members of your emergency survival community, and family
Titles to property
Stock certificates
Bonds
Certificates of deposit
Pension plan records
Trust documents
Copy of your will (You can put your original will in your fireproof box if the key is available for your survivors to get into the box. However, never put your original will in a safe deposit box. Upon your death, your safety deposit box may be sealed, making it impossible for the original, legal will to be read an executed without a struggle. Instead, have your lawyer keep the original, put it in a fireproof box, or find some other protective means to store your will that will not make the execution of the will difficult.)
