Disaster Preparedness Tips

For Families:

• Make sure your family has a plan in case of an emergency. Before an emergency happens, sit down together and decide how you will get in contact with each other, where you will go and what you will do in an emergency.


• Determine a neighborhood meeting place, a regional meeting place and an evacuation location.

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2010 Winter Weather Preparedness Tips

I came across this press release from FEMA and thought it would be useful for winter travelers. Unless of course you traveling to Florida, in that case don't forget your sunscreen and enjoy the ocean air! For the rest of us, here are the winter weather tips and reminders. Remember everyone, Be Prepared and Plan Ahead!

FEMA ENCOURAGES WINTER WEATHER PREPAREDNESS

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2009 Hurricane Season Ends Quietly

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate has some sound reminders for us. I thought I would pass them on.

“I can never remind people enough to stay prepared for potential disasters.  We must never let our guard down.  I am thankful for a quieter than usual hurricane season, but the fact remains disasters may occur at any time and without warning, said FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate. “As we head into the winter season, we must all remain vigilant and remember to take the time to prepare ourselves and our families.  Assemble a kit, have a family disaster plan and stay informed during disasters.”   

Visit: www.ready.gov or www.fema.gov for more preparedness information

Preparing For the Swine Influenza

We are all concerned about the spread of the swine influenze and nervously await its arrival in Georgia. Below is an excerpt of Dr. Richard Besser's, Acting Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, remarks from the press briefing held April 26 on what we can do to prepare ourselves. 

"It's important that people understand that there's a role for everyone to play when there's an outbreak going on. There are things that individuals do, there's things that families do, communities do to try and reduce the impact. At the individual level, it's important people understand how they can prevent respiratory infections. Very frequent hand-washing is something that we talk about time and time again and that is an effective way to reduce transmission of disease. If you're sick, it's very important that people stay at home. If your children are sick, have a fever and flu-like illness, they shouldn't go to school. And if you're ill, you shouldn't get on an airplane or another public transport to travel. Those things are part of personal responsibility in trying to reduce the impact.

So it's time for people to be thinking — forward-thinking about, well, if it were my child's school, what would I do, how would I be prepared for that kind of an event. We view the public as partners in the efforts to try and control what's going on.

There are a number of sources of information. I want people to know that the CDC web site — www.cdc.gov — has our latest information on swine flu. There's a link from there to very current information and there's a link there to a Spanish language site as well."

Read the entire transcript of the press briefing

Icela Reets - Emergency Response Program Coordinator