Are You Ready? CREATE A COMMUNICATION PLAN Emergency Kit Items First Aid Item Kit During the first few hours or several . Identify safe places in your home in case you days (72 hours) following a disaster,  Extra safe deposit  Extra car keys/  First aid manual  Antibacterial must shelter in place box key entertainment items  Thermometer ointment essential services may not be  Cash/credit cards  Battery powered  Disposable  Sanitary napkins . Identify at least 2 routes to get out of your available to meet your family’s needs. (coins also) radio diapers (pressure dressing) home in an emergency  Waterproof/wind-  Extra batteries (dressing/splint/p  Safety pins / Therefore, it will be important to (review frequently) gather supplies you will need ahead proof matches adding) scissors / needles  First aid kit &  Utility knife / basic  Pain relievers  Laxatives/antacid of time. One or more of the survival . Identify a place for your manual tools (acetaminophen  Syrup of Ipecac family to meet in case kits described can be pre-assembled  Manual can  Emergency candles / / aspirin)  Soap / sunscreen in a storable container and placed in opener lighter  Diarrhea  Individual medical you are separated. a location that is easily accessible.  Sleeping bags &  Extra eyeglasses medicine needs Pick a place in and outside your blankets /contact lenses /  Adhesive / paper  Band-aids / neighborhood for a meeting point Should you need to use it or (wool/thermal) supplies tape bandages evacuate, it will be ready. The  Non-perishable  Extra clothing/shoes  Cold/heat pack  Petroleum jelly . Identify 2 contacts (local and out-of-state) illustration below uses a 32-gallon foods  Whistle/work gloves  Rubbing alcohol  Needles and that family members can contact if separated trash can to store emergency items.  Manual flashlight /  Essential  Cotton balls thread light sticks medications /swabs  Heavy string . Know how to turn off the electricity and water,  Baby, children &  Disposable  Salt / sterile  Tweezers / along with the furnace and gas valve at the elderly items plates/cups/eating gauze matches appliance utensils  Saline solution /  Small splints,  Pet food (dry &  Kitty litter / leash / antiseptic popsicle sticks . Discuss working arrangements with your canned) muzzle / ID collar  Surgical masks  Disposable gloves employer should you need to stay home of if  Extra medications  Large capacity self-  Baking soda (½ tsp soda + 1 tsp. salt + 1 qt. the business has to close /immunization feeder & water water for shock) record dispenser . Identify someone to check on you if you live  Picture of pet/carrier alone or have special needs Suggested non-perishable food items: raisins, Car Survival Item Kit . Notify the Greenwich Department of Health

canned meats, juice, fruits, powdered milk, at 203-618-7625 if you have a special need peanut butter, high energy bars  Maintain at Least ½  Sundry Kit (paper & tank of gas pencil, map, whistle, and require assistance

Important Document Item Kit  Battery powered tissues, The 32-Gallon Trash Can radio & batteries premoistened . Identify someone who can assist you with Emergency Item Kit Copies of the following should be kept as a kit or  First aid kit & towels, plastic bags) transportation needs stored in a safe deposit box: manual  Essential  Property/vehicle  Family health &  Windshield scraper medications . Identify those who can pick up your child if Sanitation Item Kit papers identification you cannot and be sure to let the school  Bottled water  Reflectors & flares  Plastic bucket with  Personal hygiene  List or pictures of records  Non-perishable  Flashlights & know this information. lid items possessions  Credit card and foods stored in batteries  Plastic bags/duct  Baby/child  Appraisals: jewelry, contact numbers coffee can  Waterproof . Discuss with your children their role in tape supplies etc.  Emergency  ABC fire matches & candles emergency planning and response  Disinfectant  Aluminum foil  Prescription/social contacts extinguisher  Blankets or sleeping . Find out where children will be sent if schools  Improvised toilet  Water purification security cards  Computer back-  Compass bags seat tablets  Policies: auto, ups  Sand & shovel  Tire repair kit / are evacuated property, life  Medical devices,  Disposable  Supply of water (1  Tools / kitty litter pump . Choose a place for your pet to go in case you plates/cups/eating gallon per  Bank accounts, etc. i.e. pace maker  Jumper cables / tow  Rubber hose for Utensils person/per day for  Wills/funeral/burial  Mortgage/deed rope siphoning need to leave. Remember, shelters usually  Toiletries 3-7 days) papers  Licenses: do not allow pets.  Soap/toilet paper  Paper towels  Traveler’s checks & marriage, drivers, passports etc. TOWN OF GREENWICH PREPARE FINANCIALLY  A list of emergency contacts - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH doctors, family members who live NON-EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS Insurance outside your area, etc. – TOWN DEPARTMENTS

Review property and life insurance  Copies of prescriptions and children’s Dept. of Health, Environmental Health Are You Ready? policies immunization records  Health, dental and prescription 203-987-1001 / 203-622-7838 For Emergencies Cash Fire Dept. 203-622-3950 insurance cards Police Dept. 203-622-8000  Keep cash, traveler’s checks and  Copies of your insurance policies or Routinely, every day people go about their coins at home in small policy numbers Dept. of Social Services 203-622-3800 business and go to Dept. of Parks & Rec., Tree Division work, put their denominations for easy use; a  Copies of other important financial 203-622-7824 children on the school disaster could temporarily shut and family records down local ATMs and banks for bus and do household days or weeks  Backups of computerized financial errands; but every so records PHONE NUMBERS often, the unexpected  Income may stop if you cannot  List of bank accounts, loans, credit Centers for Disease Control and happens: a fire, a work so check with your employer flood, a hurricane or some other emergency. cards, driver’s license and Social Prevention Hotline 1-800-232-4636 about alternate plans During a disaster, our daily activities change Security numbers Centers for Disease Control and and, suddenly, we become aware of how Evacuation  An extra safe deposit box key – a Prevention Hotline TTY 1-888-232-6348 fragile our lives really are. safe deposit box can also be used to Greenwich Hospital 203-863-3000 During an emergency you may need to If a disaster occurs in Greenwich, local leave your home. keep important papers Greenwich Red Cross 203-869-8444 government and community emergency When community Connecticut Poison Control 1-800-222-1222 response agencies will try to help you. But evacuations become IMPORTANT RESOURCES you will need to be ready as well. Everyone necessary, local In Connecticut the Emergency Alert EMERGENCY INFORMATION in the household needs to know what to do officials will provide System (EAS) is in place. If the System is and where to go during an emergency. information through activated, scheduled TV and radio will be CT AM Radio You will need to be self-sufficient for several the local media. To interrupted and an emergency message WGCH – 1490 http://wgch.com days since help may not be able to reach you immediately. preserve important documents or other will be broadcasted. It is important to (Greenwich) valuables, create an “Evacuation Box” listen to these instructions and stay tuned. WSTC – 1400 http://wshu.com Creating a family disaster plan will provide by purchasing a durable container that (Stamford) specific instructions for disaster preparation can be locked. Then place all items in EMERGENCY SERVICES WNLK – 1350 and response. During an emergency, it will waterproof plastic bags to protect them Emergency (Fire, Police, GEMS) 9-1-1 (Norwalk) http://wshu.com become the key to survival. Your disaster from moisture and water. The plan should be a written document that is Television assembled box should be capable of Greenwich Emergency Information Line reviewed, updated and practiced by your being carried and stored in a safe 1-866-245-4260 Cablevision ch. 12 www.news12.com/CT family. This pamphlet has been designed to location. The following is a list of items (Activated during an emergency only) WFSB ch. 3 www.wfsb.com assist you in creating that plan. you may consider: WTNH ch. 8 www.wtnh.com

EMERGENCY HELPLINES – Utilities WVIT ch.30 www.nbcconnecticut.com  Traveler’s checks, cash and a few (ch. 6 on Cablevision) GREENWICH DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH rolls of quarters Aquarion Water Company 800-732-9678 101 Field Point Road Eversource 800-286-2000 Note: Information for this pamphlet was Greenwich, CT 06830  Negatives of irreplaceable obtained from various sources www.greenwichct.org personal photographs CT Natural Gas Company 203-869-6900 Dec. 2015