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Preparedness Potpourri
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This is the first priority when an emergency occurs.
What is Life Safety?
100
Regardless of the type of emergency you may face or where you live, helping your community starts with this.
What is knowing your neighbors? Meet your neighbors today! Being prepared for an emergency begins with “hello”.
100
This amount of flood water can sweep away your vehicle.
What is one foot of water?
100
This organization provides service to residents who may be displaced during an emergency.
What is the American Red Cross?
100
You would not want to be injured during an emergency without one of these in your supply kit.
What is a first aid kit? (Information on how to put together a first aid kit can be found at: http://www.redcross.org.)
200
This is the first step when developing an Emergency Response Plan.
What is, "Conduct a Risk Assessment"?
200
This step is vital to ensure that you can reach your neighbors in the event of an emergency.
What is exchanging contact information?
200
Pet owners can include these items in their emergency kit to reduce stress for their pets in an emergency.
What are your pet's favorite toys/treats?
200
This organization falls under the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA).
What is the Local Emergency Planning Committee?
200
Volunteers should NEVER do this after a disaster, otherwise they can overwhelm the coordinated response to an event.
What is self-deploy?
300
This is the official DHS website for information about Emergency Preparedness - with downloadable templates to make your plan.
What is: www.ready.gov?
300
This percentage of those surveyed reported having a disability that would affect them in an emergency.
What is 20%. Shockingly only one out of four had made arrangements specific to their disability to help them respond safely.
300
This is a precaution to keep you safe while remaining indoors - this is NOT the same thing as going to a shelter.
What is Shelter in Place? (Shelter-in-place means selecting a small, interior room, with no or few windows, and taking refuge there. It does not mean sealing off your entire home or office building.)
300
This organization coordinates the skills of health providers as well as citizens interested in health issues.
What is the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC)?
300
You can create this of your valuables and store it in a safe deposit box or other off-site location.
What is a photographic record or inventory? (Consider keeping a copy on a CD or flash drive.)
400
It is important to have a extra supply of these items in the event of an emergency.
What is are medications and other medical supplies? (oxygen, supplies for functional and access needs, diabetic supplies, etc)
400
Your neighborhood can get in touch with these groups to to discuss ways to prepare your community and improve its capacity to respond to and recover from disaster.
What is your fire department, police department, or emergency management agency.
400
The best disaster supply kits will have food and water for at LEAST this many hours.
What is 72 hours?
400
This organization educates and trains volunteers in basic disaster response skills.
What is the Community Emergency Response Team?
400
You should prepare this, in addition to your home, for the event of an emergency.
What is your vehicle?
500
Your family may not be together when a disaster strikes. It is important to write and have this in advance.
What is an Emergency Preparedness Plan?
500
Awareness of these issues impacting your community will help you prioritize your focus on emergency preparedness and how best to plan.
What is your neighborhood's specific hazards?
500
This information is vital to have on hand in the event of a disaster.
What is financial and critical personal, household, and medical information? (FEMA’s Emergency Financial First Aid Kit will guide you through collecting and recording all vital information.)
500
These individuals monitor real time weather and provides updates to the National Weather Service.
What are Weather Spotters?
500
This natural hazard caused 155 fatalities in 2012 and has the highest 10 year average of fatalities with 117 fatalities according to the National Weather Service (2003 - 2013).
What is Extreme Heat?