Emergency
Planning
Planning
The Red Cross recommends these three steps to create an emergency plan: discuss emergencies, assign responsibilities, and...
What is practicing the plan?
The Red Cross recommends choosing this many places to meet if family members become separated.
What are two places?
These events, which can occur almost anywhere, should be included in every household's emergency plan.
What are home fires, storms, heat waves, earthquakes, landslides or floods?
This is what a household follows and ends up at if it needs to leave home during an emergency.
What is an evacuation route and destination?
These household members must be included in emergency planning even though they are not human.
What are pets?
This is the first thing household members should discuss when preparing for emergencies.
What are the emergencies most likely to occur where they live, learn, work, and play?
This is where the first family meeting place should be in case of a sudden emergency, such as a fire.
What is right outside the home?
These disasters are especially relevant to the Southern California region.
What are regional hazards, such as wildfires, tsunamis, and strong earthquakes?
The Red Cross recommends practicing evacuation from your home this many times per year.
What is twice a year?
These household members may require additional assistance or accommodations during an emergency because of age.
Who are older adults?
The Red Cross recommends identifying these for each household member so everyone knows their role during a crisis.
What are responsibilities?
The second meeting place should be located here in case family members cannot return home or must evacuate.
Where is outside the neighborhood?
The opposite of evacuation, this response requires that you stay INSIDE your home during an emergency.
What is sheltering in place?
During an evacuation practice, families should take this with them as they would during a real emergency.
What is their emergency kit?
The Red Cross identifies these household members as potentially needing special accommodations due to mobility, hearing, seeing, or learning challenges.
Who are people with disabilities?
The Red Cross provides free versions of these documents to help families organize their emergency plans.
(Hint: you have one.)
What are family disaster plan templates?
Families should designate this person to contact if local phone lines are overloaded or unavailable.
Who is an out-of-area emergency contact?
This type of disaster can cause severe heat strokes and might need you to move to public cooling centers.
What is a heat wave/extreme heat event?
Families should identify these in case their primary evacuation roads cannot be used.
What are alternate routes?
These locations should have emergency contact information for children who spend time there.
What are schools and daycares?
In an emergency where you cannot reach your family (such as at school or at work), you will immediately try to reach for this secondary contact.
What is an emergency contact person?
Families should keep emergency contact information in both of these formats to improve access during an emergency.
What are written copies and saved information on cell phones?
What are earthquakes?
When planning an evacuation, households should identify these two types of places to accommodate family members traveling with animals.
What are pet-friendly hotels or motels and animal shelters?