What will you do if you heard tomorrow on your local news that your city or town was under a terrorist attack? What if you had to evacuate your home because of a chemical or bio threat? It doesn’t matter how much you read, until you schedule drills to practice your emergency preparedness plan, you won’t do well in an actual time of crisis. Even major entities use drills to make sure they’re prepared. For example, a nuclear plant facility, Fermi, in Monroe, Missouri has announced its upcoming drill:
“This drill adds to our established emergency preparedness program and gives us the opportunity to practice with our local, state and federal partners in public safety and emergency response,” he said. “It also gives all the partners an opportunity to test the plan and identify the elements that work well and those that may be improved.”
Similar drills and training sessions are conducted several times a year to test other elements of Fermi 2’s emergency response plan. The efforts are meant to ensure that personnel maintain high levels of knowledge and skill related to their emergency response duties and that their actions under the emergency plan will protect public health and safety.
Now it’s your turn. Explore our articles section, read our recommendations and make a list of potential natural and man-made disasters that could happen at any time. Then, schedule monthly or weekly drills to practice evacuation and bunkering down techniques with your family.
Source:
http://www.monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091208/NEWS01/712089997/-1/NEWS