Pasco West Neighborhood

(Example Version)

Emergency Notebook

June 12, 2014edition

Pasco West Neighborhood Emergency Notebook

It is great to live in this wonderful neighborhood where everyone knows and loves each other so much! It’s also nice that we’re organized and have a neighborhood emergency plan. But the plan won’t be effective unless everyone knows what it is and is working together in a coordinated effort. This notebook is made to help you know how to handle different kinds of emergencies and how and when we plan to work together as a neighborhood organization.

We know that you won’t remember all the information in this notebook, thus we’re making it and putting tabs in it, so that you can find critical info immediately when needed. Some things are best cared for in advance (like having your food storage and having a room picked out for “in-place sheltering”), so it’s good to work through this notebook in advance, do what you need to do in advance, and then place this notebook where you can grab it quickly when something happens and flip to the information you need at the time.

Besides working through this notebook with yourself and your family, we hope you will take advantage of the fact that you belong to a Group of 10 who will be the ones to help you in a general crisis. Now, while we still have peace here at home, we have time to meet together and work together to accomplish all that we will later wish we had done. You and and the other families in your Group of 10 can work gradually through the sections of this notebook to make sure everyone understands them and that you have done all you can to help each other be ready for what might come.

In our neighborhood, we follow what is called the “3 Steps” plan. People all over the world, even in Istanbul, Turkey, have implemented this plan.

The “3 Steps” are:

! 1) Organize the neighborhood into Groups of 10 with captains & staging areas. ! 2) Help each other get prepared through classes, group projects, and group buys.! 3) Help large numbers of neighbors receive CERT / NEST training.

Thanks to you all for making our neighborhood such a wonderful place to live.

“Peace through Preparation”www.3steps.org

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Table of Contents! ! ! !! ! page #Introduction and Table of Contents...................................................................................! 2-3MAPS AND LISTS............................................................................................................!Tab 1! - Neighborhood Map ....................................................................................................!4! - Neighborhood List......................................................................................................! 5! - Emergency Preparedness Committee (Captains and Walkie-Talkers List).............................! 6! - Group of 10 Map with names and phone #’s.............................................................! 7! - Group of 10 complete list with names and contact information.................................! 8! - List of Alternate Heat Sources and Fuel Storage.......................................................! 9! - List of Emergency Skills.............................................................................................! 10NEIGHBORHOOD EMERGENCY PLAN.........................................................................!Tab 2! - Neighborhood Emergency Plan.................................................................................! 11-12! - Groups of 10 and Captains........................................................................................! 13! - Staging Area Diagram................................................................................................! 14“WHAT TO DO IF...”........................................................................................................! Tab 3! - Power Outages & Storms...........................................................................................!15! - Earthquake.................................................................................................................! 16-17! - Biological, Chemical, and Nuclear Attacks & Evacuation..........................................! 18-21! - Chemical Attacks and Short-Term In-Place Sheltering..............................................! 19-20! - Biological Attacks & Quarantining..............................................................................! 21! - Nuclear Attacks & Long-Term In-Place Sheltering.....................................................! 21! - Decontamination........................................................................................................! 21! - How to Turn off Your Utilities......................................................................................! 22-23WATER PURIFICATION AND SANITATION...................................................................! Tab 4! - Water Purification instructions...................................................................................! 24-25! - Sanitation instructions................................................................................................! 25! - How to Do Your Water Barrels...................................................................................! 26! - Collecting Water........................................................................................................! 27FIRST AID & MEDICAL SUPPLIES................................................................................! Tab 5! - Disaster First Aid.......................................................................................................! 28-30! - CERT/NEST Overview..............................................................................................! 31! - Search and Rescue...................................................................................................! 32-34! - Medical Supplies........................................................................................................! 35COMMUNICATIONS........................................................................................................! Tab 6! - Communications System...........................................................................................! 36! - Communications Protocol..........................................................................................! 37! - Walkie-Talkers & Radio Channels.............................................................................! 38! - Annual Communications Drills: Flag Day, Pennies-by-the-Inch Drill........................! 39! - Report Forms.............................................................................................................! 40-46FOOD STORAGE & 72-HR. KITS..................................................................................! Tab 7! - Basic Food storage list..............................................................................................! 47-48! - 72-hr Kit List..............................................................................................................! 49-50! - Sprouts......................................................................................................................! 51-52

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891-7902 (H)! ALDER, Ricky & Heidi ! 401 W 4160 S! Raiden, Ryu614-5336! ANDERBERG, Dallin & Katie (360-8377)! 425 W 4200 S! Elizabeth, Daniel, Seth, Hannah816-520-6521! ARMSTRONG, Cameron & Toni (443-0070)! 490 W 4020 S614-7555 ! ASHTON, Larry & Karla ! 554 W 4160 S 616-2425 ! BARON, David & Anna! 425 W 3820 S! Andrew, Tina, Isabel, Halley, Samantha 607-3545! BARTON, Edward & Shirley ! 493 W 4160 S ! (Jonathan), David, Stephanie322-2754! BEARDALL, Boyd & Lynne (735-4957)! 472 W 4160 S! Mary, Vickie, Ellie655-3542! BECK, Von & Molly (477-5943)! 520 W 4200 S! Katie322-9521 ! BENNION, Bart & Karen (331-6577)! 578 W 4020 S ! Clint615-7301 ! BENNION, Sally ! 578 W 4020 S 615-2727 ! BERRETT, Graciela ! 404 W 4160 S615-0689 ! BILLINGS, Frederick! 422 W 4200 S 766-4453 ! BLAKE, Bill & Amanda! 530 W 4020 S ! (Berrett), Taylor, Marcus, Renee 366-7181! BOWMAN, Mike & Danika (775-3444) ! 388 W 3975 S! Cameron Watson, Blake Watson!593-8522! BRAMWELL, John & Debi (472-2366)! 4352 S Carmike Rd627-1554! BRONSON, Jeff & Michelle (822-2088)! 4562 S 475 E! Kenzie, Bradley, Preston502-5733! BRYAN, Michael & Marsha! 648 W 4160 S! Derek, Phillip360-827-1323! BOROS, Tonio & Amy (360-807-3325)! 402 W 4200 S434-9630! CANTON, Don & Brenda! 405 W 4020 S! Annalee, Jessica379-5755! CARD, Sonia ! 320 W 3820 S! Timothy800-0122 ! CARTER, John & Cherie ! 311 W 3820 S 921-6628! CHATMAN, Roger & Karleen! 440 W 3975 S! Andie, Ford614-0331! CHYNOTT, Rosanna! 515 W 3820 S614-7654! CLARK, Darius & Marina! 469 W 4160 S ! Daniel, Mary615-6401 ! CLARK, Walter & Carolee ! 424 W 4160 S 614-4647 ! COBBS, Bryan & Valerie ! 555 W 4160 S612-3358! CORAY, John & Jenna! 622 W 4160 S544-1139 ! CRAIG, Don & Virginia (680-4069)! 600 W 4160 S! Jesse, Mallory, Thomas883-7249! CREBBIN, Mark & Jenny (442-6978)! 576 W 4200 S.! Tate, Nicolle614-7227 ! CROW, Steve & Larinda ! 394 W 3820 S 691-1486! DAVIS, Robert! 4339 S 650 E616-2639 ! DE GARTON, Janice! 505 W 3820 S611-4934 ! DURHAM, James & Laura ! 351 W 3820 S778-9315! EYRE, Doug & Patti (882-8667)! 4584 S 475 E! Doug Jr. (611-9837), Brighton614-4537 ! FRANK, Walter & Jordi! 533 W 4160 S 611-9934 ! FOX, Brodie & Donetta ! 524 W 4160 S ! Oli, Mark615-6102 ! GIBSONI, Marco & Andrea ! 383 W 4160 S ! (Jana), Hattie 334-3484! GROWBERT, Albert & June (822-7607)! 4510 S Carmike Rd! Hank420-8087 ! HALSTROM, Matthias & Anne (687-8589)! 340 W 4160 S! Daisy473-7512! HARKER, Don & Jodee (602-5592)! 4593 S 475 E! Avery, Jean, Tom

