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Home Emergency Supplies

Preparation

Know how and where to shut off utilities.

Draw a floor plan of your home showing location of exit doors and windows, utilities shutoffs,first aid kit, and emergency supplies. Ensure that everyone is familiar with it.

Establish two reunion locations where your family can meet following an emergency. Onejust outside your home and another site away from home.

Establish an out of area contact person for family members to calland report their location and condition. Everyone should memorizethis number.

Ask about your childrens schools disaster policies and make sureany medical consent forms are complete and current.

Before a Disaster

Inspect your home. Identify potentialhazards and evacuation routes.

Secure water heater and tall or heavyfurniture to wall sides.

Install clips, latches and other lockingdevices on cabinet doors.

Provide strong support and flexibleconnections on gas appliances.

Move heavy items to lower shelves.

Review and practice your emergency plan.

Remove or isolate and secure flammablematerials.

Learn how to protect yourself from fallingobjects, smoke, fire, toxic fumes, etc.

Learn First Aid & CPR. Keep a list of who inyour family is trained, and their trainingexpiration dates.

Contact Salvation Army EmergencyDisaster Services for information on freeFirst Aid & CPR training. Call (619) 231-6000.

During an Earthquake

If you are indoors

STAY THERE. Move away from windows, book cases, and tall shelves. Get under a table ordesk and hold on to it. Be prepared to move with it and hold that position until the shakingstops. If there is no desk or table to get under, brace yourself in an interior corner. Watch forfalling, flying, and sliding objects.

If you are in a mobile home resting on A-frame supports

Get on top of a bed or sofa and cover your head and face. If the mobile home slips off thesupports they may penetrate the flooring and cause injuries.

If you are outdoors

Move to an open area away from buildings, trees, power poles, brick orblock walls and other objects that could fall.

If you are in an automobile

Stop and stay in it until the shaking ends. Avoid stopping near trees and

power lines or on or under overpasses or bridges.

If you are in a high-rise building

Get under a desk and hold on, or crouch next to aninterior wall until the shaking stops. DO NOT USETHE ELEVATOR TO EVACUATE. Use the stairs.

If you are in a store

Get under a table or any sturdy object. Avoid stop-ping under anything that could fall. DO NOT RUNFOR THE EXIT. Choose your exit carefully and followinstructions of store personnel.

If You Evacuate

Prominently post a messageindicating where you can befound and the date and timeyou left.

Take with you: medicines, firstaide kit, flashlight, radio, batter-ies, important papers and cash,food, blankets, and extra clothes.

Make arrangements for pets.

After a Disaster

Put on heavy shoes immediately to avoidinjury from stepping on glass.

Locate a light source, such as a flashlight, ifnecessary.

Check for injuries and administer first aid.

Check for fires an fire hazards.

Check on your neighbors.

Listen for advisories using a battery pow-ered radio. The primary Emergency AlertSystem station for San Diego County isKOGO AM 600. The secondary station is

KLSD AM 1360. Do not touch downed power lines or objects

touching downed wires. Do not stand inwater near downed power lines.

Check house, roof, and chimney fordamage.

Do not use the phone except in emergen-cies. Only call 911 for life threatening emer-gencies.

For general and updated disaster informa-tion, call 211 (858-300-1211 from a cellphone).

Do NOT go sightseeing!

Be prepared for aftershocks.

Open and close cupboards carefully.

Cooperate with public safety officials.

Be prepared to evacuate when/if necessary.

Your emergency supplies should be enough to sustain you, your family and pets for a mini-

mum of 72 hours. A two week supply of medicines and prescription drugs is recommended. Basic: water (1 gal/person/day), first aid kit & book, manual can opener, battery operated

watch or clock, blankets/sleeping bags for each family member, portable battery operatedradio, flashlight (spare bulbs & batteries), fire extinguisher, food (canned or dehydrated, pre-cooked and/or requiring minimum heat or water)

Sanitation: large plastic trash bags, pre-moistened towelettes, newspapers, handsoap, liquiddetergent, shampoo, toothpaste & brush, dentures, feminine supplies, infant supplies, toiletpaper, paper towels, powdered chlorinated lime (add to sewage to deodorize/disinfect)

Safety: heavy shoes, heavy gloves, candles, waterproof matches, garden hose, knife/razorblades, clothes

Cooking: plastic bags (various sizes, sealable), paper plates, plastic utensils, paper towels,pots (at least two), barbeque or gas grill, charcoal and lighter or propane, Sterno stove

Water: To purify drinking water use one of the following methodsboil for one full minute(let cool completely before use); or add 8 drops (1/4/ tsp) of household bleach per gallonclear water, 16 drops for cloudy water, mix well and let stand for 30 minutes; waterpurification tablets. Adapted from materials distributed by San Diego Co. Office of Emergency Services

http://sdcounty.ca.gov/oes