Long term deployment

[ADSNWFLD]

How many of your teams are set up for a long term deployment (24 to 72 hours) without the assistance of the stricken jurisdiction.
After several drills and mock deployments we are trying to find a happy middle ground of being prepared and going overboard.
Many of our team members have overnight bags packed and ready with cloths spare ppe etc, but what I'm wondering is what are your teams doing for food, bedding, and those items.
Thanks in advance

[herbroberson]

72 hour ready bags are usually the norm. 9 MREs and a bottle of 30 Water Purification tabs (each tab treats 1 gallon) for each person shouuld solve your immediate food needs. We keep a room full of MREs and when our
team(s) are asked to deploy, our agency loads several boxes on our equipment trailer and away we go.
:)

[NJTF1Bowman]

All members are setup with 72 Hour bags, as for bedding and food we carry enough tents, cots, and sleeping bags for 1/2 class 1 team figuring on hot swap sleeping (one cot and sleeping for two members) along with portable water heats for showers and chemical toilets (5 gal. buckets with a seat) and MRE's or Heater meals and bottled water readily available on the trucks. But that's just the begining of what you can do... For 9/11 a nearby towns decon trailer was requested and used by the team as a shower trailer.

[MtnRsq]

Grab/go w/out secondary support for 72 hours is a requirement for most SAR work. While mix and type of gear will vary with season, incident location, etc., we go with a basic mix of tent, sleeping pad (no cots - can't be carried in the field :) ), sleeping bag, stove (usually a butane fueled Snowpeak or JetBoil model w/included pot), MREs/freezedried food (try diff. options - palatability is important), water purification (filter or iodine tablets), basic personal hygiene/comfort stuff (incl. spare glasses/contacts, earplugs, etc.).

Most gear is pre-packed in a large duffel (3,500 cu. in.) (excl. the sleeping bag which is stored loose in a large sack) and can be grabbed and added to the normal 24 hour pack and we're off.

The winter bag is about 7,000 cu. in. due to all the extra gear. If we are going to be working @ high altitude or melting snow for water the butane stove is usually swapped for a white gas model (MSR XKG or similar).

Disaster response is remarkably similar. Many of the items you'd use backpacking or modest car camping trip will work. Try stuff out and see what works for you before you are dependent on it.