616-3743 ! HARDY, Ken & Janet! 380 W 4160 S 669-1356! HARRIS, Glenn & Gwynneth! 363 W 4200 S616-6711 ! HIGGIN, Brian & Jayne! 4170 S 650 W! Alison, Jared, Justin, Annie269-0442! HOOPER, Phil & Kendra (224-6398)! 545 W 4020 S! Jake, Jordan467-6941! HUDGETT, Sam & Sharon! 555 W 4020 S607-4156 ! HUNTER, Max & Vickie ! 447 W 4160 S ! Connie, Jennifer, Justin 733-9992! JOHANSONN, Kip & Lindsay 433-2719! 325 W 3820 S! James, Jason615-0791 ! KOLLER, Jesse! 627 W 4200 S 322-9841! KRANDALL, Ken & Elizabeth (313-4668)! 393 W 4020 S ! (Mila), (Taylor), (Joshua)614-4513! LEIFFERT, Nathan & Jillian! 350 W 3975 S311-5502 ! LOVELESS, Ron & Chanda (322-1974)! 505 W 3975 S ! Kendall774-0023! LEWMAN, Kevin & Donna! 505 W 3820 S basement332-7421! LUKE, Darwin & Spring (612-8470)! 540 W 4200 S! Skye, River, Montana615-0758! MALMFELD, Rick & Tania (787-7805)! 580 W 4160 S! Riley, Curtis614-9448 ! MCCormack, Brian & Alexandra! 423 W 4160 S ! (Harris), Glenna, Victoria222-0421! MITCHELL, Jake & Carrie (222-0803)! 361 W 4160 S! Analisa434-7388! MONSON, Ben & Katherine (494-9860)! 374 W 3820 S! (Maddie), Jason, Carter787-8900! MONSON, Royce & Kristie (369-8592)! 374 W 3820 S! Trevor, Taylor615-6635 ! MORGAN, Jeremy & Sandy ! 4433 S Carmike Rd 235-0882 ! MYERS, Ben & Laney ! 512 W 3820 S 811-7287 ! NAYLOR, Dan & Linda ! 354 W 3820 S ! (Chuck), Cynthia615-6133! NAYLOR, Jack & Rita ! 495 W 4200 S 614-0706 ! OWENS, Bri & Pam ! 562 W 4160 S366-2045 ! PETERSON, Wayne & Trisha (711-4213)! 515 W 4200 S367-9529! POTTS, Kenneth & Larissa (368-9614)! 472 W 4160 S! Marie, Seth766-1457! SANCHEZ, Catalina! 412 W 3975 S920-4878 ! SCHMIDT, Bruce & Donni! 341 W 4160 S ! Kevin, Ronnie815-8319! SCHUBERT, Devin & Schara! 573 W 4020 S 615-8309! SIEFFERT, Bill & Sadie! 4415 S 650 W 614-3279! TANG, Judy (344-9863)! 4592 S 425 E! Ricky, Mitchell766-1457 ! THRIVES, Ana ! 412 W 3975 S! Carlos, Oscar615-3888 ! TOLMAN, Walt & Janet ! 521 W 4160 S615-3888! TOLMAN, Marty ! 521 W 4160 S691-0962 ! WASDEN, Ken & Taryn! 448 W 4160 S ! Lyra, Edith, Bethany!670-6446! WICKHAM, Doug & Millie (235-3906) ! 4536 S 475 E377-0088 ! WILCOX, Carlton ! 420 W 4020 S 378-9572 ! WILCOX, Benjamim & Gwyneth ! 420 W 4020 S ! ! Justine, Mickey, Blaine, Jack !615-2807 ! WOCHNIK, Sonia ! 573 W 4160 S 833-1775! WOODS, Shane & Emmy (622-7202)! 392 W 4160 S377-8952! WRIGHT, Justin & Lila (614-9793)! 4586 S 425 E

Pasco West Neighborhood List June 12, 2014 ! Pasco West Neighborhood List June 12, 2014 .PHONE SAME ADDRESS ! PHONE SAME ADDRESS .

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EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS COMMITTEE

NEIGHBORHOOD CHAIR Karla Ashton 615-6321, 368-6444 cell

! STREET! GROUP #! CAPTAINS OF TEN-ish! CO-CAPTAINS / WALKIE-TALKERS

! 3820 S.! 5a! Wilford Bannt .............................!614-3939! Steve Crow........................!614-7227! ! 5b! John Darbauer ..........................!611-4934! John Darbauer .................!611-4934

! 3975 S. ! 4a! Dorothy Miller ............................!616-3272! Orson Miller .....................! 616-4727! ! 4b! Allen Coles ................................!617-6628! Allen Coles ......................! 617-6628! ! 4c! Roger & Patty Trent ...................!446-6718! Roger Trent .....................! 446-6718

! 4020 S.! 3a! Karla Kent .................................!611-4753! Tosha Blake .....................! 717-4453! ! 3b! Kevin Wimmer ..........................! 717-0460! Jim Nichols........................!616-2220!! 4160 S.! 2a! Bill Sieffert..................................!616-8309 *Karla Ashton .....615-6321, 368-6444 cell! ! 2b! Justine Durham...........................!614-1548! Justine Durham ................!614-1548! ! 2c! Allyson Gibson..........................! 616-6102! Allyson Gibson ..................!616-6102

! 4200 S.! 1a! Scott & Angela Parker ................614-0248! Scott & Angela Parker ......!614-0248! ! 1b! Amy Wilson ...............................!341-0652! Jay Norbert ......................! 616-6133! ! 1c! Lou Moffet .................................!616-6680! Lou Moffet ........................!616-6680

All Groups of 10 have a walkie-talkie, and we are all on FRS channel 14.10.* When information is available to pass on, it should be communicated to the E.O.C. “Command Central” (usually to Karla Ashton) on Wood’s front grass (522 W. 4160 S.) either by walkie-talkie or by runner.

Canyon Corner Elementary School also has a walkie-talkie from us and is on our same FRS channel 14.10.

