Disaster preparedness checklist on a clipboard with disaster relief items in the background.
Family Emergency Preparedness Guide
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Department of Public Safety
Disaster can strike quickly and without warning. It can force you to evacuate your neighborhood or confine you to your home. What would you do if basic services — water, gas, electricity or telephone — were cut off? Local officials and relief workers will be on the scene after a disaster but they cannot reach everyone right away. Medical help may not arrive at all. Tribal resources will be totally over-whelmed in a major disaster.
Families can — and do — cope with disaster by pre-paring in advance and working together as a team. Follow the steps listed in this brochure to create you family's disaster plan. Knowing what to do is your best protection and your responsibility.
Where will your family be when disaster strikes?
They could be anywhere — at work, at school or in the car.●How will you find each other?
●Will you know if your children are safe?
Disaster can strike quickly and without warning. It can force you to evacuate your neighborhood or confine you to your home. What would you do if basic services — water, gas, electricity or telephone — were cut off? Local officials and relief workers will be on the scene after a disaster but they cannot reach everyone right away. Medical help may not arrive at all. Tribal resources will be totally over-whelmed in a major disaster.
Families can — and do — cope with disaster by pre-paring in advance and working together as a team. Follow the steps listed in this brochure to create you family's disaster plan. Knowing what to do is your best protection and your responsibility.
Where will your family be when disaster strikes?
They could be anywhere — at work, at school or in the car.●How will you find each other?
●Will you know if your children are safe:
Steps to Safety
Find Out What Disaster Could Happen to YouNatural; Human; Technological; Winter Storm; Bomb Threat; Structural Failures; Wildland Fire; Fire; Transportation Failures; Earthquake; Utilities Failure; Terrorism; Cold/Heat Wave; Hazardous Materials; Pandemic Influenza.
Create a Disaster Plan
Meet with your family and discuss why you need to prepare for disaster. Explain the dangers of fire, severe weather and earthquakes to children. Plan to share the responsibilities and work together as a team.Discuss the following and explain what to do in each case.
●Pick two places to meet:Right outside you home in case of a sudden emergency, like a fire.
Outside your neighborhood in case you can't return home.
Everyone must know the address and phone number.
Ask an out-of-state friend or relative to be your "Family Contact."
After a disaster, it's often easier to call long distance. Other family member should call this person and tell them where they are. Everyone must know your contact phone number. Discuss what to do in an evacuation. Plan how to take care of your pets.Complete this Checklist
●Post emergency telephone numbers (fire, police, ambulance. Etc)●Teach children how and when to call Dispatch at 238-4000 for Emergency help.
●Show each family member how and when to turn off the water, gas and electricity at the main switches. *Check if you have adequate insurance