September is National Preparedness Month
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Would you be ready if there were an emergency or disaster right here in Highland County?
Be prepared: assemble an emergency supply kit, make your emergency plans, stay informed, and get involved in helping your family, your business, and your community be ready for emergencies.
September is National Preparedness Month and the perfect opportunity to ask yourself if you, your family, business or government agency is ready to face a natural or manmade disaster.
According to Highland County Homeland Security & Emergency Management Director Jim Lyle, “There are four steps to getting ready for a disaster: make a plan, get a kit, be informed and get involved.”
• Get an Emergency Kit: An emergency kit includes the basics for survival: fresh water, food, warmth, medications you need, a lighting source and emergency communications. You should have enough supplies to survive for at least three days.
• Make an Emergency Plan: Make plans with your family and friends in case you're not together during an emergency. Discuss how you'll contact each other, where you'll meet, and what you'll do in different situations. Ask about planning at your workplace and your child's school or daycare center. The US Department of Education gives guidelines for school preparedness. Workers at small, medium, and large businesses should practice for emergencies of all kinds.
• Be Informed: Being prepared means staying informed. Check all types of media – web sites, newspapers, radio, TV, mobile and land phones – for global, national and local information. During an emergency, your local Emergency Management or Emergency Services office will give you information on such things as open shelters and evacuation orders.
• Get Involved: Look into taking first aid and emergency response training, participating in community exercises, and volunteering to support local first responders. Contact the Highland County Citizens Corps which coordinates activities to make communities safer, stronger and better prepared to respond to an emergency situation.
Resources on these topics are available at www.cdc.gov/Features/BeReady/?source=govdelivery.
According to Highland County EMA Director Jim Lyle; “If you’re interested in getting involved in emergency preparedness activities in Highland County, you can go to the Ohio Responds Web Site at www.ohioresponds.odh.ohio.gov/volunteer/ or you can email HighlandCountyCitizenCorp@gmail.com. You can also call the Highland County EMA at 393-5880 or the Highland County Citizens Corp Coordinator at 364-6509."[[In-content Ad]]
Be prepared: assemble an emergency supply kit, make your emergency plans, stay informed, and get involved in helping your family, your business, and your community be ready for emergencies.
September is National Preparedness Month and the perfect opportunity to ask yourself if you, your family, business or government agency is ready to face a natural or manmade disaster.
According to Highland County Homeland Security & Emergency Management Director Jim Lyle, “There are four steps to getting ready for a disaster: make a plan, get a kit, be informed and get involved.”
• Get an Emergency Kit: An emergency kit includes the basics for survival: fresh water, food, warmth, medications you need, a lighting source and emergency communications. You should have enough supplies to survive for at least three days.
• Make an Emergency Plan: Make plans with your family and friends in case you're not together during an emergency. Discuss how you'll contact each other, where you'll meet, and what you'll do in different situations. Ask about planning at your workplace and your child's school or daycare center. The US Department of Education gives guidelines for school preparedness. Workers at small, medium, and large businesses should practice for emergencies of all kinds.
• Be Informed: Being prepared means staying informed. Check all types of media – web sites, newspapers, radio, TV, mobile and land phones – for global, national and local information. During an emergency, your local Emergency Management or Emergency Services office will give you information on such things as open shelters and evacuation orders.
• Get Involved: Look into taking first aid and emergency response training, participating in community exercises, and volunteering to support local first responders. Contact the Highland County Citizens Corps which coordinates activities to make communities safer, stronger and better prepared to respond to an emergency situation.
Resources on these topics are available at www.cdc.gov/Features/BeReady/?source=govdelivery.
According to Highland County EMA Director Jim Lyle; “If you’re interested in getting involved in emergency preparedness activities in Highland County, you can go to the Ohio Responds Web Site at www.ohioresponds.odh.ohio.gov/volunteer/ or you can email HighlandCountyCitizenCorp@gmail.com. You can also call the Highland County EMA at 393-5880 or the Highland County Citizens Corp Coordinator at 364-6509."[[In-content Ad]]