It is important to be familiar with “Be Ready, Be Set, Go” – a statewide evacuation system used to notify communities facing a threat, or potential threat, to lives and property.

This preparedness guide and family workbook will help you to be ready for whatever emergencies may occur.

Neighborhood preparedness refers to a neighborhood-wide effort to share the training, education and resources that each person has in order to prepare in advance for disaster on a collective level.

The prospect of “getting prepared for emergencies” can seem like a huge undertaking. Do you prepare for three days? For a week? A month?

A fire extinguisher is a storage container for a fire-extinguishing agent such as water or chemicals.

More than one-third of fire deaths occur in homes without smoke detectors.

If you don't have a landline, you will not be notified unless you register another contact option.

Evacuations are conducted to save lives and allow responding personnel to focus on the emergency at hand.