{"id":555,"date":"2026-02-19T11:42:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whatthefinland.fi\/?p=555"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:28:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:28:50","slug":"national-preparedness-day-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatthefinland.fi\/fi\/news\/national-preparedness-day-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"National Preparedness Day 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br>What The Finland celebrated the national preparedness day on February 7. Authorities and civil society organizations jointly recommend that every household should be prepared to cope independently for at least 72 hours in case of disruptions or crises.<br><br>Preparedness is not about fear. This day, and the upcoming 112 Day, remind us that help is always just one call away, and that safety, preparedness and caring for one another are skills we can all learn.<br><br>To make safety and preparedness skills accessible for everyone, we continue with important follow-up activities during spring in Vaasa \u2013 in English:<br><br>\ud83d\udd34 March 3 \u2013 Workshop with Finnish Red Cross voluntary preparedness and first aid group<br>\ud83d\udd34 April \u2013 Lecture 72h preparedness and visit to voluntary firefighters<br>\ud83d\udd34 May 18 \u2013 Workshop with voluntary women in Finnish national defence<br><br>Also during the Spring, we\u2019ll organize a one-day 72h preparedness instructor training in English.<br><br>\u2728 More information and registration details coming closer to each event<br><br>\u2728 All these activities are made possible with the support granted by @opvaasavasa @oplansirannikko <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/op-pohjola\/\">OP Financial Group<\/a>.<br><br><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make safety and preparedness skills accessible for everyone, we organize  important activities in English during spring 2026 in Vaasa region.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatthefinland.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatthefinland.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatthefinland.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatthefinland.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatthefinland.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatthefinland.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatthefinland.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatthefinland.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatthefinland.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatthefinland.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatthefinland.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}