dps: Citizens Preparedness Guides

Montgomery County, PA

P.O. Box 311, Norristown, PA 19404-0311
Courthouse Hours: 8:30a.m. to 4:15p.m.
Phone: 610-278-3000
Website: www.montcopa.org

Citizens Preparedness Guides
 This guide contains information on how to create a disaster plan, how to handle evacuations, sheltering, and animals in disasters.  There are also overviews about natural and manmade disasters as well as ideas for the next steps you can take to learn more about being prepared.
This guide provides tips on how to respond in an emergency and will help you and your family prepare your home in case of disaster. Includes information on homeland security threat levels, special populations, and making disaster kits.
This guide provides additional information on preparedness, which includes, opening mail, traveling, children, and how to report emergencies.
Learn how to protect yourself and cope with disaster by planning ahead.  This checklist will help you get started.
For the millions of Americans with mobility problems, emergencies such as fires and floods present a special challenge.  Protecting yourself and your family when disaster strikes requires planning ahead.
Your family may not be together when disaster strikes, so plan how you will contact one another and review what you will do in different situations