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How to Create Your Evacuation Plan

September 23, 2008 02:31:53 PM

Your friends at Keck Insurance Agency would like to help you in the event of a sudden emergency such as a fire, earthquake, or flood. You may have just minutes to gather your family and important papers, and get out of your house, possibly for good. Are you prepared? Where would you go? What would you take with you?
With preparation and practice, you stand the best chance of getting out with what you and your family need, and ending up in the right place.
Planning ahead is crucial; this four-step plan can help get you and your family on the road to safety:

1. Arrange Your Evacuation Ahead of Time
· Identify where you can go in the event of an evacuation.
Try to have more than one option: the home of a friend or
family member in another city, a hotel, or a shelter. Keep
the phone numbers and addresses of these locations handy.
· In case you family members are separated before or during
the evacuation, identify a specific place to meet and ask
an out-of-town friend or family member to act as a contact
person.

2. Plan What to Take
· Medicines, prescriptions and first aid kit.
· Bottled water
· Clothing and bedding (sleeping bags, pillows)
· Flashlight, battery-powered radio and extra batteries
· Special items for infants or elderly or disabled family
members
· Photographs
· Pet food and other items for pets (litter boxes, leashes)
· Any other critically important items.

3. Gather Important Documents
Keep important documents in a safe place that you can
access easily. In the event of an evacuation take the
following documents with you:
· Insurance policies
· Prescriptions
· Birth and Marriage Certificates
· Passports
· Drivers license or personal identification
· Wills, deeds and recent tax returns
· Bank, savings and retirement account numbers

4. Take the Ten-Minute Challenge To Make Sure Your Family is
Ready
· To find out if you re ready, do the real-time test. Give
yourself just 10 minutes to get all of your family (make
sure everyone is included in the test run, do not assume
anything) and belongings into the care and on the road to
safety. By planning ahead and practicing, you should be
able to gather your family members and pets, along with the
most important items they will need, calmly and
efficiently, with a minimum of stress and confusion.

Just some friendly advice from your Temecula Valley insurance agency, Keck Insurance, your “One-Stop Insurance Shop.”

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