Home Disaster Planning Guide

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Home Disaster Planning Guide

• Stroger Hospital of Cook County
• Department of Emergency Medicine
• August 2006

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What Type of Disaster Could Happen?

• Extreme Temperature Heat wave or cold snap
• Loss of Energy no heat or cooling no potable
  water reduced travel or supply delivery
• Fire, Flood, Earthquake
• Infectious disease outbreak
• Destructive Force Explosion, tornado, bombing

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Identify Specific Hazards in Your Area!

• Look Around
• NaturalRivers that flood, ocean
  tsunamiEarthquake fault lines that cause
  earthquakesTornado, hurricane risk
• Man-MadeTrains that derailAirplanes that crash
• BuildingsChemical factory causing fire or
  Haz-Mat eventNuclear Power Plant

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What Predicament Might you Be In?

• Caught at work, school, out of town
• Need to evacuate
• Separated from family
• Unable to communicate
• Unable to travel
• Unable to obtain necessities (water/food,
  shelter/clothes)
• Become Disabled (injured, ill, blinded)

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What Do You Your Family Do?

• Communication
• Travel
• Work
• School
• Child care
• Elder care
• Worship
• Community Activities

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What Do We Need Every Day?

• Water
• Shelter
• Clothing
• Food
• Medication
• Waste Disposal

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OK???

• How do you approach a family disaster plangiven
  these possibilities?
• Use a step by step approach..
• Imagine the following
• What type of event could happen? (hazards)
• What could be your predicament
• What activities do you do every day?
• What necessities do you need every day?

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Scenario 1

• Type of Event Extreme cold Power goes out
• Predicament Communications out Children at
  school
• Necessities No water stored Water pipes
  freeze No warm clothes
• Everyday Activity Drive kids to
  school Roads closed

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Scenario 2

• Type of Event Foundry Explodes
• Hugh Fire
• Predicament Mass Evacuation Roads closed,
  it is winter
• Necessities Warm clothes Gloves, hats,
  shoes, coats?
• Everyday Activity Elderly neighbors Elder
  care

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Scenario 3

• Type of Event Explosions on bus/trains
• All buses/trains evacuated
• Predicament You are at work
• Kids at school (went by bus)
• Necessities Cell networks land lines out
• Everyday Activity Children go by bus to
  relative You pick up after work

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Family Disaster Plan

• Go through the major event and predicaments
• Decide what supplies you need to pack
• Focus on alternate methods of communication
• This seems like a lot of events and predicaments,
  But, most of the preparations are the same
• Educate all family members on emergency plans,
  alternate communications and transportation

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Do You Have A Plan?

• Learn what to do in an emergency before the
  emergency happens!!!