Create a Family Disaster Plan
- Meet with your family.
- Learn your home's safety features, including
water/gas/electricity shutoffs and smoke detectors. - Make a list of emergency phone numbers.
- Arrange for back-up child-care, elder-care or pet-care if necessary.
If you are evacuating and would like other family members to know where you are going and that you are okay, sometimes it is best to call an out-of-state number. An out-of-state contact is useful because other family members or friends can call that one number to see which family member checked in and their status. Please plan ahead and have an out-of-state contact already in place. It will bring great peace of mind during an evacuation and/or other emergency.