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-------------------------------------------------------------SIEFFERT, Bill (4415 S. 650 W.) 615-8309!Cell phone: 366-8692 BillOut-of state #: 933-631-6510 Kim McCarr (cell)Family Physician: Dr. Randy Roggin 718-3450! Central Pasco ClinicClergy to Contact: !Pastor of Pasco Community United Church of Christ = Rev. ____________! 615-9125

-------------------------------------------------------------CORAY, Jan (4383 N. 650 W.)! 885-7279 (Jay) (687-3211)

Cell phone: sameWork phone: Out-of state #: 314-223-9797 Jeri Coray 727-287-2657 Jana in BostonClergy to Contact: Judy Willis 614-1206

-------------------------------------------------------------WOOD, Jerolyn (595 W.)! 614-1983

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Cell phone: 362-0653Work phone: 611-9873Out-of state #: none

Family Physician: none-------------------------------------------------------------COBB, Eliza (573 W.)! 615-2807!Work phone: retiredOut-of-state #: 843-795-0321 sister Alena, Jeannette & Harold Sargeant 915-722-1488Family Physician: Dr. Richard Dan 327-7546Clergy to Contact: Father Michiel Sessions 614-0750-------------------------------------------------------------FRANK, Mel & Anne (551 W.)! 611-2206

Cell phone: 490-7180 Mel, 490-7386 AnneWork phone: noneOut-of-state #: David Frank 928-752-5242 Family Physician: Art Thomas 654-8205

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-------------------------------------------------------------HIGGINS, Duane & Sharon! 615-1094 (4320 S. 650 W.) !Cell phone: 362-6307Work phone: noneOut-of state #: 928-560-6603 Sam cell. (CA) 928-941-9887 Sam hm.Family Physician: Dennis Remer 613-8500

-------------------------------------------------------------BRYAN, Corbin (4339 S. 650 W.)! 611-1486!

Work phone: noneMom: Janice Bryan 2585 S. 650 W.Mom's phone: Out-of state #: Family Physician:

-------------------------------------------------------------MALMFELD, David & Kate (600 W.)!cells only Anna Luke Will Elizabeth!Cell phone: 548-1139 David 670-0069 KateWork phone: Out-of state #:Family Physician:-------------------------------------------------------------OWEN, Joe & Cahty (578 W.)! 614-4728 (Allan)! 438-3275 Cell phone: 367-2521 Cathy/ 588-0203 JoeWork phone: 327-6296 JoeOut-of state #: 712-898-9194 Geri Bacon (sis) & Lee Ann Harris 767-481-4363 (sis)Family Physician: Richard S. Carter-------------------------------------------------------------ASHTON, Karla (554 W.)! 615-6231 (Katie)

Cell phones: 882-6231 Karla, 882-5460 KatieOut-of state#: 917-662-4757 Abby & Brian Lamb niece in NYCFamily Physician: Dr. Jim Walters 614-4470-------------------------------------------------------------

Group # 2a! Captain: Bill Sieffert 4160 S.Walkie-Talkie Channel: 14.10! Walkie-Talkie Operator: Karla Ashton! ! ! ! ! ! ! !!

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Group 2a: Alternate Heat Source & Fuel StorageGroup 2a: Alternate Heat Source & Fuel StorageGroup 2a: Alternate Heat Source & Fuel Storage

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FAMILY NAMEHEAT SOURCE?

(List what kind: wood stove, fireplace,kerosene or propane heater?)

WHAT FUEL?& FOR HOW LONG?FAMILY NAME

HEAT SOURCE?(List what kind: wood stove, fireplace,

kerosene or propane heater?)

WHAT FUEL?& FOR HOW LONG?FAMILY NAME

HEAT SOURCE?(List what kind: wood stove, fireplace,

kerosene or propane heater?)

WHAT FUEL?& FOR HOW LONG?

Siefferts 2 fireplaces 2 5-gal. propane tank

Corays 2 electric space htrs, 2 fireplaces 2-3 weeks wood

Woods 1 fireplace gas generator, 1 cord wood

Cobbs none none

Franks 2 fireplaces 2 cords wood

Ashtons 1 fireplace, 1 wood stove, 2 ker.htrs. 2 cords wood

Owens fireplace, propane heater 4 small bottles propane

Malmfelds kerosene burner 10 gal. kerosene

Bryans fireplace none

Higgins coal stove but chimney not hooked up none

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PASCO WESTEMERGENCY SKILLS LIST

6/12/14

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Pasco West Neighbrhd ceritications/licenses HAM CERT NEST SUTURING Address

Linda Arnold (partial NEST) NEST 351 W. 3820 S./382-4934Paul Arnold (partial NEST) NEST 4584 S. 475 W./882-8667Jan Baird NEST Suturing 4383 S. 650 W./885-7270Ron Bannt (partial NEST) NEST 579 W. 3820 S./383-7555April Bascom CPR NEST 425 W. 3820 S./843-2425Cindy Carlton (partial NEST) NEST 443 W. 3820 S./804-6619Jeff Cartwright NEST 371 W. 3820 S./385-5435Connie Chapman CPR 443 W. 3820 S./804-6619Paul Durham CPR 443 W. 3820 S./804-6619Allison Gibson LMT, CranioSacral 493 W. 4160 S./257-3545Clayton Grammison CPR, 1st Aid 578 W. 4020 S./687-6577Heinz Heckmann CERT NEST 404 W. 4160 S./385-2727Sharon Hill 1st Aid 331 W. 4020 S./492-8656Ralph Jeffery NEST 331 W. 4020 S./502-5738Dorothy Johnson CPR 405 W. 4020 S./434-9630Mark Jones 1st Aid, CPR, lifeguard, constrction 405 W. 4020 S./434-9630Ken Karter CPR, 1st Aid 331 W. 3820 S./802-0122Shereen Koller CPR NEST 331 W. 3820 S./802-0122Russ Lovelock NEST 440 W. Farmhill/833-6628Anne Lumins NEST 440 W. Farmhill/833-6628Callie McKenzie construction experience 440 W. Farmhill/833-6628Lou Miller CPR CERT NEST 515 W. 3820 S./383-0331Bruce Moulton 1st Aid NEST 350 W. Farmhill/383-4647Mary Muller nurses aid, CPR, med. Assistant 350 W. Farmhill/383-4647Allen Nascomb CPR, 1st Aid, Red Cross Disaster HAM CERT NEST Suturing 560 W. 4020 S./344-0900 (Allen - cont'd) temporary break setting, paramedicRuth Nascomb CPR, 1st Aid, Red Cross Disaster HAM CERT NEST Suturing 560 W. 4020 S./344-0544 (Ruth - cont'd) suicide/domestic violence/mediationsuicide/domestic violence/mediation

temporary break setting, EMTKate Nelson (partial NEST) NEST 305 W. 3820 S./328-0231Frank Nelson 1st Aid CERT NEST 305 W. 3820 S./599-4187Michelle Otter CERT NEST 305 W. 3820 S./328-0231Gordon Otter RN, mid-wife NEST 394 W. 3820 S./383-7227Steve Parkinson EMT CERT NEST 394 W. 3820 S./383-7227Keith Parkinson NEST 518 W. 4160 S./245-1548Cheryl Parkinson NEST 518 W. 4160 S./245-1548Burt Petersen organizational skills NEST 518 W. 4160 S./245-1548Donna Petersen NEST 351 W. 3820 S./382-4934Roland Simpson backhoe driver HAM 426 W. Farmhill Dr./897-6150Carol Simpson Suturing 4320 S. 650 W./385-1094Ron Smith CPR,Disaster Recovery,sheriff

