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Regardless of all the fancy and “safe” stuff the only lamp which will store for years and be usable in moments is a candle. Store these where you can find them in the dark; the batteries in your flashlight (electric torch for you Brits) might be dead.
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Just so you know, Lithium batteries in an LED flashlight have a typical shelf life of 10 years.
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Regardless of all the fancy and “safe” stuff the only lighters which will store for years and be usable in moments are matches.
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Or plain old bic lighters.
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be aware of the dead batteries.
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The easy method of staying prepared is to check your supplies each time you reset your clocks for daylight savings. That's also a good time to replace the batteries in your Carbon Monoxide detectors and smoke detectors.
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BTW, why do we call flashlights flashlights?
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Because in the early days (1920's and earlier) batteries and bulbs both sucked. The batteries held very little power and the bulbs had a very short lifespan, so flashlights were all designed with a momentary switch and you "flashed them on" to look around and then turned them off.
Just as a side note, one other important part of disaster prep is to be stealthy so if every other house in the neighborhood is dark don't light your place up like a runway, it'll attract goblins and leeches from all directions.