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Don’t wait. Plan now. How you prepare will affect how you recover from any emergency.

Sign up now for AlertLongBeach. You will receive ALERTS via phone, text or e-mail, including up-to-date emergency information and instructions.

Map out your evacuation routes. Have a strategy for protecting Identify recommended tsunami your pets. evacuation routes and safety zones Purchase two NOAA Weather near you. Plan two different routes Radios- one for home and one for you can use to leave. Consider work. NOAA will be broadcasting what routes you would use at night continuous alerts and instructions or in stormy weather. during the tsunami. A large Address disabilities or functional selection of NOAA Weather Radios needs. If you or a family member is available online. require help evacuating, prearrange Create a personal support Network. TSUNAMI help from neighbors or with service Include family, friends and others providers. Include plans to transport who may assist you. Be sure all PREPAREDNESS mobility devices and durable members of your network know how GUIDE medical equipment. If you are to contact each other. Create a list mobility impaired, allow for the extra of important contacts and numbers. Learn • Plan • Survive time that you may need. Be sure to identify a friend or relative Have a plan for reuniting with your in another state or region for you and loved ones. Decide when and your household members to contact where you will meet if you are to provide information on your separated. Be aware that mobile well-being. phones and the internet may not work during an emergency.

City of Long Beach Department of Disaster 2990 Redondo Avenue Preparedness and Long Beach, CA 90806 Emergency Communications This information is available in alternative formats by request to 562-570-9250 www.longbeach.gov What you should do during a Tsunami Evacuation Routes- tsunami emergency. Know the Way to Safety.

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S Community Hospital Of Long Beach other purposes. They are based on the best T 1720 Termino Ave currently available data and are subject to change and updates. Take your 5-day emergency kit that you have Long Beach Memorial Medical Center & ORANGE ZONES ARE BASED ON THE OFFICIAL STATE Miller Children's Hospital TSUNAMI HAZARD MAPS FOR EVACUATION PLANNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF THE ORANGE ZONE DO NOT NEED already assembled when you evacuate. 2801 Atlantic Ave TO EVACUATE. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND Keep the items that you would most likely Familiarize yourself with evacuation DETAILED MAPS, VISIT WWW.TSUNAMI.CA.GOV. need for evacuation in a backpack, duffel map routes, landmarks, and flood areas. bag or a wheeled cooler in an easily Plan secondary routes as backup. accessible location.

More information on building a kit is Revised October 15 available on the city’s website: This document was prepared under a grant from FEMA’s Grant Programs Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Points of view or opinions expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of FEMA’s Grant Programs Directorate or the U.S. Department of www.longbeach.gov/disasterpreparedness/ Homeland Security. MAP AND DESIGN WORK PROVIDED BY TEAM LED BY PROF. CLAUDINE JAENICHEN AND DR. STEVE SCHANDLER, WAYFINDING FOR DISASTER PLANNING, AT CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY IN ORANGE, CALIFORNIA.