Disaster Supply Kit & Family Safety Planner
Be Ready. Stay Safe. Prepare your family, protect your pets, build your emergency supplies, and create a plan before disaster strikes.
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✅ Emergency Supply Checklist
Check off items as you build your emergency kit. Expand any category to see its supplies.
📦 General Emergency Supplies
🥫 Food & Water
⛑ First Aid & Medical
👕 Clothing & Shelter
📞 Emergency Contacts & Documents
🚗 Vehicle & Evacuation
🔥 Fire Safety Equipment
🐾 Pet Emergency Supplies
👶 Special Needs & Accessibility
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👨👩👧 Family Emergency Meetings
Schedule family preparedness meetings at least twice a year or whenever important household circumstances change. Every family member should understand the plan.
1. Meeting Locations
Choose an outdoor meeting point for a home fire, a neighborhood reunion location and an out-of-town evacuation destination.
2. Communication Plan
Choose an out-of-town emergency contact. Write down important phone numbers and decide how everyone will check in if cellular service fails.
3. Assign Responsibilities
Decide who assists children, older adults and people with disabilities, handles pets, collects medications and monitors alerts.
4. Practice Together
Practice fire escapes, tornado sheltering and evacuation procedures. Review school pickup arrangements and alternate transportation.
Where is our emergency kit? What are two ways out? Where is our tornado shelter? Who handles the pets? How do we reunite if separated? When do we evacuate?
Remember: Never delay escaping a burning building to collect supplies, documents or other belongings.
🔥 Fire Safety & Evacuation
Home fires can spread rapidly. Make an escape plan, maintain working smoke alarms and prepare for wildfire evacuations where applicable.
🏠 Home Fire Escape Plan
Identify two ways out of every room and select a safe outdoor meeting point. Keep all escape routes clear.
Practice home fire drills with everyone at least twice each year.
🚨 Smoke & CO Alarms
Install smoke alarms inside bedrooms, outside sleeping areas and on every level. Test according to manufacturer instructions.
Use carbon monoxide alarms where required or recommended by applicable safety guidance.
🧯 Fire Extinguishers
Keep appropriate extinguishers accessible. Know how to use them, but only attempt to extinguish a small, contained fire if trained, safe and able to escape.
Otherwise evacuate and call 911.
🚪 Escaping a Fire
Leave immediately when your smoke alarm sounds. Stay low beneath smoke and use another route if an exit is blocked.
Close doors behind you when possible. Once outside, stay outside. Never reenter.
🌲 Wildfire Preparedness
Remove combustible debris near your home, follow local defensible-space recommendations, prepare go-bags and know evacuation routes.
Leave immediately when ordered by authorities.
💨 Wildfire Smoke
Monitor air-quality alerts, limit outdoor smoke exposure and use suitable indoor filtration.
A properly fitted N95 respirator can help protect adults from fine smoke particles.
Close the door between you and the fire, call 911, report your exact location and signal rescuers from a window. Follow dispatcher instructions.
🐾 Pet Safety & Calming Medications
Storms, evacuation, fireworks and emergency sirens may cause significant anxiety in animals. Prepare your pets before emergencies occur.
🐶 Comfort & Anxiety
Set up a quiet space with familiar blankets, toys and an appropriately sized carrier. Practice carrier use before an emergency.
💊 Calming Medication
Discuss storm and travel anxiety with your veterinarian before disaster season. Ask whether prescription medication is appropriate for your animal.
Follow veterinary instructions for timing, administration, storage and side effects.
🚗 Pet Evacuation
Identify pet-friendly hotels, boarding facilities and alternative places to stay. Keep carriers, leashes and vaccination records ready.
🔥 Pets During a Fire
Plan ahead for evacuating pets. Never reenter a burning building to rescue an animal. Inform firefighters if a pet is still inside.
Never give pets human sedatives, sleeping pills or leftover medication without explicit veterinary approval. Some medications are dangerous to animals.
🗺 Emergency Supply Location Planner
Write down where your emergency supplies are stored. These locations will also appear in your printed guide.
💧 Water & Food Calculator
Estimate minimum emergency water needs and meal counts based on household size and preparation days.
Based on one gallon of water and three meals per person per day. More water may be necessary for hot climates, medical needs, children and pets.
🌪 Weather & Disaster Safety
🌪 Tornado
Shelter in a basement or small interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. Stay away from windows and protect your head.
🌊 Flood
Never drive or walk through floodwaters. Know evacuation routes and avoid electrical equipment in flooded areas.
🌀 Hurricane
Know your evacuation zone, secure outdoor objects, prepare supplies and leave when authorities issue an evacuation order.
🔌 Power Outage
Use flashlights instead of candles. Operate generators outdoors at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. Never operate generators indoors or in garages.
🔥 Wildfire
Monitor evacuation alerts, prepare pets and belongings early and identify alternate escape routes. Do not wait for flames to become visible before leaving.
🌡 Extreme Heat
Store extra drinking water, limit activity during peak heat and locate cooling centers. Never leave people or pets in parked vehicles.
📡 Stay Informed & Connected
Monitor official weather warnings, emergency management announcements, local news and NOAA Weather Radio.
In the United States, call 911 for an immediate life-threatening emergency. Always follow official local emergency instructions.
