Preparedness
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What is the number to call for the Rapid Response team?
Uncontrolled blaze in the woods
What is a forest fire?
Police department, fire department and EMS
What are the 3 primary emergency services?
A small metal or plastic object that you put in your mouth and blow to make a high sound to alert others
What is a whistle?
One gallon of water per person per day for at least three days, for drinking and sanitation.
What is the amount of water you need for a 72 hour kit?
The number to call in an emergency outside of work
What is 911?
Sudden shaking of the ground
What is an earthquake?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
Code for Violent Dangerous Person
What is code Purple?
An international code signal of extreme distress, used especially by ships at sea.
What is S.O.S.?
A gas that is colorless and odorless.
What is carbon monoxide?
A natural event that causes damage and loss of life
What is a natural disaster?
Overflowing water behind its normal confines
What is a flood?
A collection of supplies used to give medical treatment
What is a first aid kit?
A column of smoke used as a way of conveying a message to a distant person.
What is a smoke signal?
What you do if your clothes catch fire
What is stop, drop and roll?
An event that affects or threatens the health, safety or welfare of people, property and infrastructure, and which requires a significant and coordinated response.
What is an emergency?
A funnel-shaped cloud advancing beneath a large storm system.
What is a tornado?
Mouth-to-mouth respiration and chest compression to allow oxygenated blood to circulate to vital organs such as the brain and heart.
What is CPR?
Where you should have smoke alarms
What is in each bedroom/sleeping area and on every level of the home?
The most important thing you need in an emergency or disaster?
What is clean water?
A three day supple of water, nonperishable food, medications, first-aid kit, battery radio, flashlight/lantern, extra batteries, waterproof matches, blankets, extra clothing, toiletries, important family documents, whistle, local maps, or money.
What are things you should have in your emergency kit?
Strong circular wind over the ocean
What is a hurricane?
DROP to the ground; take COVER by getting under a sturdy table or other piece of furniture; and HOLD ON until the shaking stops
What should you do during an earthquake?
Three fires or piles of rocks in a triangle, three blasts on a whistle, three shots from a firearm, or three flashes of a light, in succession followed by a one-minute pause and repeated until a response is received.
What is a distress signal?
Rescue, Activate, Contain, Extinguish
What does R.A.C.E stand for?