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MAKE A PLAN IN AN EMERGENCY YOU COULD BE:
• Unable to get home
• Confined to your home
Any of these situations can cause stress and panic, but with a plan everyone involved will have a better idea on what to do and where to go.
• Separated from family
• Forced to evacuate.
Talk to your children about your plan and involve them, that way they will remember. Make a game out of rehearsing the plan, it will help to reassure them.
YOUR PLAN SHOULD INCLUDE:
• How and where you will meet following an emergency
• Where emergency items are stored at home and who is responsible for them
• What actions to take around elderly relatives or vulnerable people in your neighbourhood
• Who will be picking up children from day care or school
• Pets and livestock
• Special medication or mobility aids
• How to turn off power, gas and water
• Local radio stations to listen to for information
• Important phone numbers, neighbours, trades people etc
• Location of the “Get Away Bag”
• Schools or early childhood centres will only release children to named adults on their system given to them by parents or approved caregivers.