ALL-HAZARDS PREPAREDNESS

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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:

Tsunami
Tsunami Safety Tips

Safety tips

• If you are in school, follow the advice of teachers and other school personnel
• If you are at home, ensure our entire family is aware of the warning
• Evacuate your house if you live in a low-lying area
• Follow the advice of local emergency and law enforcement authorities
• If you are at the beach, and you feel the earth shake, move immediately to higher ground; DO NOT wait for the tsunami warning to be announced
• Stay away from rivers that lead to the ocean
• Do not go to the shoreline to watch for a tsunami; when you can see the wave, it is too late to escape
• If you are on a boat, do not return to port; tsunamis can cause rapid changes in water level and unpredictable dangerous currents in harbors/ports
• Stay away from the area until local authorities say it is safe

Please note: If the roads leading to your staging area are blocked with fallen debris or power poles, seek higher ground within your village.

• Agana (downtown) low-lying areas
  Head to Agana Heights (Government House Overflow Parking Lot)
• East Agana low-lying areas
  Head to Tiyan (Guam Police Headquarters) using Route 8
• Agat low-lying areas
• From Namu River (Old Agat) to the Old Cemetery head to Southern High School.
• From Old Cemetery to Fanili area head to Oceanview Middle School.
• Umang area head to Umang Road (inland)
• Pagachao area head to Mao Drive (Pagachao Subdivision)
• From Nimitz Beach Park to Talayac head to Upper Santa Ana (Transfer Station)
• Anigua low-lying areas Head to Agana Heights (Government Hose Overflow Parking Lot)using Route 7
• Asan and Maina low-lying areas
  Head to Nimitz Hill 9Baseball Field) using Route 6
• Inarajan low-lying areas
• From Lada through Inarajan Pool head to Ija Subdivision
• From Ajayan Point through Lada head to UOG Farm
• Village Area head to Inarajan /Elementary School
• Chagami and Chagamin Lagu area head to Southern Regional public Health
• Merizo low-lying areas
• From Chalan Pedro Tainatongo through Chalan Quinene head to Chalan Jesus Quinene
• From Chalan Quinene to Chalan J. A. Cruz head to Merizo Elementary/
  Community Center
• From Chalan J. A. Cruz to Bile head to Fort Soledad
• Piti low-lying areas
  Head to Top O’ The Mar parking lot (Route 6)
• Ordot/Chalan Paga low-lying areas
  Pago Bay head to Ordot/Chalan Pago Community Center or M.U. Lujan Elementary School in Yona
• Talofofo low-lying area
• From Togcha Cemetery to Beja Road head to Windward Hills Golf Course area using Route 17
• From Beja Road to Talofofo Bay (surf area) head to Notre Dame School using Route 4A
• Tamuning/Tumon low-lying areas
• From Alupang area through oka Point head to ITC Building or U.S. Postal area (Route 1,14,30, & 30A)
• From Ypao Point to Ypao Beach head to St. Anthony Church
• From Ypao Beach to Fujita Hotel head to JFK High School (Route 14A)
• From Fujita Hotel through Gun Beach head to Pia Marine (Pale San Vitores)
• Umatac low-lying areas

  From Toguan through Sanchez elementary School head to Fort Soledad area

  From Sanchez Elementary School through Castizo area head to I Memorias Para I Laahita Vista Points

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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