• Introduction: Preparing for an emergency
• Quick Checklist
• Your emergency preparedness kit
• Keeping informed
• Contact information
• Handling mail safely
• Reporting suspicious activity
• When electrical power is lost
• Emergency shelter
• Checking on relatives and neighbors
• Evacuation
• Chemical/biological emergencies
• Emergency planning for pets
• Emergency planning for businesses
• Making financial preparations
• Children in school
• Keeping warm
• Links to Additional Information

Falcon Heights Home Guide to Emergency Preparedness

Introduction: Preparing for an Emergency

Emergency events can occur quickly and without warning.

Planning for any emergency requires considering all likely scenarios.

If you are able to stay at home, electricity, water, heat, air conditioning, telephone service and transportation could be disrupted or lost for a considerable amount of time. Most emergency management planners suggest having enough food, water and other essentials on hand to last your family for three to five days for weather-related events, for example.

In other types of emergencies, you may have to evacuate your home or community.

In any case, it is important to develop a household disaster plan that includes:

• An emergency communications plan. Choose an out-of-town person to be your contact point for family members to call if you are separated. Make sure everyone has the number.
• At least two emergency meeting places. Pick one right outside your home in case of a sudden emergency, such as fire. Pick at least one other place outside your neighborhood in case you can't return home.
• A disaster supplies kit.
• Information about school and workplace emergency plans.

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