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Emergency Plans
You may also want to inquire about emergency plans at places where your family spends time: work, daycare and school. If no plans exist, consider volunteering to help create one. Talk to your neighbors about how you can work together in the event of an emergency. You will be better prepared to safely reunite your family and loved ones during an emergency if you think ahead and communicate with others in advance. Read more: At Work and School. For more information, see "Family Disaster Planning" from American Red Cross

If you see large amounts of debris in the air, or if local authorities say the air is badly contaminated, you may want to take this kind of action.

To "Shelter-in-Place:"

Getting Away

There may be conditions under which you will decide to get away, or there may be situations when you are ordered to leave. Plan how you will assemble your family and anticipate where you will go. Choose several destinations in different directions so you have options in an emergency.

Create an evacuation plan:

Learn how and when to turn off utilities:

Locate the electric, gas and water shut-off valves.

Keep necessary tools near gas and water shut-off valves.

Teach family members how to turn off utilities.

If you turn the gas off, a professional must turn it back on. Do not attempt to do this yourself.

Plan for your pets:

Neighborhoods and Apartment Buildings

Talk to your neighbors

Find out if anyone has specialized equipment

Decide who will check on elderly or disabled neighbors.

Make back-up plans

Sharing plans and communicating in advance is a good strategy.
for children in case you can't get home in an emergency. like a power generator, or expertise such as medical knowledge, that might help in a crisis. about how you can work together during an emergency.

Schools and Daycare

Ask how they will communicate with families during a crisis.

Ask if they store adequate food, water and other basic supplies.

Find out if they are prepared to "shelter-in-place" if need be, and where they plan to go if they must get away.

Employers

Take a critical look at your heating, ventilation and air conditioning system to determine if it is secure or if it could feasibly be upgraded to better filter potential contaminants, and be sure you know how to turn it off if you need to.

If you are an employer, make sure your workplace has a building evacuation plan that is regularly practiced.
If you are a parent, or guardian of an elderly or disabled adult, make sure schools and daycare providers have emergency response plans.
A community working together during an emergency makes sense.
Pets should not be left behind

Store

extra food, water and supplies for your pet. , but understand that only service animals may be permitted in public shelters. Plan how you will care for your pets in an emergency.
If there is damage to your home or you are instructed to turn off your utilities:
Plan places

If you have a car, keep at least a half tank of gas in it at all times in case you need to evacuate.

Become familiar with alternate routes and other means of transportation out of your area.

If you do not have a car, plan how you will leave if you have to.

Take your emergency supply kit

Lock

Take your pets with you, but understand that only service animals may be permitted in public shelters. Plan how you will care for your pets in an emergency.

If time allows:

Call or email the "out-of-state" contact in your family communications plan.

Tell them where you are going.

If there is damage to your home and you are instructed to do so, shut off water, gas and electricity before leaving.

Leave a note telling others when you left and where you are going.

Check with neighbors who may need a ride.
the door behind you. unless you have reason to believe it has been contaminated. where your family will meet, both within and outside of your immediate neighborhood.
Bring your family and pets inside.

Lock

Turn off

Take your emergency supply kit

Go into an interior room

Seal

Be prepared to improvise and use what you have on hand to seal gaps so that you create a barrier between yourself and any contamination.

Local authorities may not immediately be able to provide information on what is happening and what you should do. However, you should watch TV, listen to the radio or check the Internet often for official news and instructions as it becomes available.
all windows, doors and air vents with plastic sheeting and duct tape. Consider measuring and cutting the sheeting in advance to save time. with few windows, if possible. unless you have reason to believe it has been contaminated. fans, air conditioning and forced air heating systems. doors, close windows, air vents and fireplace dampers.
It may be easier to make a long-distance phone call than to call across town, so an out-of-state contact may be in a better position to communicate among separated family members.

Be sure every member of your family knows the phone number and has coins or a prepaid phone card to call the emergency contact.

You may have trouble getting through
, or the telephone system may be down altogether, but be patient. Emergency Information Find out what kinds of disasters, both natural and man-made, are most likely to occur in your area and how you will be notified. Methods of getting your attention vary from community to community. One common method is to broadcast via emergency radio and TV broadcasts. You might hear a special siren, or get a telephone call, or emergency workers may go door-to-door.

Call the closest chapter of the American Red Cross for emergency information that applies to your community.
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Anti-diarrhea medication

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