advanced 1st aid & survival skills600 W. 4200 S./383-0600

"CPR,Disaster Recovery,sheriff advanced 1st aid & survival skills

Sue Soulier CERT 600 W. 4200 S./383-0600Judy Stevens NEST 380 W. 4020 S./383-2537Wendall Stevens NEST 380 W. 4020 S./383-2537Brady Taylor CPR, 1st Aid instructor, Mortician 524 W. 4160 S./367-0760Debora Taylor CPR, 1st Aid 524 W. 4160 S./599-9934Ann Thomas CPR CERT Suturing 383 W. 4160 S./882-0813Walter Thomas CPR, 1st Aid 4510 N Canyon Rd/369-3484Christy Thurgood CPR, 1st Aid, Water Safety 340 E 4160 S/687-8589Tony Thurgood CPR 505 W. Farmhill/717-8808Glenn Tomball ex-fireman - EMT 363 W. 4200 S./229-1356Paul Tomball ex-military weapons & supply officerex-military weapons & supply officer NEST 603 W. 4200 S./383-0172Courtney Tomball NEST 426 W. Farmhill Dr./319-6718Sharon Urry NEST 4320 S. 650 W./385-1094Brett Urry NEST 523 W. 4200 S./843-6711Julie Watkins CERT 523 W. 4200 S./843-6711Martin Watkins NEST 545 E 4430 S/220-0757Xander Wilkins NEST 545 E 4430 S/244-4100Jennifer Wornick CERT NEST 545 E 4430 S/234-6398Allbert Wornick SW w/ counseling experience CERT NEST 545 E 4430 S/269-0442

Neighborhood Emergency Plan• Our neighborhood is divided up into small geographical Groups of 10 (with approximately 10 families each) and with a captain over each group.

 Your Captain is: ____________________________.

• Each Group of 10 has already selected a permanent meeting location called a STAGING AREA where you should all assemble with your families (logic permitting) in the event of certain kinds of disasters (such as an earthquake, tornado...) after you have done all you can to secure the welfare of your own family.  If the weather or other conditions make taking your entire family to the Staging Area unfeasible, just send one adult member to the Alternate Indoor Staging Area.  For certain kinds of disasters, you would not be assembling at the Staging Area, but you might be relocating families within your Groups of 10 to help each other as the situation requires. 

Your Staging Area is located at ______________________, alternate indoor: ______________________.

    Meeting together at the Staging Area will save an enormous amount of time and effort during a disaster because your group will know within a few minutes who is OK and who isn’t.  No one will have to spend unnecessary time running around trying to determine the welfare of all 10 families.  Everyone will be reporting on their own welfare as they show up; and by having entire families at the staging areas, we can assign a few responsible individuals to watch over the smaller children while all the rest of the adults and older teenagers are freed up to help rescue and care for the rest of the group who need help.  Also, those who do come to the Staging Area will be able to report on the status of those who haven’t come, saving us further wasted effort.  For instance, “We don’t need to look for Ralph; he’s in Wisconsin on business.  But we can’t find Billy.”

    If the disaster is something like a power outage during a blizzard, one adult from each family should meet at the Alternate Indoor Staging Area to quickly assess who has wood burning stoves, etc., and how the Group of 10 can relocate families within their own group to help everyone be warm and safe.  (See the page called “Alternate Heat Source and Fuel...” in the first section of this notebook.)

• Notice that this plan is based on the actuality that there isn’t a magical “SOMEONE” who is going to come around to check on you.  That “someone” is US.  There is no one else, and so we have to take responsibility to help ourselves, our beloved families, and our neighbors.  In this plan, we all agree to show up if we’re able and to do our part helping everyone else.  That way, there will be enough “someones” show up to help those of us who actually can’t.

• We have had approximately 6 adults trained in CERT (Community Emergency Response Team training) and / or NEST (Neighborhood Emergency Skills Team training) within every Group of 10.  We will continue to review this training and to train more of you.  Wouldn’t it be great if everyone 12 years of age and up were trained!  Then in the event of a disaster, with all families having met at the Staging Area, the NEST and CERT trained people will organize rescue efforts and make assignments for everyone who is healthy enough to help within the group.  There is a need and a place for everyone.  Various assignments within each Group of 10 will include:  child care, medical and rescue supplies (from the group supplies already stored near each Staging Area), food and water (from the group supplies for the time of the rescue effort), sanitation, communications (runners and walkie-talkies), search and rescue, and first aid, and CERT/NEST team leader (whoever is available and would make the best leader given the situation).

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• As information is gathered by each Group of 10 about the welfare of everyone in their group, this information should be recorded on Report Forms found at the end of the Communications section of this notebook.  Every notebook like this has copies of the forms.  When the form, the “General Report Form” is reasonably filled out, it should be sent from each Group of 10’s team leader by runner to “Command Central” (our E.O.C., “Emergency Operations Center”) on Woods’s front grass and given to the Neighborhood Chair or other Neighborhood leaders.    Other important information will be relayed either by our walkie-talkie system (FRS Channel 14.10) or by runner to Command Central.  This will facilitate calling in help from Groups of 10 who are able to help other Groups of 10 in need.  Then critical information will be relayed to local church and city leaders for further help from the Red Cross, and from the City, State, and FEMA, when they can get to us.  These “professional” agencies, however, will probably not be able to get help to us for at least 3 days and perhaps for as long as 2 weeks or even longer.  That’s why it’s so important that we are organized to help each other.

• Groups of 10 will care for each other as much as they are able until we see the need to pool our efforts to care for the greater neighborhood and perhaps for children stranded at Canyon Rim Elementary.  Neighborhood leaders are currently working on helping Canyon Rim to have more emergency supplies, a more complete school emergency plan, and to coordinate with us to help them if needed in a disaster.

• By working together in Groups of 10 during the first few hours (or days if necessary) after a disaster to help each other and to gather and pass on critical information, we will free up the local leaders to have time to organize and better prioritize and plan how to coordinate their efforts to help us.

• If something happens requiring a need to communicate with everyone quickly, such as a need to evacuate, one person in each Group of 10 will be contacted (the captain if possible) who will contact the rest of you by phone or in person.  If the captain is unavailable, any other person in the Group of 10 could be contacted to do it.*

* Notice that being organized this way is not person specific.  The plan should work no matter who is available and who isn’t.  All who are able show up and organize themselves to do the plan.

** Also notice that in this plan, we don’t have you wending your way to the nearest church building.  It might be that within a few days local church leaders or even the Red Cross may decide to have some sort of center or shelter at a church.  The Red Cross isn’t likely to do so, however, since the churches don't have the required shower and cooking facilities.  The Red Cross is more likely to set up shelters at the high schools.

