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Make a Plan.
Overview
Your family may not be together when disaster strikes, so it is important to plan in advance: how you will contact one another; how you will get back together; and what you will do in different situations.
Contact your household members' workplaces, organizations, and schools for information on their emergency plans.
Start with a well-conceived plan:
- Discuss with your household the types of emergencies that could occur in your area and what to do in each case.
- Learn Work, School, and Community Plans
- Establish responsibilities for each household member so you can work as a team.
- Pick two places to meet: one near your home in case of a local emergency, like a fire, and the second outside your neighborhood in case of larger-scale emergencies.
- Maintain an up-to-date emergency contact card with addresses and phone numbers.
- Choose an out-of-area friend or relative as a contact for everyone to call. It's often easier to call out-of-area during a large-scale emergency.
- Include your pets in an evacuation plan. Have items for your pet in your disaster supplies kit and "Go Bag."
- Teach adult household members when and how to turn off electricity, water and gas.
- Tell household members where emergency information and supplies are kept.
- Practice evacuating your home twice a year. Take your planned evacuation route, then map out alternative routes in case main roads are impassible.
- Include your neighbors in your emergency plan.
Use the Online Family Emergency Planning Tool created by the Ready Campaign in conjunction with the Ad Council to prepare a printable Comprehensive Family Emergency Plan.
Use the Quick Share application to help your family in assembling a quick reference list of contact information for your family, and a meeting place for emergency situations.
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