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Emergencies can range from inconvenient to devastating, but you can take some simple preparedness steps in advance to minimize their impact on you and your family. (Excerpts from Ready America)
Get an Emergency Supply Kit (.pdf)
When preparing for a possible emergency situation, it's best to think first about the basics of survival: fresh water, food, clean air and warmth.
Make a Family Emergency Plan (.pdf)
Your family may not be together when disaster strikes, so it is important to plan in advance: how you will contact one another; how you will get back together; and what you will do in different situations. Before an emergency happens, sit down together and decide how you will get in contact with each other, where you will go and what you will do in an emergency.
Be Informed about Different Types of Emergencies
Some of the things you can do to prepare for the unexpected, such as making an emergency supply kit and developing a family communications plan, are the same for both a natural or man-made emergency.
However, there are important differences among potential emergencies that will impact the decisions you make and the actions you take. Learn more about the different types of emergencies that could happen where you live and the appropriate way to respond to them by visiting Homeland Security's ready.gov Web site. |
