EMERGENCY PLAN

An Emergency plan includes normally some of the following themes:

Map
- The official emergency network where you live
- Where you can get help and how to get there
- How to reach help and how to make sure that they will respond
- How to communicate with the help
  - Telephone
  - Internet
  - Visit
  - Radio
- Family plan
  - Prepare the family as an unit
  - Train as an unit
  - Know what to bring (supplies and important papers) when leaving fast
  - Divide responsibilities
- Who are your REAL trustable friends
- Plan how to protect your home and valuables
  - While you are at home
  - While you are gone
    - Physical
      - Barricades
      - Arms
    - Mental
      - Pep talk
      - Monitoring
Evacuation routes
- Know where to go and how to get there
  - Have alternative routes
  - Official – and secret one
  - Sometimes the route is to cross proprieties of others
- Know when to go
  - Timing; make key markers for evacuation f. ex:
  - When the fire reach that three run
- Train multiple “what if”-scenarios
  - Repeat many times
Shelter/ hideouts
- Locate – and create shelters/ hideouts where you live
  - Consider different emergencies, EG.
    - Earthquake
    - Flooding
    - War
    - Fire
    - Volcanic eruption
  - Find different options
    - In your home
    - Close to your home, work and school
    - According to relevant possible threats

Should be outside the hazard area
- Depending on hazard or emergency
Normally the shelter/ hideout is at home, with friends, at work, hotels, parks, a deserted place or a mass shelter
- Depending of what you are hiding from you need to calculate you optimal shelter/ hideout

If it is no time to leave for a safe territory, create an instant shelter yourself!

4. Know when to evacuate, what to bring and when to stay put

For how long can you stay in your house
Do your house need extra enforcement and – security
Do you need go to a public shelter if…?
- Fire, hurricanes, earthquake or floods
- War
Act quickly and bring the important items (Some clothes, important papers, weapons, water and food)
Remember often evacuating is more dangerous than staying
- Know the parameters
- Calculate the risk
Know how to search temporary shelters
- Find shelters everyplace you go

Know how to seal a room
Decide when to leave for another shelter
- Make emergency rules
- EG. maximum 12 hours in a hideout

5. Family and friends

Not all are friends is friends, and not all family is trustworthy
- Minimum not forever
- Never reveal all your secrets, they might turn against you
Everybody need to know what to do and where to go
Plan with multiple shelters
- Not all can use the same shelter when the disaster comes

6. Food and Water

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It will be less water than normal and you will run out of water
Prepare a storage of water and food in your home
- This might last a week or months
- Remember you might be without gas, electricity and water to prepare food
- Don’t tell others about this storage, they might steal it or move to your house

Find where authorities will give food and water in an emergency
- Even though you have or don’t have food and water, act as you don’t have
Learn how to disinfect water to create drinking water
Remember to save food and water when the disaster strikes

7. Medicine/ First aid

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Learn basic paramedical -, nursing skills and prolonged medical care
The medical system will be down after a disaster, plan accordingly
- You will be alone!
Prepare a medical kit and train how to use it
- Remember you will work under bad conditions, no books and nobody to ask
- Be prepared
- Train medical situations

8. Arms

Most likely you need to protect yourself
- Learn self-protection
- Learn self-defence
Prepare arms for defending yourself, your family and your home
Store those weapons in different strategic places
Train all the people in the house to defend themselves
Know the local law in this regard!