Saskatchewan Federation of Police Officers 117 TERRORISM PREPAREDNESS • Call your family contact—do not use the telephone again unless it is a lifethreatening emergency. • Check on your neighbors, especially those who are elderly or disabled. A Word on What Could Happen As we’ve learned from previous events, the following things can happen after a terrorist attack: • There can be significant numbers of casualties and/or damage to buildings and the infrastructure. So employers need up-to-date information about any medical needs you may have and on how to contact your designated beneficiaries. • Heavy law enforcement involvement at local, state and federal levels follows a terrorist attack due to the event's criminal nature. • Health and mental health resources in the affected communities can be strained to their limits, maybe even overwhelmed. • Extensive media coverage, strong public fear and international implications and consequences can continue for a prolonged period. • Workplaces and schools may be closed, and there may be restrictions on domestic and international travel. • You and your family or household may have to evacuate an area, avoiding roads blocked for your safety. • Clean-up may take many months. Finding out what can happen is the first step. Once you have determined the events possible and their potential in your community, it is important that you discuss them with your family or household. Develop a disaster plan together. PREPARE Finding out what can happen is the first step. Once you have determined the events possible and their potential in your community, it is important that you discuss them with your family or household. Develop a disaster plan together. 1. Create an emergency communications plan. Choose an out-of-town contact your family or household will call or e-mail to check on each other should a disaster occur. Your selected contact should live far enough away that they would be unlikely to be directly affected by the same event, and they should know they are the chosen contact. Make sure every household member has that contact's, and each other's, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers (home, work, pager and cell). Leave these contact numbers at your children's schools, if you have children, and at your workplace. 2. Establish a meeting place. Having a predetermined meeting place away from your home will save time and minimize confusion should your home be affected or the area evacuated. You may even want to make arrangements to stay with a family member or friend in case of an emergency. Be sure to include any pets in these plans, since pets are not permitted in shelters and some hotels will not accept them. ...continued continued...
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