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GROUPS OF 10 & CAPTAINS

The person volunteering to be your captain does this as a service and is not necessarily someone who is trained or who will be available to help you in an emergency.  Rather, the captain simply facilitates the group in coming together to plan out in advance how everyone can help each other get prepared and be ready to help each other in time of need.  It’s also best to have a co-captain who can function when the captain is unavailable. Ideally, your Group of 10 should meet together 2-3 times a year (or more often if needed) to assess everyone’s preparedness status to plan out ways to help each other.  Below are some suggested  ideas of what you could discuss and do to help each other in your Group of 10:

  • Make sure every person in the group understands how the neighborhood plan works and knows where the staging area is and where the alternate indoor staging area is and when to assemble there.   • Update the page with all important contact numbers and information (& give the Neighborhood Chair a copy for the master list).   • Discuss who needs help filling and rotating their water barrels and jugs and plan how you can help each other accomplish this.  (Water needs to be rotated yearly.)   • Discuss which people in the group might be best suited for which jobs after a disaster:  first aid, search and rescue, child care, organizing group medical supplies, communications, transportation, setting up a sanitation station and a shelter, organizing water and food for rescuers, being the CERT/NEST team leader. Since we don’t really know beforehand who will be available in an emergency, no permanent decisions can be made, but it’s nice to get a feel in advance for who is best suited for which capacity.   • Occasionally go through the Group supplies stored near the staging area to review what's in them and see what might need to be rotated, added to, or improved upon.   • Make sure everyone has a gas wrench tied to their meter and knows when and how to use it.   • Plan how you can help each other get your water heaters and gas pipes tied down.   • Make a list of critical needs and medicines for each family.   • Discuss sections of this emergency notebook and help each other understand what to do for different scenarios.   • Discuss the benefits of updating tetanus boosters and maybe and of getting a once-in-a-lifetime pneumonia shot (for those over the age of 55).   • Update the Group list of who has an alternate heat source (such as a wood burning or kerosene stove) and fuel storage and how much (such as wood or kerosene), and discuss how you might improve the fuel situation for your Group before a crisis hits (i.e. who might be able to store more wood, etc.)   • Discuss in advance of a serious power outage how your Group might best relocate families to homes with an alternate heat source.   • Discuss how you can best watch each other’s homes for suspicious activities and participate formally or informally in Neighborhood Watch.

    Besides occasional Group of 10 meetings as discussed above, the Neighborhood participates in two annual communications drills which help Groups of 10 to continue functioning and which helps everyone in the neighborhood to remember where their Staging Areas are.  The first of these is the annual Flag Day Communications Drill (which is a communications drill combined with Group of 10 parties) held on the Thursday evening closest to Flag Day, June 14th.  The second is the annual Community Communications Drill.  This is usually held on the Saturday preceding Halloween.  (See the specific information on each of these drills later on in this notebook.)

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Figure 2. Example of a Group of 10 Staging Area

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POWER OUTAGES AND STORMSBEFORE: • Establish an alternate heat source for your family, such as a wood burning stove, a kerosene heater, or a propane heater. Store enough wood, kerosene, or propane to last you for the cold months of one year (around here that is about 5-6 months). • Keep your chimney serviced and free from creosote build up. • Keep an emergency kit in your car with comfortable walking shoes, a candle, lighter &/or matches, poncho, blanket, safety blanket, energy bars or other food, water, and a set of regular clothes -- all in a backpack. (See Car Kit, pg. 51.)

DURING: IN YOUR CAR: • If you are stranded in your car in a blizzard, stay in your car until the blizzard is over unless you can see a building close by where you can take shelter. Crack a downwind window and run your heater about 10 minutes/hr. to stay warm. • If possible, keep the snow cleared away from your exhaust pipe. • Turn on your hazard lights or light a flare. • Spread a large colored cloth over the snow or tie one to your antenna to attract attention. • Be careful not to run your battery down. • Try not to sleep -- you may freeze to death. Take turns sleeping if there is more than one of you. • Keep your head covered. Most of your body heat is lost out the top of your head. • Use your coat as a blanket and share body heat if you have another person with you. • Do not do things that make you colder like eating snow, drinking cold water, doing physical exercise that will make you sweat, sitting or lying on the cold ground or snow.

AT HOME: • If at home, send one person to your alternate indoor Staging Area to establish who in your Group of 10 has an ability to stay warm and who needs help. • Decide as a Group how you will relocate those who need help. • Be sure to ventilate properly if you are using a wood burning stove or kerosene or propane heater. Crack a window. • Refuel the heater outside at least 3 feet away from flammable objects. • If your house is getting cold, open your faucets enough to let them drip. This will help to keep your pipes from freezing.

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WHAT TO DO BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER AN EARTHQUAKEBEFORE: • Tie down your water heater & gas pipes (see section on utilities in this notebook). • Put latches on your cabinet doors, move heavy mirrors and frames away from your bed. • Keep a flashlight, some sturdy shoes, and an extra pair of glasses near your bed. • Keep an extra pair of prescription or reading glasses in your 72-hr. kit. • Meet with your Group of 10 and get everyone’s out-of-state emergency phone numbers (so all your family members and your Group of 10 have someone reachable by phone to give and receive information to/from about you and your family members in an emergency. Have everyone in your family learn the out-of-state number. • Take First Aid, CPR, and CERT (or NEST) courses. • Work through this notebook systematically and get prepared. • Have at least one good (minimally) 5-lb. metal top ABC fire extinguisher on every floor of your home. • Turn fire extinguishers over every 6 months to keep the powder from caking. Do it until you feel the powder slide freely. Whack the bottom with a rubber mallet. • Have smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors on every level of your home and replace the batteries every 6 months. • Have natural gas or propane detectors near your furnace and water heater or boiler. • Store copies of all your important documents (see the last page of the 72-hr. kit list in this notebook) in a fire safe or in a safe place away from your home. • Rotate your storage water yearly. (See section on Water Purification & Sanitation.) • Make a family emergency plan for how you will evacuate your home and for where you will meet if you are separated or not home during a disaster -- consider every possible option. Kids must know what to do and what to expect from you. • Keep an emergency kit with some comfortable walking shoes and water and a coat at work and/or in your car (and other things -- see previous page.) • Have lots of plastic sheeting, tarps, staple gun and staples, and duct tape. • Have a flex hose put on your water heater and furnace. • Get some self-charging, plug-in power failure lights. • There are automatic gas shut off valves available (for some $). • Velcro small appliances down and put grip liner on your shelves. • Get earthquake insurance; check on the quality of your fire insurance.

DURING: • Get out of the kitchen! Whole fridges as well as all the dishes can go flying across the room. Go to the safest place in your home -- probably an interior hallway away from doors, windows, and heavy objects. This is one of the best-framed places in your home. Sit on the floor and brace yourself with your feet and back

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against opposite walls. If you can’t get to an interior hallway, get under a heavy desk or table and hold onto its legs. • If you’re already inside, do NOT run outside (in general). There is lots of danger from falling bricks and debris. Normally, wait until the quake is over to go outside. However, many homes are unframed (like mine) and you need to allow yourself to be inspired as to whether to run out and take your chances with debris rather than having the house collapse on you. Lying in the bathtub is not a bad idea. • If you’re in your car, pull over and stop -- stay in your car until shaking stops. • Inside a mall, duck into the nearest store. • In a theater, don’t run out, get lower than the seat backs and hold on. • It’s worth doing CPR on someone if you were there and started it during the first 4 minutes of their collapse. If you weren’t there within the first 4 minutes, it’s not worth it. Chances are almost 100% that you can’t revive them or revive them to any quality of life.

AFTER: • Be prepared for aftershocks. • If you suspect damage to wires, appliances, gas, water, or sewage lines (anywhere down line), DO NOT USE! • Leave a note in your abandoned car telling name, phone, address, plans. • If you have to evacuate your home, leave a note for other family members. • Listen to your radio for information from the Emergency Broadcast System. • Gather your family, do whatever you need for their safety, inspect your utilities and turn off if necessary, and take everyone to your Staging Area, noticing damage to other homes along the way. If turning off the electricity, turn off the main breaker first, then the small breakers. • Hang all phones back up as soon as possible (including pay phones), and avoid using phone lines except when absolutely necessary. • In buildings, do not use the elevators. • At home, do not use fireplaces until the flue or chimney has been checked. • Do not stay in buildings or homes with moderate to heavy damage. Don’t enter homes or buildings with heavy damage to rescue others. • Propane, kerosene, butane give off mostly CO2 ==> OK inside, IF WELL VENTILATED. Charcoal and Coleman fuel give off CO ==> must be burned outside. • a 55 gal. drum of kerosene and a kerosene heater could keep you warm and cook your food for a year. • Eat fridge food first, frozen food second, canned and dry food last.

