ALL-HAZARDS PREPAREDNESS
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Community Emergency Response Team
An emergency can occur quickly and without warning. The most important
thing you can do to keep yourself and your family safe from an emergency
is to prepare, stay calm, and follow instruction from emergency personnel.
The following suggestions will help you and your family develop an emergency
plan, assemble a preparedness kit, and share some basic information on
what to do before, during, and after any emergency. These will also provide
you with important information about how to obtain emergency and ongoing
disaster recovery assistance.
Before Emergency Strikes
An emergency can occur without warning, leaving little or no time for
you and your family to plan what to do next. It is necessary for you to
learn about the things you can do to be prepared—before an emergency
occurs. Two actions that will help you do this are to develop an Emergency
Plan, and prepare an Disaster Supply Kit. The next few pages describe
how this is done.
Create an Emergency Plan
Before creating your household emergency plan, learn about the types
of emergencies that may affect your community, how you’ll be notified
of an event, and plans that may be in place to deal with these events.
Learn if your community has a warning system—via television, radio,
or another signal—recognize what it sounds like and what to do when
you hear it. Emergencies may strike when your family members are away
from home, so find out about plans at your workplace, school, or anywhere
else you and your family spends time. Steps to take in creating a household
emergency plan includes:
These recommendations and suggestions are intended to improve both natural
and man-made disasters preparedness, response and recovery. The contents
are meant to improve your readiness capability but do not guarantee the
safety of any individual, structure, or facility in a disaster situation.
Neither the United States, the Island of Guam nor the Office of Civil
Defense assumes liability for any injury, death, or property damage that
results from any disasters.
Valuable input was provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency,
Government of District of Columbia, Chemtrec, American Red Cross and RleneLive.com
archives.
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