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Be Prepared

Prepare, Plan, and Stay Informed

Emergencies happen every day -- often when you least expect it. The Ready Campaign encourages all Americans to have an emergency supply kit, an emergency plan, and to be informed about the different emergencies that can happen in their area and the appropriate responses. Below are some tools to help you be more prepared in case of an emergency.

Video

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My Family Emergency Plan
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This application allows you to create a comprehensive family communications plan for any emergency situation. You can save your plan as a PDF as well as print and share your plan with the members of your family and other emergency contacts. Go >

QuickShare Your Emergency Information
QuickShare screenshot

This application allows you to create an e-mail with basic emergency information. You can cut and paste the generated text into an e-mail and send to the family and/or friends who you'd contact in the event of an emergency. o To complete a comprehensive family emergency plan, please see the My Family Emergency Plan section above. Go >

Map

This interactive tool allows you to click on each state and get contact information for state and local government agencies where you can learn more about specific emergency information in your community.

Widget Map Washington Oregon California Nevada Arizona Utah Idaho Montana Wyoming Colorado New Mexico Texas Oklahoma Kansas Nebraska South Dakota North Dakota Minnesota Iowa Missouri Arkansas Louisana Mississippi Tennessee Kentucky Illinois Wisconsin Alabama Florida Georgia South Carolina North Carolina Virginia Indiana Michigan Michigan Ohio West Virginia Pennsylvania New York Maryland District of Columbia Delaware New Jersey New Jersey Connecticut Rhode Island Massachusetts Vermont New Hampshire Maine Alaska Hawaii
Video Blog
Videoblog button

Have you experienced an emergency situation and would like to share your story to help tell other Americans about the importance to prepare? The Ready Campaign is looking for entries, so we hope you will consider submitting a video or passing this along to people who would be willing to help us inspire more Americans to get prepared. For submission guidelines, click here: http://www.ready.gov/vblog/guidelines.html

Tools to be ready

My Emergency Widget
Place or embed this on your blog or Web page to have it provide updates on emergency situations as well as guidelines on how you can better prepare. Click on the widget and then click the "Get & Share" button to access the embed code and share buttons.
Additional Tools
Your family may not be together when an emergency happens, so it is important to plan in advance how you will contact one another and how you will get back together.

Download the Family Emergency Plan.

 
 
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