Make a Kit
Your kit should be able to help you survive on your own for _ hours after a disaster.
What is 72 hours?
The two types of plans you can make to cover MOST emergencies.
What are evacuation and shelter-in-place plans?
A notice that a Tornado COULD Happen
What is a tornado WATCH
The Red Cross line of service that offers certification courses for the public to learn life-saving skills
What is Training Services?
The Common phrase to remember not to drive in flood waters
What is 'Turn around Don't Drown'?
What item is often forgotten in a kit but needed to eat shelf stable food?
What is a can opener?
What is 2?
The nationwide network of radio stations broadcasting continuous weather information directly from the nearest National Weather Service office
What is the National Weather Radio (NWR)
The most common and needed GAP in the American Red Cross for disaster operations
What is Shelter Worker?
Common phrase used for lightning/thunder safety
What is when 'Thunder roars go indoors'
Places we should keep an emergency kit
What are your home, work, and your car?
Frequency you should practice emergency plans or drills in your home.
What is yearly?
Local entity in charge of emergency planning for a large jurisdiction and coordinating the response efforts.
What is Emergency Management?
What Red Cross Doctrine guides how we respond to disasters?
What is Concept of Operations?
Popular phrase to remind kids what to do when their smoke alarms go off (Not stop drop and roll)
What is Get low and go
These common items in an emergency kit that would require extra batteries
What is a flashlight and weather radio?
Number of smoke detectors you should have on each level of your home.
What is 1?
A nationwide text emergency alert system which will warn you if there are Extreme Weather Warnings, Local Emergencies requiring immediate action, AMBER Alerts, and Presidential Alerts.
What is the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) System? (Also accepted: IPAWS)
Red Cross program that ensures national-level Red Cross coordination and adjudication of resources, oversight, guidance, situational awareness, and planning to support regions, divisions, and disaster relief operations.
What is the Disaster Operations Coordination Center, or 'DOCC'?
Phrase used for driving in winter weather
What is "Ice and Snow, take it slow"
The recently retired American Red Cross youth preparedness program that was inspired by college students evacuating during Hurricane Katrina and developed to teach children how to make emergency kits
What is the Pillowcase Project?
The plan maintained by emergency managers for a city or county jurisdiction to address all hazard responses.
What is the Local Emergency Operations Plan (LEOP)?
The city where air raid sirens were first documented to be used as outdoor tornado warnings.
What is Wichita, KS?
The minimum cost threshold of a level 7 disaster operation
Old proverb used by sailors to identify incoming storms
What is 'Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning'?