Emergency Communication Plan

Family Communications

Your family may not be together when a disaster strikes or may get separated during the disaster, so plan how you will contact one another.  Complete a contact card for each family member with important telephone numbers. Have each family member keep a copy of this information at home, work, school, and in their cars.

Establish an “out-of-state” contact for family members to check in with if they can’t reach each other locally. It is often easier to call outside the area of a disaster than locally.

Documents

Keep copies of records in a waterproof, fireproof container. Important items to keep copies of are:

• Driver's license, passport, social security card, immunization, and proof of address
• Important records such as birth certificates, marriage certificates, and death certificates
• Bank and credit card account numbers and records
• Inventory of valuable household goods
• Wills, insurance policies, contracts, deeds, stocks and bonds
• Pet vaccination and veterinarian records