Home Safety Month is a perfect time to prepare yourself and your family for an emergency. Planning ahead can keep you and your family safe if a flood, fire, flu pandemic, terrorist attack, or other public health emergency strikes.
Take these steps to prepare for an emergency:
Do a walk-through of your home. Check your smoke alarms, child safety locks, and first aid supplies.
1. Have a mock emergency in order to see what items you would really need in order to survive a disaster in your home 2.
Make a scavenger hunt for children in order to see what items you have,
or you may need, in your home (i.e. carbon monoxide detector, smoke
detectors, stored canned goods and bottled water, fire extinguisher
etc.)
3. Contact the American Red Cross or the Center for Disease Control
and ask what else YOU could be doing to make your home a safer place