| Looking for ways to teach your family about | | | | expired and need replacing. Kids might have |
| emergency preparedness? Try these emergency | | | | outgrown clothes or shoes in their emergency kits |
| preparedness activities during your next Family | | | | as well. |
| Home Evening: | | | | - Learn how to shut off the gas and water to |
| - Identify safe places in the house and practice an | | | | your house. |
| earthquake drill. | | | | - Check your food and water storage supplies. Do |
| - Review fire safety tips and how to use your | | | | they need to be rotated? Are there foods your |
| household fire extinguisher. | | | | family no longer likes to eat in your stash? |
| - Practice evacuating the house as if there were | | | | - Practice eating a meal without power or gas |
| a fire. Practice evacuating from a few different | | | | from your food storage supply. |
| rooms, especially bedrooms, in the dark as if you | | | | - Review First Aid, CPR, and AED procedures. |
| did not have power. | | | | Where are your first aid kits and AEDs located? |
| - Head outside and talk with your neighbors about | | | | Do your kids know how to call 9-1-1? |
| disaster plans. Identify if neighbors have a special | | | | - Discuss emergency meeting points, both the |
| skill such as medical training or special tools such | | | | one outside your house as well as the one outside |
| as work gloves and chainsaws to clear away | | | | your neighborhood in the event of an evacuation. |
| debris. | | | | Do your kids know where it is located and how |
| - Memorize family contact phone numbers, | | | | to get there? Do they have the address |
| including your out-of-town emergency contact. | | | | memorized? |
| - Check your emergency kits. Where are they | | | | - Discuss what types of emergencies are more |
| stored and do they have everything you need? | | | | likely to occur in your area and how to |
| Some items in your disaster kits may have | | | | appropriately respond. Run mock drills. |