Family Disaster Plan
Family Disaster Plan : (1) Discuss with your family the hazards that could impact your local area, the potential for community evacuation or sheltering, and your community's warning systems and what to do if they are used. (2) Determine where to meet in the event of an emergency. Designate one location right outside your home in case of a sudden emergency, like a fire, and another location outside your neighborhood in case you can't return home. (3) Ask an out-of-town friend or relative to be your emergency contact. Following a disaster, family members should call this person and tell them where they are. (4) Make a communication plan where all family members know how to contact each other. A form for recording this information can be found at www.ready.gov - or at www.redcross.org/contactcard. (5) Include provisions for your pets in your family disaster plan. (6) Practice the plan. (FEMA & ARC, Helping Children Cope with Disaster, 2005)
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