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Karen McHale

Karen is an engineer, volunteer firefighter and emergency planner.

Karen has spent most of her career training and developing plans for private and government facilities to prepare for disasters and threats. This includes water and wastewater facilities, mining, manufacturing and other necessary support infrastructure companies. Her plans prepare companies for natural, man-made and even made up scenarios.

As a volunteer firefighter she is part of the Incident Command Team for Clear Creek County and is certified as a wildland firefighter and emergency responder.

Besides her latest release, Economic Meltdown, A Family Preparedness Plan for Disaster, she created The Fire Station Buddies, Inc., a training program and book series for kids 12 and under. Kids can sign up and start their training on how to deal with emergencies, learn how to solve problems and have a lot of fun. www.firestationbuddies.com.

Karen and her husband live in the mountains of Colorado and are completely off the grid (their house runs on solar power, propane, well and septic). They have more than a year and a half of food and supplies to be completely self-sufficient if the US does go through hyperinflation or a currency crisis. She is has also planned for her kids to move back in as well as her parents, if the economy does get bad. Karen grows what she can at 9,500 ft and is teaching others on how to prepare for any kind of a crisis.

You may have seen Karen on the following shows: Inside Edition, Good Morning America, FOX News, The Lottery Changed My Life, 9 News & Channel 2 in Denver and The Tyra Banks Show.