National Preparedness Month

By taking a few simple steps now you can ensure that your family and your community are prepared before the next emergency arises.

Putting together a family preparedness plan for disasters or emergencies can serve you well in any circumstance. Whether you are facing a severe weather event, a fire in your home, a hazardous materials incident in the neighborhood, or any other emergency, it’s a good idea to plan in advance.

• Talk to your family members about preparedness and how to respond calmly to emergencies. Discuss what you would need to do to shelter in place, leave your home or evacuate your city.
• Identify two meeting places, one near your home and one away from the neighborhood in the event family members cannot return to the house.
• Post emergency phone numbers beside the telephone. Teach children how to call 911.
• Choose a friend or relative out-of-state whom all family members will telephone to check in. The out-of-state relative can relay messages. When evacuating, notify relatives and friends about your plans.
• Be familiar with designated evacuation routes leading out of town.
• Draw a home floor plan and choose at least two escape routes. Make sure you know how to shut off the water, gas and electricity.
• Keep an emergency supply kit, including water, non-perishable food, important documents, radio and flashlight with extra batteries, extra eye glasses, medications and special needs products for babies and the elderly.
• Make plans for family members or neighbors with special needs, as well as for care of pets.

More information is available at:

• www.redcross.org/
• www.citizencorps.gov
• www.americaprepared.org
• www.ready.gov/america/npm09/members.html
• www.fema.gov/
• www.ready.gov or www.listo.gov
• www.GetAGamePlan.org

FEMA’s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.

About the Author:
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The primary mission of the FEMA is to reduce the loss of life and property and protect the Nation from all hazards, including natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters, by leading and supporting the Nation in a risk-based, comprehensive emergency management system of preparedness, protection, response, recovery, and mitigation.

This article was reproduced from FEMA’s website.

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