Emergency Preparation

Emergency Preparation

andResponse Plan

Family Home Evening Lessons

“If ye are prepared, ye shall not fear.”

D&C 38:30

Emergency Preparation and Response Plan

Family Home Evening Lessons

Tab #1Lesson #1

Introducing the Community Emergency Preparation and Response Plan to your family

Tab #2Lesson #2

Make a Plan for your family in the event of a fire or emergency situation

Tab #3Lesson #3

Organize your family documents, compile vital statistics, fill out important information forms

Tab #4Lesson #4

Prepare your family financially for an emergency and how to recover financially from an emergency

Tab #5Lesson #5

Prepare for a power blackout, heatwave, and thunderstorm

Tab #6Lesson #6

Securing your home. Prepare/update a 72-hour kit

Tab #7Lesson #7

Water Storage

Tab #8Additional activity ideas and checklists to help prepare your family for emergency situations

Community

Emergency Preparation and Response Plan

Lesson #1

Outline

In this month’s lesson, your family will have the opportunity to:

1)Discuss types of potential emergencies that may affect our area;

2)Discuss the Community Emergency Preparation and Response Plan;

3)Discuss what a Street Captain is and who has been assigned as your family’s Street Captain;

4)Discuss what will happen in the event of an emergency after your family has been contacted by your Street Captain.

5)Do a word search with Emergency Preparation words for an activity.

6)Make a dessert using items from your food storage.

What type of emergencies might affect our area?

“Prepare ye, prepare ye for that which is to come,

for the Lord is nigh;”

Doctrine & Covenants 1:12

There are two basic types of emergency events: “developing” and “catastrophic”. The developing event is an emergency that worsens over time and has a wider range of severity. A catastrophic event is an emergency which is abrupt in timing and acute in severity. The plausible emergencies to strike our area include the following:

Discuss the following types of events with your family and what each event may entail. Also discuss the impact that the event may have on your family and home, for example, in the event of a tornado, our area would experience extremely strong winds and rain. Our home may experience a good amount of damage which may require our family to be relocated to a different location for an extended period.

FireSevere Storm

Hazardous material spillFlooding

TornadoEarthquake

Mob/Gang violenceTrain Wreck

Plane CrashBiological attack

Nuclear attackHeatwave

Power BlackoutsDrought

TerrorismPandemic

What is the Community Emergency Plan, and how will our family respond if there is an emergency?

Discuss the Plan that has been developed with your family as outlined below.

The Community Preparedness Committee could develop a plan to respond to potential emergencies as follows:

In the event of an emergency:

Street Captains will check on area residents and determine extent of damage and residents’ needs. Street Captains will arrange for shelter for those in need.

Street captains will report residents’ status to the Neighborhood Captain, who will then report to the Bishop (or designated person).

At the time of the emergency, a communications specialist (ideally a HAM operator) will go to the designated meeting spot and will coordinate communication to the stake and area using the prearranged protocols: telephone, radio, and/or messenger.

Notify Red Cross for further instruction.

Assist with evacuations if needed.

What is a Street Captain and who is our family’s assigned Street Captain?

The community could break the ward boundaries down to a street level to allow every area resident to be accounted for by the street they live on. The street your family lives on has one person, the Street Captain, who has been trained in how they will respond to an emergency event, and how they will account for all area residents on their street. In the event of an emergency, your family will need to be in contact with the Street Captain to discuss the state of your family and any needs you may be experiencing. Also, if there is an evacuation, the Street Captain will need to make sure each of the residents and families they have been assigned to have been accounted for. In the next lesson you will be making a list of all phone numbers you might need in case of a disaster.

What happens after we contact our

Street Captain?

Once your family has contacted your Street Captain to make sure he knows you and your family are accounted for, your needs will be assessed, then all area residents’ status will be reported to the Neighborhood Captains. Your family will not need to contact the Neighborhood Captains, unless you are unable to contact your Street Captain.

After the status of the residents has been reported to the Neighborhood Captains, evaluations will be made for further care needed. Please note who your Neighborhood Captain is now. Next month you will be adding their information to your list in the event of an emergency.

Street Captain Information Sheet

Please fill out the following information regarding your family and give this sheet to your Street Captain to help him compile his information regarding the families he is in charge of in the event of an emergency. Please include information regarding all members living in the household, even if they are not an immediate family member.

Family Name:______

Address:______

Home Phone Number:______

Members of Household: