Four threads moved simultaneously over the weekend. Here is the Monday picture: WILDFIRE — The National Interagency Fire Center elevated the national fire danger level to NPL 3 this morning — the third-highest level on a five-point scale. There are 31 large uncontained fires burning across the country, with 8 new fires ignited over the…
Author: Nick Meacher
Nick Meacher learned preparedness planning from his extensive career in emergency services and emergency management. With over 25 years as an expert planner developing and teaching emergency response programs, Train-the-Trainer programs, developing a variety of exercises to include Emergency Operations Center and Continuity of Operations. He has worked on an All-Hazards Incident Management Team and in Emergency Operations Centers. He is an instructor for Continuity of Operations, Incident Management, Exercise Design and a number of other related courses.
He is a contributing author to several magazines and teaches preparedness, including developing family emergency plans, communications plans, Amateur Radio and other aspects of being prepared for the natural and man-made disasters that occur every year.
He has been a contributor to several Department of Homeland Security documents on encryption in public safety. He has presented at several state emergency management conferences, the American Association of Airport Executives Emergency Management conferences and Public Safety Communications Summits. He has appeared on a number of podcasts.
He runs a volunteer team that provides free Amateur Radio (HAM) classes and tests and has provided almost 2,000 test sessions in four years with over 1,200 new ham radio operators.
New Online Training Courses
See whats coming at https://fortunefavorstheprepared.com/curriculum/ The MAG Logistics course is being beta tested and should be available early next week. The MAG Vetting courses is being deployed to the website this weekend. Once complete it will go to a few folks to beta test then will be available. The next one, already developed, is INT-04:…
FORTUNE FAVORS THE PREPARED — DAILY THREAT REPORT
17 JUNE 2026 | PREP-CON 4 ORANGE SKY Three items in today’s report that can’t wait: — SEVERE WEATHER ACTIVE: SPC Day 1 MODERATE RISK in Illinois and Indiana. Intense tornadoes, 75+ mph gusts, damaging hail. All three Illinois NWR transmitters (Hillsboro, Princeton, Lockport) are simultaneously out of service. WEA phone alerts are the only…
Deal Day is Friday – what’s in today’s report
The US and Iran agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding on Sunday. The signing ceremony is Friday, June 19th, in Switzerland. Brent crude fell more than 4% today – the lowest price since March. Here is the honest picture going into Friday. The deal nearly collapsed on Sunday. The IDF struck Beirut’s Dahiyeh district after…
A lot of updates this week on Fortune Favors the Prepared
INTELLIGENCE • Intelligence Landing Page (NEW) – fortunefavorstheprepared.com/intelligence/ • Intelligence Disciplines hub page (new) – fortunefavorstheprepared.com/intelligence-disciplines/ • Counterintelligence Tradecraft article (updated) https://fortunefavorstheprepared.com/preparedness-book-of-knowledge-2/intel-gathering/counterintelligence-tradecraft-for-preppers/ • The School for Ungentlemanly Warfare – How a secret training pipeline that ran from the Scottish Highlands to a lakeshore in Ontario built the modern intelligence operator, and why its lessons still…
The world is watched. Here’s how the system was built.
The Architecture of Intelligence series is complete — eight articles tracing the surveillance system from its wartime origins to the present. Here’s what’s in it: Part 1 — MI5, MI6, Bletchley Park & Camp X The 1909 founding of British intelligence, Alan Turing and the codebreakers, the Special Operations Executive, and the spy school at…
DTR 11 JUN | 2nd night of US-Iran strikes | World Cup opens | Check Point deadline today | Enhanced severe weather active
he Daily Threat Report for Thursday, 11 June 2026 is published. Here is what is driving this cycle. OVERNIGHT: The United States executed a second consecutive night of self-defense strikes against Iranian air defense and surveillance targets near the Strait of Hormuz. Iran retaliated before dawn — missiles and drones at US military bases in…
Todays Reports
Good morning, Today’s Fortune Favors the Prepared intelligence package is attached — DTR Full, DTR Lite, and Daily Preparedness Brief. The website is experiencing an upload issue today so documents are delivered directly (I’ve been fighting it for the past couple of hours). THIS CYCLE AT A GLANCE US-IRAN DIRECT EXCHANGE — PREP-CON 3 BROWN…
DTR 09 JUN 2026
Good morning, Today’s Daily Threat Report is ready. LEAD: DTR 09 JUN 2026 — Iran/Israel Exchange Pauses; Chornobyl Fuel Site Struck; Philippines M7.8 35 KIA; Ebola PHEIC Accelerating; World Cup T-2 SUMMARY: HORMUZ DAY 58. Iran and Israel traded missiles June 7-8 — the first direct exchange since the April ceasefire — then both halted….
08 JUN 2026 | DTR + 2026 Hurricane Season Assessment Now Available
Today’s Daily Threat Report is live — and we’re releasing it alongside our 2026 Hurricane Season Assessment. Here’s the three-line picture from this cycle: – Israel and Iran exchanged direct missile and drone strikes overnight for the first time since the April ceasefire. A halt is in place as of this afternoon, but the framework…