Resources

• American Red Cross
• Animal Safety (American Red Cross)
• Are You Ready? A Guide to Citizen Preparedness (Federal Emergency Management Agency) - Links to PDF File
• Biodefense Preparedness: Record of Accomplishment (Dept. of Health and Human Services)
• Blackouts: Safety Information for Short-Term Power Outages or "Rolling Blackouts" (American Red Cross)
• Brain Injuries and Mass Trauma Events (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control)
• Chemical Emergency (Federal Emergency Management Agency) - Links to PDF File
• Chemicals in Your Community (Environmental Protection Agency)
• Concerned Citizens Resources (Environmental Protection Agency)
• Disaster Preparedness for People with Disabilities (American Red Cross)
• Disaster Preparedness for Seniors by Seniors (American Red Cross)
• Disasters and Emergency Preparedness (National Institutes of Health)
• Disasters and Emergency Preparedness (Medline Plus)
• Earthquakes (National Center for Environmental Health)
• Emergency Preparedness: What Consumers Need to Know to Prepare for an Emergency (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists) - About your medicines
• EPCRA (Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act) Overview (Environmental Protection Agency)
• Exposure Pathways of Hazardous Substances (Environmental Protection Agency)
• Eye Safety for Emergency Response and Disaster Recovery (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
• FEMA For Kids (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• Fire (American Red Cross)
• Floods (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Food and Water in an Emergency (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• Giving Birth "In Place": Emergency Preparedness for Childbirth (American College of Nurse-Midwives)
• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters (National Institute of Mental Health)
• Helping Children Cope with Crisis: A Guide for African American Parents (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
• Hurricanes (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Injuries and Mass Trauma Events (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control)
• Landslides and Mudflows (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• Locating Safe Drinking Water [After a Disaster] (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• Mass Trauma Preparedness and Response (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control)
• Natural Disaster Recovery: Fungi (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
• New Research Outlines Public Health Consequences of World Trade Center Disaster (National Institutes of Health)
• Nuclear Power Plant Emergency (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• Public Health Issues Related to Summertime Blackouts (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Ready.Gov (Dept. of Homeland Security)
• Recognizing (Hazardous Materials) Releases (Environmental Protection Agency)
• Respirator (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
• Response & Recovery (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• Severe Weather Watches And Warnings Definitions (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• Sheltering in Place during a Radiation Emergency (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• State Agencies (Dept. of Homeland Security)
• Staying Warm in an Unheated House: Coping with a Power Outage in Winter (National Ag Safety Database)
• Strategic National Stockpile (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Terrorism: Preparing for the Unexpected (American Red Cross)
• Thunderstorms and Lightening (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• Tornado Safety Tips (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• Tox Town (National Library of Medicine) - Requires Flash Player (National Library Medicine)
• Tsunami (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• Volcano (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• Warning Signs of a Hazardous Substance Release (Environmental Protection Agency)
• What You Need to Know When the Power Goes Out Unexpectedly (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Wildfires: Health Threat from Wildfire Smoke (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Wildland Fires (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• Winter Preparedness Safety Tips (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• Winter Storm (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• Your Family Disaster Plan (Federal Emergency Management Agency)