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.