Why Talk About a Family Disaster Plan?
Disaster can strike quickly and without warning. It can force you to evacuate
your neighborhood or confine you to your home. What would you do if basic services,
such as water, gas, electricity, or telephones were cut off? Local officials and
relief workers will be on the scene after a disaster, but they cannot reach everyone right away.
4 Steps To Safety
1. Find out what could happen to you.
By learning what your risks may be, you can prepare for the disaster most likely to occur in your area.
2. Create a Family Disaster Plan.
Once you know what disasters are possible in your area, talk about how to prepare and how to respond if one occurs.
3. Complete your checklists.
Take the steps outlined in the checklists you made when you created your Family Disaster Plan.
4. Practice and maintain your plan.
Practicing your plan will help you instinctively make the appropriate response during an actual emergency.
Your local Red Cross Chapter has booklets and other
vital information to assist in making a family disaster
plan, they also have information on assembling a
disaster preparedness kit