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Home emergency & preparedness editor

Martha Finch

Norwich, Norfolk · 10+ years covering this beat

Martha leads our home-emergency hub, emergency kit guides, and the UK law and safety section. Her background is loss-claims investigation: eight years working for a UK insurer walking through burst pipes, flooded basements, carbon monoxide incidents, post-storm structural failures and one memorable house fire that started in a phone charger. She has seen every preventable disaster a UK household can produce. She now writes from Norwich and runs flood-preparedness workshops for community groups in low-lying parts of Norfolk. Her writing is unsentimental about risk, sharp on the boring stuff (where your stopcock is, when your smoke alarm last had its battery changed), and loathes scaremongering by prep-industry marketers as much as she loathes complacency.

Areas of expertise

Home emergenciesFlood preparationEmergency kitsUK legislationInsurance claim patternsBS standards

Articles by Martha

56 articles across 3 hubs

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