Prepare by:
- Taking courses in CPR and CERT (emergency training) offered by your community.
- Learning more about your school's emergency and reunification procedures.
- Utilizing resources from Homeland Security and The American Red Cross to formulate emergency plans for your family.
- Reviewing school safety procedures and discussing them with your children.
- Keeping emergency phone numbers close by your phones and programmed into your cell phones.
In the event of an emergency, it is natural for parents to want to be reunited with their children immediately. The first priority of school and emergency staff, on the other hand, will be to secure the area, protect the children and tend to the injured. For a response effort to be successful, it is vital that parents not interfere. Your patience and cooperation during such a difficult time can save childrens' lives.
- Please keep your cars away from the school so that emergency vehicles can have immediate and clear access to the school.
- Please keep clear of the school until reunification procedures begin.
- Please allow evacuations to proceed without interference. You may pick-up your children at their evacuation center. Remember, if you have children in more than one PUSD school, they will probably all be evacuated to the same location.
- Please understand and follow reunification procedures.
- Please maintain calm and show respect to school and emergency personnel.
If a school is evacuated or reunification is delayed, you can help your family, school and community by:
- Using your language skills to communicate with members of the community who don't speak English.
- Forming support groups to centralize communication, care for young children and help maintain calm.
- Checking on neighbors who might need extra assistance.
- Donating blood.
- Referring the Media to the District Public Affairs Officer (858-679-2631).
American Red Cross
- Your Family Disaster Plan (pdf) (highly recommended)
- Disaster Preparedness
- Prepare.org
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