The following items are what make up your family plan in our Emergency Preparedness Plan. The full checklists are available on the excel spreadsheet or pdf plan.
It’s a good idea to be on the same page with your family as to what you would do in case of an emergency. Review these concepts every few months as we all can be forgetful.
□ meet with family members to discuss how to respond to the dangers of fire, severe weather, earthquakes, and other emergencies.
□ find the safe spots in your home for each type of disaster
□ discuss what to do about power outages and injuries
□ draw a floor plan of your home and mark two escape routes from each route
□ post emergency phone numbers near telephones
□ teach children how and when to call 911, police, and fire
□ instruct family members to turn on the radio for information
□ pick one out-of-state and one local friend/family member to call in a disaster
□ teach children the phone numbers
□ pick two reunion locations, one right outside of your home, and one away from your neighborhood in case you cannot return
□ take a basic first aid and CPR class
Here is a list of contact information it would be wise to have figured out ahead of time, and stored in a safe place.
Out-of-State-Contact:
Name:
City:
Telephone:
Local Contact:
Name:
Telephone:
Nearest Relative:
Name:
City:
Telephone:
Family Work Numbers:
Mother:
Father:
Other:
Emergency Telephone Numbers:
Police Department:
Fire Department:
Hospital:
Family Physicians:
Name:
Telephone:
Name:
Telephone:
Reunion Locations:
Right outside home:
Address:
Away from home:
Address:
Telephone:
Route to try first:
Thanks for the advices, I'm reading this emergency family plan, I don't know why we don't learn this things here in Argentina. Gracias por tener esta web. Saludos
Estela
My brothers and sisters and I just realized that we all go through our mom to pass around information. When we had a death in our extended family, we could not get hold of each other since my parents were on vacation out of the country. We did finally reach each other by e-mail and our nieces and nephews texting each other and calling parents. I had already started gathering information and this will give me one place to have it all together.
These are such basic, logical info to have – why haven't we done this already? Thanks for the nudge!
Ladies, I will have a booth at this Saturday's Northwest Arkansas Emergency Preparedness fair (http://www.nwapreparednessfair.com/images/flyer...). Our booth is called “Congregational Preparedness and Planning” and is designed to show the community our strengths as a Church in preparing for emergencies. We will be mostly talking about our “Chain of Communication” (i.e. Home Teaching/Visiting Teaching), our database of member information and resources, and how we encourage personal and family preparedness. One of the examples I will be using will be YOUR Family Plan. Keep up the good work!!!
Sounds like a great event! We're excited you'll be using our family plan. Let us know how it goes!
Thank you for the list, we know most of these things but don't have them written down or a place to meet up. This is so important. I am making a Binder for each of my 11 children with this information. Thank you for making this so accessible to everyone.
Thank you for this list, I'll start it straight away.
Thank you for this list, I'll start it straight away.
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