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BIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL, & NUCLEAR ATTACKSEVACUATION & IN-PLACE SHELTERING

Although we all hope it will never happen, it is possible for us to have a biological, chemical, or nuclear incident here in our state. Besides that we have several possible nuclear attack targets, we also have the possibility of a bio/chemical incident from several sources:

a) an accident at military supply depots b) a terrorist or military attack c) a truck or railroad accident d) food or water contamination

If a biological, chemical, or nuclear incident were to happen here, there are 2 main ways that each of these things could be dealt with. One is to evacuate, and the other is to do 1 of 3 types of in-place sheltering. What is really important for you to know is that all of these things are survivable. We just need to do our part to be ready for whatever may come, and it really isn’t that hard.

INCIDENT IFEVACUATING

IF NOTEVACUATING

    do: CHEMICAL evacuate short-term in-

place sheltering

 BIOLOGICAL evacuate quarantining

     

NUCLEAR evacuate long-term in-place sheltering

I. First let’s talk about what happens if we have to EVACUATE:

EVACUATION

If authorities tell us to EVACUATE, they will probably only be evacuating one local area to another, since it would be physically impossible to evacuate Utah County with the limited number of access routes. But if we do need to EVACUATE:

• stay calm, listen carefully, and follow all instructions. • listen to your radio to make sure the evacuation order applies to you or that it is coming from an official source**. Note whether you are to evacuate immediately or if you have time to pack some essentials. Do NOT use your telephone. Telephone lines are quickly jammed in an emergency.

**The only OFFICIAL sources of information are the stations listed below. Other stations are either getting their information from them, or they are making it up. Don’t trust any unofficial source.

for Utah County: KBYU 89.5 FM Radiofor SL County: KSL 1160 AM or 102.7 FM Radio ** replace this info with that for your area, or KSL TV, typically channel 5 and same on pg. 20

If you are told to evacuate immediately, do, and if feasible:

• Close and lock your windows. • Shut off all vents, furnaces, air conditioners, and air exchange units. • Grab your 72-hr kit and/or car emergency kit if possible.

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• Lock the doors. • Move quickly and calmly. • You do not need to turn off your refrigerator or freezer, but you should turn off all other appliances and lights before locking your home as you leave. • Make sure someone has notified all families in your Group of 10 and offer to help those who need help, especially those with disabilities or other special needs. • If you need a ride, ask a neighbor. If no neighbor is available to help you, listen to the emergency broadcast station for further instructions. • Take only one car to the evacuation destination if possible. • Close your car windows and air vents and turn off the car heater or air conditioner. • Do not take shortcuts because a shortcut may put you in the path of danger. For your safety, follow the exact route you are told to take. • If you take pets with you, take food for them too. Know that they will not be allowed in public shelters.

Do in-place sheltering if for some reason it’s impossible for you to evacuate.

I. Second, let’s talk about what happens if we don’t have to evacuate or can't.

Biological and chemical agents are carried either by wind (following normal wind patterns), in water, food, or by animal or human carriers. Know that it is highly unlikely that we will have a problem with anything airborne in our area. But, if we do, or if you are somewhere else where something airborne does occur:

1st) Get out of the immediate vicinity of the incident if it is near to you. Cover your mouth and nose with a wet cloth or shirt if possible. Run, don’t walk, and you will have time to move faster than whatever is being carried by normal wind (which is only 2-3 mph). Get to where you can hear official information**.

2nd) If you have been exposed to a chemical agent, follow the DECONTAMINATION instructions below as quickly as possible.

3rd) Turn on your radio or TV to one of official stations listed above**.

If they tell you to EVACUATE, follow the instructions above. But if not, you will need to do one of the following IN-PLACE SHELTERING methods (if the problem is blowing your way).

SHORT-TERM IN-PLACE SHELTERING for a chemical problem:(Chances are slim that we will need this in our area.)

IN ADVANCE, select a room in your home where you would do the in-place sheltering. An upstairs and interior room is by far the most preferable as some chemical hazards are heavier than air and travel along the ground and will enter basement shelters more easily. The room you choose should have caulked baseboards (or else get them caulked). And the room should be large enough to hold air for all the intended occupants. Be aware that a full-size dog uses twice as much air as an adult, and cats use half the air. To determine air needs and occupancy have everyone you’ll want in the room stand and twirl with outstretched arms (or paws). If they can do this without touching anyone else's outstretched arms there is enough air for one hour. (i.e. an 8 foot by 6 foot typical bathroom holds enough air for 2 adults and a child under 6 years of age for one hour.) You will probably only need to be in this room for about an hour. The chemical cloud will disperse quickly with the wind.

After selecting which room you’ll use, still IN ADVANCE, make a list and keep it handy of what you will keep in that room or bring there quickly if you have to shelter there. You will need to have:

ESSENTIAL TO HAVE ON HAND ALREADY: • enough plastic sheeting (4 mil is better than 3 mil, but you can use down to 2 mil) to cover any windows, vents, or fixtures in your chosen room. Pre-cut and label the plastic sheeting as described below.*** • 1 or 2 rolls of duct tape

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• a radio or TV to check for OFFICIAL** news as to when it's safe to come out. It is better to have a battery-powered radio on hand already, but if you are using an electric radio or TV, be sure to tape around the plug at the outlet to keep air out (as well as taping over all other electric outlets). If you are using a bathroom, remember to secure around the pipes under the sink, and around ceiling vents. • a flashlight in case you lose power -- Do not use candles or lanterns, as they burn valuable oxygen.

OPTIONAL: • a porta-potty (5 or 6 gal. bucket lined with kitchen garbage bags + some RV/holding tank toilet chemical or a pail of dirt + a lid or plastic snap-on toilet seat). If you use your regular inside toilet, DON’T FLUSH IT, because this displaces valuable air. • coats, blankets • a telephone

HAVING MADE THESE DECISIONS IN ADVANCE, HERE’S WHAT YOU DO IF AN INCIDENT HAPPENS:

First: **Turn on a radio or TV for OFFICIAL information. In Utah County this is KBYU - 89.5 FM, and SL County is KSL - 1160 AM (102.7 FM), or KSL (channel 5?) on TV.

Second: Turn off all mechanical or electrically operated air intakes or air exchanges to your home, business, school, or church, etc., namely your furnace or air conditioner, chimney flue dampers, and any fans. TURN THE FURNACE OR A/C OFF either at the furnace switch or at the thermostat. Don’t just turn the thermostat down. Do NOT take the time to get on your roof to cover vents and/or chimney openings.

Third: Close, lock, and secure your home (windows, doors, animal entries, etc.). Close windows, blinds, and drapes.

