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A school lockdown in my town last year lasted four hours. False alarm. But teachers and staff were locked in classrooms with no extra water, no extra food, and for some, no access to their medications. One teacher spent the first hour managing scared kids and the last three managing her own blood sugar. A desk drawer kit would have changed her entire experience.

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The Workplace Lockdown Kit

We covered the general workplace kit in Issue 61. This week addresses the specific scenario of being locked in place at work for hours, unable to leave your floor, room, or building.

The constraints are different from a general kit. You may be confined to a single room. You may not have access to your desk. The kit needs to be compact enough for a drawer or small bag but complete enough for 4 to 8 hours of confinement.

Contents: 2 water bottles (16oz each), 2 protein bars, essential medications (a day's supply of anything you take daily), a phone charger and cable, a small flashlight, a dust mask (N95), basic first aid supplies, a mylar emergency blanket, a comfort item (earplugs or noise-canceling earbuds), and a printed emergency contact card.

For active threat scenarios specifically: know your room's exits and hiding options before you need them. Identify objects that can barricade a door (desk, file cabinet, door wedge). Know which interior walls are solid versus partition walls. These observations take 30 seconds and should be made the first week at any new workplace.

A door wedge is the most underrated lockdown tool. A $3 rubber wedge jammed under a door from the inside prevents the door from being opened, even if the lock is defeated. Commercial door security devices ($15 to $30) do the same thing more robustly.

For non-threatening lockdowns (chemical spill, police operation), the primary needs are comfort and communication: water, food, medication, phone power, and the ability to reach family. Your SOP from Issue 99 tells your family you're safe without requiring a phone call during a potentially overloaded network.

Store the kit in a bag that doesn't look like an emergency kit. A small lunch bag or cosmetics pouch works. Keep it in the same location every day so you can grab it reflexively.

Put a door wedge in your desk drawer at work.

A rubber door wedge costs $3 and gives you the ability to secure any inward-opening door from the inside. Keep it with your workplace kit.

A Four-State 911 Outage Knocked Out Emergency Calls for Hours

On June 15, a 911 outage disrupted emergency calls across Washington, Arizona, Texas, and Iowa within the same window. Washington went down statewide for roughly three hours — calls began failing around 2:30 p.m. and were not restored until about 5:55 p.m. Agencies told residents to look up and dial their dispatch centers' ten-digit backup numbers instead. The cause was not disclosed. It fits a documented pattern: reporting on the national 911 system describes aging infrastructure with single points of failure that can darken whole regions at once. Look up your local dispatch center's direct line now and write it down — somewhere you can reach it when a call to 911 does not connect.

Source: KFF Health News, KING5

Joel Lambert's SERE background taught him that confinement, whether intentional or situational, requires specific preparation that differs from general readiness. In A Navy SEAL's Bug-In Guide, he writes about maintaining composure and capability during periods of forced immobility.

Lambert's principle for lockdowns: control what you can. You can't control the situation outside. You can control your hydration, your blood sugar, your communication with family, and the security of your immediate space. Each of those controlled elements reduces stress and preserves decision-making capacity for if and when action becomes necessary.

A Navy SEAL's Bug-In Guide by Joel Lambert

Iranian Hackers Breach a California Water Utility — and Say They Chose Not to Cut the Water

The Iran-linked group Handala claimed on June 11 that it broke into California Water Service (Cal Water), one of the largest investor-owned water utilities in the US, and leaked roughly 5GB of data including customer names, addresses, account numbers, and payment histories. The attackers said they reached an internal billing system through an exposed GNSS base-station platform and could have disrupted the water supply but chose not to. Cal Water investigated and found no evidence the attackers reached its operational-technology (OT) systems — the controls that actually run treatment and distribution. Federal agencies have warned since the recent US-Iran conflict that Iranian actors are probing American water utilities, which often lack basic cybersecurity. The takeaway for households: water and power can fail from a keyboard, not just a storm. Keep stored water and a manual filter on hand so a utility outage is an inconvenience, not a crisis.

Source: Cybersecurity Dive, SecurityWeek

Master Lock Door Security Bar

This is a telescoping steel bar that wedges between the doorknob and the floor, preventing inward-opening doors from being pushed open. It adjusts from 27 to 42 inches and works on most commercial door handles.

I tested it on my office door. A firm push from outside moved the door about half an inch before the bar stopped it. A hard shoulder check: no movement. It's dramatically more effective than a rubber wedge and takes about 3 seconds to deploy. Stores flat against a wall or behind a file cabinet. About $25.

Budget alternative: A rubber door wedge ($3). Less robust but fits in a pocket. For classroom teachers, keeping one on your person during school hours is the practical choice.

Master Lock Door Security Bar

Overrated: Active shooter training that focuses exclusively on the "run" option. Running is ideal when possible, but many lockdowns confine you to a room where running isn't an option. Training that covers barricade, concealment, and confinement management is more complete.

Underrated: Earplugs during a lockdown. Extended lockdowns are loud (alarms, announcements, anxiety). The ability to reduce noise stimulation helps maintain calm and cognitive function during hours of confined waiting. A $1 pair of foam earplugs in your kit. Higher quality electronic ones reduce loud noise while still allowing you to hear.

Ready.gov: Active Shooter — Federal guidance on active threat preparedness.

ALICE Training Institute — Widely used workplace threat response training.

Grokipedia: Lockdown — Background on lockdown procedures and history.

DHS: Active Shooter Resources — Department of Homeland Security guidance and materials.

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PS: That teacher with the blood sugar problem now keeps a small kit in her desk: water bottle, protein bar, glucose tablets, and a phone charger. She said the four-hour lockdown made her take workplace preparedness personally. Sometimes the lesson has to happen before the learning does.

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