You can use the following information to help prepare your family and yourself from emergency situations, as well as for presentations to citizen groups. The information is divided into four categories: General Personal Preparedness, Cold and Flu, School, Kids, and Family, and multi-lingual.

General Personal Preparedness

• Are You Ready? An In-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness from FEMA

• Liberty Mutual Preparedness Information: Provides information on a variety of preparedness topics including Earthquakes, Floods, Hurricanes, Thunder, Lightning, & Hail, Tornados, Wildfires, Ice Dams, and Freezing Pipes.

• Fact Sheet: What You Should Know In Deciding Whether to Buy Escape Hoods, Gas Masks, or Other Respirators for Preparedness at Home and Work
  Provides information on what respirators are, how they work, and what is needed for a respirator to provide protection.

• Eye Safety - Emergency Response & Disaster Recovery
  En Español
  Overview of eye hazards and injuries, types of eye protection, safety for prescription lens wearers, first aid.

• From the Red Cross: Preparedness Guides
  • Prepare Your Workplace and Employees
  • Shelter In Place Tips
  • Preparedness Fast Facts: 
  • Addresses how to deal with a wide-range of situations. 

• Surviving Disasters A Citizen’s Emergency Handbook. from Illinois Department of Public Health.

• Healthy Roads Media: Wide range of videos addressing emergency preparedness.

• Emergency preparedness kit checklist and pamphlet from Yale New Haven Center for
  Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response

• Emergency Disinfection of Drinking Water (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water)
  Also available in Spanish, French, Arabic, and Vietnamese.

• Self assessment preparedness tool see if you are really prepared

• Emergency Document Bag - Made up of the most important and irreplaceable papers, photos, mementos, and a backup of your computer