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Show I tah Sunday. January 24. 1999, THE DAILY HERALD. Provo. Page AI? Peace through Preparation a, steps to family & neighborhood emergency preparedness 3 There are only three steps Jo family, community preparedness Neighbors Uniting Provo By Step 1: Organize your neighborhood into groups of about 10 families. creates 1 Step community-base- d neighborhood 10. groups of These groups are meant to be geographically connected and excluding no one on the basis of race, political persuasion or religious faith. Because the 3 Steps plan will have to interface with existing emergency plans, find out whether or not there are existing emergency plans in place. If there are, find the sponsoring organization and see whether tne 3 Steps plan would complement their effort. If it would, or if there are no existing plans, then implement the 3 Steps plan. Define a geographical Neighborhood of about 100 families in the smartest way possible. Find a person to be the 3 Steps Neighborhood Chair. The chair should then recruit other committee members as appropriate to establish the 3 Steps Neighborhood Committee. That committee should then establish an informal command center to dinate activities then designate an emergency staging area, within their group boundaries where families would assemble during a time of disaster to organize rescue and first-aiefforts. d The Neighborhood Committee draws a map of the neighborhood, showing the boundaries of each group of 10 families and the locations of the chair, command center, captains, and staging areas. Next, maps of each indi during an r, are distributed to educate families on various emergency topics and also to make them aware of group buying opportunities. The following list of activities and preparation items was used by Provo the Canyon and Edgemont 10th neighbor hoods in approximately the following order of priority: water storage, water purification vidual group of 10 fam ilies are drawn, showing family names and telephone numbers. lists Group should include local phone numbers. Thev should also include the out phone numbers that families would call to leave or receive messages about the welfare of family members. During a time of emergency, long distance lines are often available when local lines are not. These lists are distributed to the families and the neighborhood committee. coor- emergency. The Neighborhood Committee then divides the neighborhood into smaller groups of 10, consisting of about six to 12 adjafamilies. One cent, or next-dooadult in each group should be selected as group captain; other members should be selected as assistants. The group should ly's stewardship for Neighborhoods often arrange to do group buying f emergency supplies that take advantage of sales and quantity discounts. Fliers and information sheets Step 2: Prioritize and acquire emergency supplies. Step and sanitation supplies, kits, 72-ho- survival kits and emergency car kits, emergency shelter supplies, food storage items, wood, coal, propane and emergency heating, first aid kits and medicinal supplies, and other communication aids, hand crank grain mills, dutch ovens, fire extinguishers, gardening skills and walkie-talkie- s non-hybri- d Neighbors Uniting Provo general rule of thumb is to prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Here are a few of the family and neighborhood emergencies that might conA front us. Most of us know people who have had one or more of the following family emergencies: 2 helps of the upstream dams. We will ask The Daily Herald to publish these in the near future. A little preparation today will save lives in the future. Death or disability through disease or accident of a family member. Although it is hoped that our family members will always be well and healthy, we all know of families who have suffered expensive illnessEven with the help of insurance they have been forced to rely on their own resources. es. 3. Domestic Step 3: Get emergency response training Some examples of the more likely neighborhood emergencies include: 1. An earthquake regis7 large-scal- e 5. e of terrorism, probability although still low, is unfortunately increasing. 4. A widespread economic recession or depression. It is conceivable that the United States might be caught in a severe recession or depression, similar to that which occurred Past experiences in with major recessions have shown that an ounce of prevention is often worth several pounds of cure. We should pre 1929-193- WIRELESS SERVICES RETAILER! m mm will definitely problem occur on predictable dates ranging from early 1999 through the year 2001. Perhaps more serious than the Y2K Problem will be the Y2K Panic. Some alarmists, like Chicken Little, are saying the Y2K Problem will cause the sky to fall. Other commentators, like Aesop's grasshopper, are saying that winter will never come we have nothing to worry about. No one knows for sure how much of a disruption will occur as a consequence of Y2K. We think it prudent to prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Let's have peace through preparation. NO LONG DISTANCE m iOAMIN Every call a local fJ uni.m.uim'a'i'i'iii" STEEL EMYDY i- multi-netwo- rk phqie - mode TDMA hour talk time 52 hour standby as low as vu banddual Dual call, rates With E) O QO 130 alphanumeric memory locations s 1H per minute! 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Worst case tering pare ourselves with the proper food storage and financial planning to weather any possible economic storm. 2000 Year The The catastrophic loss of Millennium Bug (Y2K). one or more of our utilities Unlike the unpredictability of electricity, natural gas or natural disasters, this One family suffers from broken water pipes and a flooded basement; another suffers smoke damage from a cooking fire. worst-cas- city-directe- d records. Choose your own priorities and add other items that your neighborhood will need. 3. Change or loss of tial services has happened employment. In the U.S., it is before and will happen again. estimated that workers hold an As the newspaper shows, the high. 2. k and financial personal neighbors acquire the supplies they need, beginning with first things first. Now that the entire neighborhood has been organized, the Neighborhood Committee meets to prioritize preparation needs, carefully respecting each fami 1. average of five jobs during their careers. The probability of unemployment at some time during a career is therefore to use your 3 Steps plan, there is peace through preparation for any eventually. emergency. 2. CERT training increases Please help your neighborthe safety of rescuers. CERT hood understand that the 3 trained individuals know betSteps effort is not to cause fear, ter when and when not to but rather to replace fear by become involved in hazardous working together carefully and rescue operations. systematically in order to pre3. CERT training provides a pare supplies and learn skills so that if emergencies come, degree of immunity from liability when volunteers participate there will be no need to fear. in emergency resMaintaining the 3 Steps will cue operations. This indemnifitraining. require cation holds as long as such vo- Neighbors will always be movlunteers act in good faith, withing out and moving in. out malice, and are not grossly Neighborhood chairs or group negligent. In addition, voluncaptains may need to be like other citizens teers replaced. Semiannual reviews have the protection of state and of CERT and other emergency federal "Good Samaritan" laws. training should be conducted. Ideally, each group of 10 would Reorganizing, improving and send as many people as possible maintaining a state of readifor CERT or other emergency ness should be a part of the When Neighborhood Committee and neighborhood training. members have received emergroups of 10 planning. . There are other threats to our gency training, simulation drills could be conducted to give neighquality of life which are as bors a chance to practice working equally serious as natural disasters. Now that your neighbortogether as a group. hoods have learned to work Peace through preparation together in preparing for family Finally, we wish to remind and neighborhood emergencies, you that the motto of the 3 you and your neighbors might, Steps plan is, "Peace through consider working on other proPreparation." Although it is jects that will further unite, prehoped that you will never need serve and renew the community. seeds, Prepare for the worst, hope for the best By bers of your group get, the better they can help in a time of Step 3 encourages members of each group of 10 to get CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) training. Many cities' offer CERT classes. The CERT class is a seven-weecourse designed by FEMA Federal Emergency and Management Agency taught by local city police and fire departments. The CERT class consists of training in the following emergency response skills: emergency preparedness, light search and rescue, suppression of small fires, disaster medical operations (triage and treatment), organization and layout, disaster psychology. FEMAs rationale for providing CERT training is this: If a disaster were to happen, the 911 emergency response system would be overwhelmed within minutes making professional city personnel unavailable for a minimum of three days perhaps much longer. It would be up to local residents to conduct all emergency rescue operations and medical care during that time. We encourage taking CERT training for 3 reasons: 1. The more training mem- - reimctiono apply. S Bofl kx (Wild. Mil 967-480- UU 0 WUT M11IY w no i 0 kMaa4iaHk |
