Looking for ways to teach your family about emergency preparedness? Try these emergency preparedness activities during your next Family Home Evening:

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

There can be a chance for a disaster to strike maybe at unpredictable times. As there may not be enough time to prepare for such events, it can be a good idea and step to make necessary preparations in early times because there may not be enough resources available to survive after a disastrous event if necessary steps are not taken.

In an emergency, the resources of a group can decrease significantly and some time may be needed to restore some of the resources and facilities. Due to lack of facilities, it can prove to be a good idea that some backup is kept to fulfill the basic needs of the human being.

Food and water should be at the top of the emergency preparedness plan because a human needs food and water to remain conscious and alive. The food kept should be useable without storage and cooking issue. After a disaster or power outage, absence of electric supply can be faced due to which there may be no way to heat and cook the food.

Storage and freezing facilities also possibly cannot be accessed so the food should last and remain eatable without storage. Such food products can also be known as non-perishable food. Water should also be kept and water purification tablets should also be kept in case the water may get contaminated.

Preparing for the night time should also be part of the total plan. A hand powered flashlight and radio should be kept for lighting and listening to the recovery status on the radio. Extra batteries should also be kept because they can be used in any utility and can also power up a flashlight and radio for longer operation time. Warm clothes and blankets can also be used for keeping the body warm in cold weather.

Another necessity of human is sanitation. So, a few sanitation products should also be kept in order to help in this purpose. One thing that can matter is that a person should also prepare their mind that an emergency can occur which we may have to face. A prepared mind can work efficiently and remain relatively calm enabling it to think better.

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