Redmond Community Organizations Active In Disasters

Disaster Preparation

  

Real benefits to being prepared

• Can reduce fear, anxiety, and losses that accompany disasters. Communities, , families, and individuals should know what to do in the event of a major disaster
  
  
• People can also reduce the impact of disasters by preparing their home or business, avoiding the danger completely.

  The need to prepare is real

• Disasters disrupt hundreds of thousands of lives every year. Each disaster has lasting effects to both people and property.
  
  
• If a disaster happens in our community, local government and disaster relief organizations will try to help, but you need to be ready as well. Local responders may not be able to reach you immediately, or may have to focus their resources elsewhere.
  
  
• You should know how to respond to severe weather or any disaster that can occur in our area
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• You should be self-sufficient for at least three days. This means being able to provide for your own shelter, first aid, food, water, & sanitation

Personal and family preparedness

Personal preparedness includes being ready for emergencies at home, in your car, or anywhere else you may spend time. These preparedness efforts are a team effort. King County Office of Emergency Management provides information and resources to help you better prepare for the possibility of an emergency or disaster.

What you do now can help you and your family better respond to and recover from disaster, as well as contribute to the overall readiness of our region?

These three steps that will help you start down the path of being better prepared.

	Your family may not be together when disaster strikes, so it is important to plan in advance: how you will contact one another; how you will get back together; and what you will do in different situations
	You may need to survive on your own after an emergency. This means having your own food, water, and other supplies in sufficient quantity to last for at least three days. Local officials and relief workers will be on the scene after a disaster, but they cannot reach everyone immediately. You could get help in hours, or it might take days. In addition, basic services such as electricity, gas, water, sewage treatment, and telephones may be cut off for days, or even a week or longer.
	There are important differences among potential emergencies that will impact the decisions you make and the actions you take. Learn more about the potential emergencies that could happen where you live and the appropriate way to respond to them. In addition, learn about the emergency plans that have been established in your area by your state and local government

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