Familiarize yourself with school, work and care-facility plans for staying inside/sheltering-in-place and evacuation.ĭuring any radiation emergency, follow the radiation protection principles of time, distance, and shielding.

Make plans with friends or family to identify safe places to stay if you need to evacuate. Identify an out-of-state contact who you can inform of your whereabouts and safety. Decide where your family will meet if you cannot meet at home. Make a Family Emergency Communications Plan.Include a spare change of clothes for each family member, a trash bag for contaminated clothing, and sealed food, water and medicine. Have a battery-powered or hand crank radio, which will continue to work if other forms of communication fail.

Sign up for community alerts in your area from your local emergency management agency to receive timely and specific information for your area. Download the FEMA App and receive real-time alerts from the National Weather Service for up to five locations nationwide.

Have several ways to receive emergency alerts.

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