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Emergency Action Plan

Date

First, right now

  1. 1Are you and everyone with you safe from immediate danger? Move first, think after.
  2. 2Check for injuries, give help, call emergency services.
  3. 3Check for gas, smoke, standing water, structural damage. No lights if you smell gas.
  4. 4Get your bearings. What happened, is it still happening, is it spreading toward you.

Decide: stay or go

  1. 1Go if: structural damage, gas, fire, rising water, an evacuation order, or the hazard is closing in.
  2. 2Stay if the hazard has passed, the building is sound, and leaving is riskier than staying.
  3. 3When unsure and you can still leave safely, leave. Staying wrong is harder to undo than going wrong.

If you are staying

  1. 1Shut off gas, water or electricity only if you smell gas or see damage to a line.
  2. 2Account for everyone in the household by name.
  3. 3Check what food and water you actually have on hand against the Emergency Food Supply Checklist.
  4. 4Get information from wherever you can: radio, official channels, neighbours, social media.
  5. 5Send one message to your out-of-area contact: safe, staying, location.

If you are going

  1. 1Grab the bag for each person, Evacuation Bag Checklist.
  2. 2Grab the documents - Documents and Financial Checklist.
  3. 3Take medications, especially anything on prescription that is hard to replace, First Aid Kit Checklist.
  4. 4Send one message to your out-of-area contact: leaving, destination, rough timing.
  5. 5Lock up if there is time.

The four checklists

€9 Documents and Financial Checklist Free Evacuation Bag Checklist €9 First Aid Kit Checklist €9 Emergency Food Supply Checklist