Before A Disaster...
- Complete an American Red Cross Standard First Aid Course.
- Identify two locations that could be used as a first aid station following a major disaster. Establish one location inside your home and another in a safe place outside your home.
- Identify those family members who have special medical needs. Mitigage for those needs (this includes acquiring prescription medications that can be stored with the family's emergency supplies or extra supplies for elderly or handicapped family members).
- Become familiar with the concepts of psychological first aid (see link below).
- Complete an Emergency Mecial Information sheet for each family member and store these in your Family Disaster Notebook. Keep the information current.
Click here to access our "Emergency Mecial Information" forms.
After A Disaster...
- Set up your home first aid station in a safe location either inside or outside your home.
- As best as you are able, assess the physical and psychological needs of family members and provide treatment accordingly. Try to separate serious injuries from minor ones (seeing serious injuries can heighten psychological trauma in other family members).
- Report serious or life threatening injuries to the Family Preparedness Coordinator and the Family Communications Monitor. (Send an available family member to do this while you stay with the injured member.)
- Make sure that emergency medical forms, including a medical treatment release form if necessary, accompany your seriously injured family members to the hospital. Tag the injured with their name, address and the treatment they have been given. This information should be written with permanent marker on the forehead or arm of the injured in case their emergency medical information forms are lost or misplaced in transport.
- If 911 emergency response personnel are not available to transport a seriously injured family member to a medical facility, work with your Neighborhood Communications Monitor and the Safety and Security Team to acquire an appropriate transport vehicle and identify routes to take or avoid.
- Keep a written record of where seriously injured family members are taken as well as by whom and at what time. Report this information to the Family Preparedness Coordinator as well as the Family Communications Monitor.
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Family Preparedness Coordinator
Family Communications Monitor
Family Damage Assessment Coordinator
Family Safety and Security Coordinator
Family Search and Rescue Coordinator
Family Sheltering and Special Needs Coordinator
