As a result of an emergency or impending emergency, authorities may ask you to leave your home or business for safety reasons.
If you have to evacuate take:
- 72-hour emergency kit.
- Family emergency plan.
- A cell phone (if you have one).
- Your pets and pet supplies.
- Essential medications and prescriptions.
- Leave immediately and use travel routes specified by authorities.
Protect your home:
- Shut off water and electricity if officials tell you to.
- Leave natural gas service on unless officials tell you to turn it off.
- Lock your home.
Shelter-in-Place
Local authorities will advise you to stay in your home until the emergency passes when the air outside is not safe to breathe. They will ask you to shelter-in-place.
When asked to shelter-in-place:
- Close all windows and doors.
- Turn off fans, heating and air conditioning systems.
- Close the fireplace damper.
- Locate your 72-hour emergency kit.
- Move to an interior room above ground level.
- Tape around windows, air ducts, and vents.
- Listen to the radio for updates and do not go outside until authorities say it is safe to do so.