SAFE DISASTER TIPS

Preparedness
An everyday task for everyday life

Being prepared for emergencies is crucial at home, school, work and in your community.

Disaster can strike quickly and without warning. It can force you to evacuate your neighborhood, workplace or school or can confine you to your home. What would you do if basic services – water, gas, electricity or telephones – were cut off?

Local officials and relief workers will be on the scene after a disaster, but they cannot reach everyone right away. The best way to make you and your family safer is to be prepared before disaster strikes. We encourage you to:

Get a Kit (order from www.safedisaster.com)
Make a Plan
Be Informed

In the midst of rushing through everyday life, it's important to take a minute or two to prepare for emergencies. Being prepared helps you and your family minimize the impact of a disaster such as a hurricane or an emergency such as a broken leg.

The best way to make your family and your home safer is to be prepared before disaster strikes.

Get a Kit
Build a disaster supplies kit that includes enough supplies for each family member for three days. Remember to check your kit every six months.

Make a Plan
Make a family communications plan that includes an evacuation plan and coordinates with your school, work and community communication plans. Practice this plan with your entire family.
Be Informed
Know what may happen and how you can help
Learn what disasters or emergencies may occur where you live, work and play and how they can affect you, your family and community
Identify how authorities will notify you and how you will get important information
Learn what you can do to prepare by contacting your local chapter of the American Red Cross to ask about first aid, CPR and disaster training
Share what you have learned

Download the award-winning Masters of Disaster® disaster preparedness curriculum, which is designed to teach children how to prevent, prepare for and respond to disasters and other emergencies


TIP OF THE DAY

Family First

Check your child's school Web site or call the school office to request a copy of the school's emergency plans. Keep a copy at home and work.

Learn where the safe places are in your home for each type of disaster. Learn about the disaster plans at your business, your child's school or daycare center, or other places where you and your family spend time.

Safe Disaster

Hello All,

We are a local distributor offering the very best survival kit products available on the market today and we are based out of Santa Clarita and distributing Nationwide. We are proud to be advertising with your Hometown Station KHTS AM1220.
We recently searched to purchase first aid kits to keep in our home as we have a 15, 17, and 8 year old kids. All this talk about earthquakes and terrorist attacks, fires, has reminded us that we were not as prepared as we should have been. It has been said that only 7% of americans are prepared for any type of emergency. (ARE YOU PREPARED??)

This made us aware that we all need to take part in getting prepared and also networking with neighbors to check resources....remember without electricity, gas, phone lines, retail.....do you have enough resources in your house or car to take care of everyone in your family including PETS?Tornadoes. Hurricanes. Earthquakes. You never know when they will strike and you have to be well prepared for when the unexpected arrives. To get started we recommend basic emergency & disaster supplies. Get one step closer to being prepared for what life may send your way.

Everyone has a responsibility to carefully plan and prepare in advance to be comletely self-sustaining for at least one month after a disaster strikes. We relize that preparing for a disaster is overwhelming if attempted all at once, or after the disaser strikes...when it's too late.

While much attention is given to hurricanes, emergencies happen in communities across the country daily from power outages to tornadoes to wildfires. But despite these every day occurrences, Americans still have not made preparedness a part of their everyday lives. By taking some simple steps to prepare, Americans will have the basic capabilities to take on any disaster and allow responders to focus on those who can’t take care of themselves first.

There are six basics you should stock for your home:

• Water


• Food


• First aid supplies


• tools/emergency supplies


• Clothing/Bedding

Following an earthquake or other disaster, it is important to monitor local radio, television and other media resources for information about where to get emergency housing, food, medical attention, and financial assistance.

Assistance to families and individuals will come from a number of organizations. The American Red Cross and Salvation Army are often set up right away to offer immediate medical, food and housing needs. In the Santa Clarita Valley there are other volunteer organizations including churches and synagogues that are often involved as well.

After the disaster the City of Santa Clarita offers information and referrals to help people in shelters, and with locations of resources for direct assistance. The City will provide information to residents via:

• Local Media


• Channel 20: SCVTV


• Radio: KHTS AM 1220


• City website: http://www.santa-clarita.com/


• City Facilities


• Public Libraries


• Senior Center Facilities


• Informational Handouts

In the event of a severe disaster, the federal government is also called in to help individuals and families with temporary housing, counseling, low interest loans and grants, and other types of public assistance. Businesses, schools and farmers are also eligible for aid.

This Federal assistance becomes available when the President of the United States declares a "Major Disaster" at the request of the State's governor. When this happens, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) sets up Disaster Application Centers to process applications. FEMA also uses an 800-phone number to register disaster applications as well. The number to call is announced via television, radio, newspapers, and throughout the City's various information networks.

Our QuakeDog Distributorship offers the finest survival products available on the market. We recommend purchasing survival kits for your home and your car.

Only 7% of Americans are prepared for an emergency. The way to always be prepared is to always have your emergency kit at hand. To us, this means the TRUNK of your car. If you get caught in a blizzard or become trapped away from home, you'll always be prepared.

Please browse our site at your leisure and let us know what we can do to help you find the kit that's right for you. Thank you and stay safe.

http://www.safedisaster.com/

or call 661-310-0388