Fourth: 1. Gather your family and pets and the listed supplies into your selected room, and using the pre-cut and labeled plastic sheeting*** and duct tape, make the room as air-tight as possible. While gathering your family, you can provide a minimal amount of protection to your breathing by covering your mouth and nose with a damp (not soaking wet) cloth. 2. Wet some towels and jam them in the crack under each door in that room. 3. With the pre-cut plastic sheeting and duct tape, cover over windows, heat vents, light switches, power sockets, fireplaces, baseboard gaps (if the baseboards aren’t caulked), light fixtures, and entire door frames.

*** In advance, cut the plastic sheeting to fit entirely over the window and door frame (so that you are actually taping the plastic onto the interior wall and not the casing), and then label each cut piece of plastic sheeting with a marker pen as to where it will go.

4. Limit activity and air usage in the room. 5. It is advisable not to use water from the taps or flush toilets as this could displace valuable air. 6. Do not use lanterns or candles. This definitely uses oxygen. If your power is still on, it is fine to use your electric lights. 7. Stay inside your sealed shelter until you are told OFFICIALLY it is safe to leave. Realize you may still need to stay indoors, quarantined, for a longer period of time.

When you are OFFICIALLY told it is safe to come out, have one person put a wet cloth over their mouth and nose and go through your house, opening up all doors and windows to air out anything that has come into your home. You can use fans to help air out your home.

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QUARANTINING for a biological problem:

As you saw above, in-place sheltering for a chemical problem is extremely short-term and requires an absolutely air-tight room. Neither of these is the case when the problem is biological. It is extremely unlikely that we will experience a dangerous cloud of biological stuff blowing our way. More likely is that the problem will be an outbreak of some disease that comes either through contaminated food or water, or via contaminated people.

If this should occur QUARANTINING will be required. This means you, if you are sure you haven’t been exposed, will stay in your home for the length of the community life of the disease. This could as long as 3 months -- the authorities will tell you when it’s safe to stop the quarantine. During quarantining, you can use your heat and electricity, go out to the wood pile and garage, but you must not come in contact with other people that you can’t be certain have not been exposed. If you are sure you have been exposed, go to the hospital immediately. If you don’t know whether you’ve been exposed or not, do separate quarantining of yourself from the rest of your family members -- perhaps in the garage, until you are sure one way or the other.

NUCLEAR ATTACK AND LONG TERM IN-PLACE SHELTERING:

If our state receives a nuclear blast, although it may not be right near us, the bigger danger is the fallout. This would be the case for us even if the blast were in a state far away. Here are some facts to know:

• never look at the blast• begin taking Thyroid-Block tablets or some other form of potassium-iodide/iodate according to the instructions on the bottle (possibly 1 tablet/day for 2 weeks).• decontaminate from fallout (fallout is dust, dirt, or particles that have radiation molecules attached to them.)

Anything porous must be thrown away. (See DECONTAMINATION instructions below)

• go to a FULL basement and stay there 100% for at least 2 weeks if you are within 350 downwind miles of the explosion. Listen to OFFICIAL information. Mass is what protects you from radiation. So window wells could be filled with dirt, magazines, or books. You will probably need to stay in your basement or fallout shelter for at least 6 days if you are further away than 350 miles, and then only come out for short periods after that until official information gives the OK. After 2 weeks you can come out for short periods of time, and after 3 weeks for several hours.• water can be decontaminated from fallout by filtering it. Radiation does not attach to water, only to the dust and particles that have dropped into the water. NEVER boil water with fallout in it until after is has been filtered.• after 5 weeks it might safe to be outdoors for up to 14 hours/day.

DECONTAMINATING:If you have been exposed to a chemical agent or nuclear fallout, BEFORE ENTERING YOUR HOME OR SHELTER, remove ALL your clothing and all jewelry and wash your skin and hair completely: first with water, then with bleach (3/4 cup Clorox in 1 gallon water), then with soap and water. Don’t get the Clorox solution in your eyes, ears, nose, or mouth. If the problem is nuclear fallout, you can skip the Clorox step. You can also wash your jewelry and any plastic ID or credit cards. Dry off with a clean towel. All clothing, paper, and wash cloths, must be put into a garbage bag to be thrown away later when it is safe to go out. If it’s safe to be outside, and your water supply is safe, you can use your hose.

As you can see, this means you should keep 5 gallons of water, a wash cloth and towel, some Clorox, and soap and shampoo, some wet wipes, and some garbage bags in your garage or other decontamination place.

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HOW TO TURN OFF YOUR UTILITIES

GAS: keep a gas turn-off wrench attached to your gas meter with a cord or wire, but bury it or cover it to keep it out of sight. If you're using a crescent wrench, set it to the exact setting and keep it in a plastic bag. It will probably rust anyway but will be set right to do the job.

You can always turn your gas off if you have reason to fear a gas leak. Questar Gas says that you should turn it off yourself if:

-- your house is severely damaged (like by an earthquake or tornado)-- and/or you smell gas or hear it leaking (Call them when possible if it's not a disaster = 801-324-5111.)

“Stop, look, listen, and smell” to test for a gas leak.

• It is very important to know that if you do turn your gas off after a disaster, turning back on yourself might void your homeowner’s insurance policy if you have anyone other than a certified technician turn your gas back on -- even if you know how to relight the pilot lights. Actually, this isn’t as dumb as it might seem. Certified technicians have the equipment needed to check for leaks in your outside gas line and other places where you couldn't detect them but which could blow up your house. There are normal times (like after moving to another home) where Questar can OK you to turn on your own gas and light the pilot light.

The picture below shows how to turn off your gas. With the wrench turn the valve 90° (a quarter turn). We recommend that in a disaster you label your meter with a tag that says you have turned your gas off, so that some well-meaning person who comes along and smells gas too, doesn’t accidentally turn it back on while meaning to turn it off.

WATER: Your water can usually be turned off in 2 places, one in your basement or crawl space where the water main comes into your house from outside, and the other in the water meter can outside near the street. If we have a crisis that could either break water lines or do anything to contaminate our water supply, consider immediately turning off your water out at the street. This can protect you from pulling in contaminated water and keep the water in your pipes from being sucked out by the neighbors down line. To have the use of the extra water in your pipes, having turned off your water valve at the street, open all the faucets in the upper part of your house, and the water will drain to the faucets downstairs. Consider turning off your water after a severe earthquake even if your house seems fine, because the city water supply could be contaminated elsewhere by the quake. If the water turn-off valve is old or rarely used, it might be bound up and you could possibly break it while trying to turn the water on or off. Nevertheless, it might be better to give it a try than to let your house flood.

To turn off your water in your basement or crawl space, see the picture below. To turn it off at the street, use pliers or channel locks to rotate the pentagonal nut on the meter can lid until it feels loose. Then you can pry the lid up. You might need a sprinkler key to reach the valve and turn it, not because it is so far down, but because of its awkward placement near the meter. (You can buy 3'- 4’ water keys at Lowe’s or Home Depot for about $10). Some water main valves turn off with a quarter (90º) turn, like your gas meter, BUT SOME TURN OFF WITH 180º TURN! It's really important that you figure this out before a disaster happens. You can go out and turn on your hose in the front yard, and then see how far you have to turn your water main valve to turn the hose water off (being careful not to break the valve).

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ELECTRICITY: Being able to turn off your electricity is also very important. Inside your home you probably have individual breakers or fuses for different things in your home, but outside within 3 feet of your electric meter you will have a box on your house with the master breaker for your entire house. You should turn this off first, and then turn off all the little switches inside so that you don’t get power surges frying your appliances and computer when your electricity comes back on. To turn your electricity back on, reverse this process and do the little ones first and the big one last.

