When making your plan for your family do include planning for all the kiddos.
Keep comforting items like favorite stuffed animals that will help children cope with adverse events in an emergency.
For more preparedness tips this month, follow along throughout the month.
Stay safe and plan ahead!
Awwwww yeah – National Preparedness Month starts today!
“Disasters Don’t Plan Ahead. You Can.”
Go ahead. Make an emergency plan today.
#NatlPrep #PlanAhead
Fun time this morning at FEMA HQ.
Quick meeting with my manager and a quick hello to our other External Affairs pros on the 8th floor.
Additionally, lots of planning ongoing for the preparedness/response for Hurricane Harvey. And lots of senior administration here today to update ongoing issues as well as brief leadership on various branches of government.
Photo Credit: FEMA/Bill Koplitz
Despite the ongoing flurry of activity, I was still able to grab a few smiles from my External Affairs peeps.
@rusnivek and @EmergencyPrepGal
We are going to need everyone to listen to trusted sources of local, state, national information on safety measures being implemented throughout affected areas.
Please heed the warnings of your local public safety professionals.
Be safe peeps.
Are you checking out the solar eclipse?
Here’s another great quick video with numerous tips on safety for viewing the upcoming solar eclipse with one of my favorite NWS-Sacramento Meteorologist Brooke Bingaman.
Keep it safe while viewing the solar eclipse!
A friendly reminder this weekend!
The Ohio National Guard is hosting a free medical clinic including free immunizations.
Guard Care providing free health care services to Ohio communities while providing the Guard with medical readiness training. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by SSgt Joseph Harwood)
This GuardCare is provided for FREE in conjunction with the Ohio Department of Health and Union County Health Department.
Location: 940 London Ave in Marysville, Ohio 43040
Really enjoying sharing and highlighting our plans for our partners in public safety. We talked about a ton of them this week in the ICS-400 classes this week.
Yes, to enhance your disaster knowledge, consider reading through the above documents.
But within these plans, many government agencies have tons of resources available.
Lots of peeps to work with.
The weather is about to get NAST!
I better turn on my NOAA National Weather Service Radio…
I’m no meteorologist, but I think this is a bad sign when clouds look like this. #fugly
Tune into your local National Weather Service (NWS) Office for more details about weather in your specific area.
There are 122 of them. All staffed 24/7.
They provide info. For free.
Reporting live and running inside now…
It’s still not too late – 2017 National Public Safety Telecommunicator week!
***Sunday April 9th through Saturday April 15th***
Pictured below is still my favorite dispatch picture that depicts how hard their job truly is.
If you have ever sat in a dispatch center for any amount of time, you know how difficult their job really is.
Thank your dispatchers today!
Where is @rusnivek? 