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BUILDING YOUR EMERGENCY PLAN

Where will your family be when disaster strikes?

They could be anywhere – at work, at school or in the car.

How will you find each other?

Will you know if your loved ones are safe?

Make plans before an emergency!


Find out what could happen to your family and neighborhood.  Read this booklet through.  It can provide a good start.  Once you have determined the events possible and their potential in your community, it is important that you discuss them with your family or household.  Develop an emergency preparation plan together.

Create a Family Emergency Preparation Plan.
 Meet with your family to discuss why you need to prepare for an emergency.  Explain the dangers of fire, severe weather and floods to children.  Be sure to cover the suggestions on how to prepare for possible terrorist attacks.  Talk together about how to prepare and respond.  Plan to share responsibilities and work together as a team.

1. Create an Emergency Communications Plan.

  • Choose an out-of-town contact your family or household will telephone or e-mail to check on each other should a disaster occur.  Your selected contact should live far enough away that they would be unlikely to be directly affected by the same event, and they should know they are the chosen contact.
  • Make sure every household member has telephone numbers (home, work, pager and cell phone) for that contact, and for each other’s e-mail addresses.
  • Leave these contact numbers at your children’s schools and at your workplace.

 

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