TYING DOWN YOUR WATER HEATER & GAS PIPES: Your water heater can be an extra source of water for you in an emergency, but it can also be the thing that blows up your house in an earthquake if it falls over and breaks the gas line. If you haven’t done it already, you need to get a technician to install a flex hose on the gas lines to your water heater(s) and furnace(s), and then get your water heater(s) tied down. This can be accomplished by hiring a plumber to bolt it to the floor with a steel brace (more expensive, but easy), or you can go to a hardware store (Lowes, Home Depot, etc.) and buy a kit. See the picture below for how to strap your water heater down in this way. For those of you who have free-standing water heaters which have nothing to tie them to, or water heaters in finished utility closets, you can hire a handyman or carpenter to do this for you for a reasonable cost. If you can't get around to it, or don't know how to do it, ask a friend or neighbor, or hire someone to get this done! You also need tie down the hard part of the gas pipes that feed the flex hoses so that they won't swing wildly in an earthquake and break.

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WATER STORAGE, PURIFICATION, & SANITATION

We recommend that you store about 25 gal. of water per person, where possible. This would be almost 2 gal. per person per day for about 2 weeks -- 1 gal. for drinking and cooking, 1 for washing and sanitation. According to most city water departments, it is best not to add bleach to your water storage since our city water supply is already chlorinated, but rotate your water storage yearly. If you believe your water might not be pure enough at the time you are going to drink it, you can purify it by one of the methods below. Have more than one source of water storage: have something like 55-gal. barrels AND some 5-gal. jugs. And be sure to have some sort of siphon pump or short hose for use with your large barrels.

PURIFYING WATER It's much easier to keep from getting sick by taking care to purify your water than to deal with getting sick from drinking bad water.

Water purification has three facets: 1) filtering out particles of dirt, debris, and micro-organisms which are large enough to be filtered out (this includes parasites and bacteria -- Giardia is a parasite); 2) purifying the water by killing any micro-organisms which are too small to be filtered out (this includes viruses); 3) adsorbing any harmful chemicals which have dissolved into or entered the water.

Here are the main steps in the process:

1)! Start with the best water you can.2)! Pre-filter it through a cloth or special bag to get out as much dirt and debris as possible, thus protecting ! the life of your filter.3)! Run the water through your filter. Ceramic, gravity-drip filter systems are excellent. (There are ! expensive models like AquaRain, Berkey, and Katadyn, and inexpensive models like "Just Water".)4)! If there's any reason to think your water might have been contaminated by a virus, you should "treat" ! the water. Either: a) boil it for 1-3 min., according to the EPA; b) keep it over 170º F for 2 hrs., !! c) treat it with clorox or iodine, d) expose it to uv radiation (sunlight) -- lay the water in the sun in PET ! plastic water bottles (< 2 liters) for a min. 4 hrs. on a bright, sunny day, but better for 2 days. Lay the ! bottles down (not standing) on a reflective surface, like foil. Align with the sun. The water should first ! be filtered and clear. http://modernsurvivalblog.com/health/how-to-purify-water-with-sunlight/5)! If there's any reason to think your water might be contaminated with chemicals of any kind, run it ! through ! a carbon (activated charcoal) filter. You can make your own -- see the next page. Ceramic ! filters usually have carbon cores, and you can tell when they've reached their adsorption limit when the ! water starts to "taste". You can get activated charcoal at pet stores -- used for fish tanks. Getting out ! harmful chemicals is tricky -- activated charcoal will take out some, but all --? If you suspect chemical ! contamination, either don’t use that water, or filter it with activated charcoal and hope for the best.

Disinfecting: According to the Red Cross, “The only agent used to purify water should be household liquid bleach. Add 16 drops of bleach per gallon of water if the water is cloudy, stir and let stand for 30 minutes. (If it’s clear, only add 8 drops.) If the water does not have a slight bleach odor [after 30 minutes], repeat the dosage and let stand another 15 minutes.” Use household bleach (5.25% sodium hypochlorite as its only active ingredient). It has a shelf-life of 6-12 months.

How much bleach to use for purifying water:

amount of water clear water cloudy water1 quart 2 drops 4 drops1 gallon 8 drops 16 drops5 gallons ½ tsp 1 tsp55 gallons 5 ½ tsp 11 tsp

Tincture of Iodine: Common household iodine from the medicine chest may be used to disinfect water. Add 5 drops of 2% U.S.P. Iodine to each quart of clear water. For cloudy water, add 10 drops, and let the solution stand for at least 30 minutes. Iodine has a shelf life of 3 years.

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Large Quantity Home-made filter: You can also make an inexpensive filter yourself that will filter about 1000 gallons of water. Get a 4-6 gal. bucket and cut a hole in the side as shown below. Place a piece of muslin or a piece of clean bed sheet over the top with a dip in the center. Tie a cotton rope (cotton clothesline works great) around the top of the bucket under one of the ridges to hold the material in place. Layer sand and activated charcoal in the bucket = 7 layers, 1/2” thick each. Place a bowl or pan inside the bucket under the material to catch water. Pour water into the bucket over the sand and charcoal layers. Let the water filter through to the collecting pan underneath. Empty the bowl occasionally. This device will filter about 7-8 gallons per day.!The finer the sand, the better: (Lowe’s, Home Depot); and you can get activated charcoal at pet stores in the aquarium section. You’ll need about a quart of charcoal and about a gallon of sand.

**Note: radioactive fallout can be filtered out of water. NEVER boil water with fallout in it before filtering.

SANITATION

Sanitation is a big issue in a disaster. Home toilets might be unusable, and “going in the bushes” is not very smart if you want to avoid disease. Even latrines can cause problems. In densely populated areas, improper handling of human waste can be a source of epidemic. More people can die of cholera caused by improper sanitation than die from the initial disaster. In the event of a disaster, you should stop flushing your toilets and stop using your drains immediately until notified by the city that it is all right. Even if your water is running and the system seems to be working, flushing toilets and using drains can cause sewage to back up into your homes. The best thing is to collect waste in a safe way, such as in a porta-potty lined with a plastic bag (or in a home toilet emptied of water, sanitized, and then lined with a heavy duty garbage bag) taking care to cover the waste between uses to keep flies and other pests away from it. (You can cover each layer with a little dirt, kitty litter, or better still -- some Borax and lime.) If possible, find out what the city wants you to do with the collected waste. They will be working to get sewage facilities up and running and will let you know as soon as possible where and how to dispose of the waste. They might have you bring it to central dumping holes or tell you that it’s safe to use your home toilets. They might tell you to bury waste in a trench in your yard. It is good to have some lime on hand (get at Intermountain Farmers/IFA) to layer over the waste in your porta-potty and in the latrines to speed up the composting. If you get lime, put it safely in plastic buckets that are kid-proof.

IF it is necessary to bury the waste, it should be buried several feet deep in the ground, poking holes in the plastic bags with a pitch fork or other tool to aid in composting. Cover each layer with dirt and lime to keep off insects. If you will be burying the waste, it is best to collect and bury solid waste separately from wet waste. Burying waste can contaminate ground water where the ground water levels are shallow. We don’t want to do anything to contaminate our drinking water supply.

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