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DHS and FEMA
Special eBrief
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This Citizen Corps News Digest is provided by FEMA's Individual & Community Preparedness Division to highlight community preparedness and resilience resources and activities recently announced by federal agencies and Citizen Corps partners. |
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Prepare Your Pet and Promote Life Saving Skills
DHS -FEMA - Special eBrief
Be heard…Email comments or suggestions to us at FEMA-prepare@fema.dhs.gov
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National Pet Preparedness Month is in June. Pets cannot plan for themselves. Use the month to make a plan for your pet's safety.
If you need to evacuate your home for any reason, do not forget your pet. The Ready Campaign offers guidance and tips to:
- Make a pet emergency plan.
- Prepare to shelter with your pet.
- Protect your pet during and after a disaster.
- Care for large animals.
Learn more about how to prepare your pets for emergencies at www.ready.gov/animals . Help spread the word about National Pet Preparedness Month via your social networks by using the Pet Preparedness Social Media Toolkit . |
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As severe weather like floods and hurricanes draws near, promote life saving skills. We make it easy with our new Life Saving Skills Social Media Toolkit. Use it and share it with your followers today .
You can share messages from the Toolkit on your social media channels. We also encourage you to customize the message to reach your audience best. This Toolkit contains preparedness messages to help protect individuals, families, and homes. There are also graphics that can fit a variety of messages in the Toolkit.
Begin using the Life Saving Skills Toolkit today. |
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The 2017 hurricane season brought severe weather to Chatham County, GA. It left many residents asking, “What can we do to help?”
The You Are the Help Until Help Arrives training became the answer. The Chatham County Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) held its first class in November 2017. They have taught a morning and a night class each month since.
The CEMA also plans to offer the training in Spanish and American Sign Language by September 2018.
Read the full Chatham County article to learn more. |
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Jeff Baugh had just brought his newborn daughter home when Hurricane Harvey hit. After the storm, flood insurance from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) allowed his family to get back to their home and back to their lives more quickly.
“Nobody ever thinks it is going to be their house,” Baugh said. “You always hope for the best and prepare for the worst, which makes flood insurance a non-question. It's imperative to have it to protect your property.”
Watch this Survivor Story video to learn how fast, easy, and important the NFIP was to the Baugh family. Flood insurance is sold separately and is typically not a part of a homeowner's insurance policy. It also takes 30 days from purchase before a flood insurance policy is effective. Learn more about flood insurance by visiting www.floodsmart.gov . |
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Join the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Individual and Community Preparedness Division to learn about new Life Saving Skills messages and graphics. These new resources cover simple, low, and no-cost preparedness actions. This webinar will introduce the new resources and show how you can help people improve household safety, as well as financial, and emergency preparedness.
Title: Webinar - Life Saving Skills: Simple, Low-cost Activities for Individual and Community Preparedness
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET
How to Join the Webinar:
We hope that you will be able to join us on Wednesday, June 20!
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region 2 and the FEMA Individual and Community Preparedness Division would like to invite you to a webinar on cyber threats. The speaker will be Matthew Kovner, who is the Senior Intelligence Analyst from the North East Region of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This event will highlight the promising practices you can use to stay safe.
Title: Webinar - Community Conversation: How to Prepare for Cyber Threats
Date: Thursday, June 21, 2018
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET
How to Join the Webinar:
We hope that you will be able to join us on Thursday, June 21!
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Disclaimer: The reader recognizes that the federal government provides links and informational data on various disaster preparedness resources and events and does not endorse any non-federal events, entities, organizations, services or products. Please let us know about other events and services for individual and community preparedness that could be included in future newsletters by contacting: FEMA-prepare@fema.dhs.gov
About FEMA
FEMA's mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.
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The social media links provided are for reference only. FEMA does not endorse any non-government websites, companies or applications. |
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