All right, here's my background: Me and my parents have fallen with a truck into a ravine after a earthquake. I have my PSK/EDC with me and my larger survival backpack is always beside me, so I assume I have that to. It?s cold, but not raining (yet) You say that it would take 63 hrs for a search-party to find me, so my primary objectives are:
-Medical care
-Shelter
-fire
-Signalling/Location
-water/(food/energy booster)

First thing I would ask: ?everybody all right??. I would find out that 2 people are hurt, so I would look at their injuries and treat them if possible using my medical kit that is in my larger survival backpack.

After that, I would move the 2 patients and the supplies as far as possible from the crash-site, to prevent being hit by debris/rocks from possible aftershocks. After that I would start making a shelter, using the tube-tent in wich I could transfer the two injured passengers.I would use my 2 thermal blankets to prevent hypothermia and if it's possible: collect the overnight bags and use there equipment to.

Then I make a fire wich I position as to allow maximum heat onto the victims (if it's cold weather), possibly make a heat-reflector from a piece of HD aluminium foil. I would get two times what I think I would need in firewood (from the tries) and lite it using Coghlan?s emergency tinder, my fire steel - bic - or match. Off course I make my fire that it burns the whole night.

For signalling, I would give one of the victims a whistle on a lanyard so that I can keep contact with them. I also take a whistle and a signal mirror. Possibly I would make 3 signal-fire for stand-by, possibly using the tires of the truck for instant black smoke. I would cover them with 3 hd garbage bags to prevent them from getting wet. The bags would make a signal, even if the fire isn?t on. Maybe it?s even possible for me to climb out of the ravine and also make some sort of signal there to give away out location to the searching party.

I have 2 quarts in my survival backpack and 1.5 gallons survived the fall, so I wouldn't have a shortage of water. Also with my emergency rations and energy boosters I'm able to fight of hunger and thirst for the 63 hours it takes the search-party to find me.

In the night, my fire and LED headlights/flashlights would provide light and I could use my reusable heat-packs to keep the victims warm.

Well, after two nights the search-party would find us. I give 3 blasts on my whistle to find us, we are extracted out of the ravine. The victims would be taken to the hospital and everything would be all right. We survived!

(I would off course make a post on this forum the next day?.)

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