Emergency Evacuation
Preparedness:
Taking Responsibility For Your Safety, A Guide For People with
Disabilities
and Other Activity Limitations -
(2002) last accessed 01/29/08
Helps
people with disabilities prepare for large or small-scale
emergencies. The guide’s focus helps people with disabilities
take
responsibility for their own safety during emergencies and evacuations
and work
effectively with first responders.
Please freely reprint any of the written text attached in
your web
sites, listservs, and mailing lists
Personal
Emergency
Preparedness: Who Are Your People?
2006,
last
accessed 02/4/08
DISASTER!
If you have a disability, the forces of nature can be meaner to you
than anyone
else. But you can fight back. Be prepared, Mainstream magazine.
November 1994. last accessed
01/30/08
Disaster Preparedness
Tips for
PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, [English and Spanish]
by June
Kailes - Although these
"Tip Sheets" focus on earthquake safety, they are useful for
all types of disaster preparedness: power outages, fires, floods,
hurricanes,
nuclear power plant accidents, tornados, tsunamis, volcanoes, winter
storms and
very cold or very hot weather. last accessed 01/30/08
Emergency
Procedures for Employees with Disabilities in Office Occupancies, PDF (1.3 MB) , Text (59 KB) provide
information
for facilities managers and may be useful for those individuals who
might need
special assistance as to the notification of an emergency situation
and/or in
the evacuation of a building. - last
accessed 01/17/08
Preparedness
Information for Seniors and People with Disabilities, American Red Cross, last accessed 01/17/08
Preparing for
Disaster
for People with Disabilities and other Special Needs, Available in Spanish
Formats: PDF,
TXT,
last accessed 01/17/08
Fire
Risks Series: Fire Risks for Older Adults, FEMA & US Fire
Administration, 1999. PDF Format,
last accessed 01/30/08
Impact of 2003 Wildfires on People with
Disabilities,
last accessed 01/30/08
NFPA's
Center for High Risk Outreach, last accessed 01/30/08
Putting Down Roots in
Earthquake Country,
10/85 English and Spanish, last
accessed 01/17/08 - includes:
Earthquake Information from U.S. Geological
Survey
Pasadena Office , last accessed
01/30/08, includes
minute by minute current information,
including:
Living and Lasting on Shaky
Ground: An Earthquake
Preparedness Guide for People with 
Disabilities, 1996, 147
pages.
Format PDF: A,
B, C,
D, E,
F
Provides
practical and disability-specific information used as a preparation
tool for
individuals with disabilities, their friends, families and service
providers.
Guide also serves as a training tool kit for disability-related
organizations
who offer workshops on earthquake preparedness for people with
disabilities.
Topics includes:
understanding why
preparation is important, creating practical plans, identifying
resources,
developing strategies and putting plans into practice.
Disabled
People and Disaster Planning
a group of people primarily from Los Angeles County who met during 1996
and
1997 and formulated recommendations to reduce problems with
accessibility that
many people with disabilities experienced after the Northridge
Earthquake of
1994. This group included individuals with disabilities and individuals
from
the disaster planning and response professions. last
accessed 01/17/08
Disaster
Preparedness For Persons With Disabilities Improving California's
Response:
A Report
by The California Department of Rehabilitation, April 1997. last
accessed
01/17/08
Emergency
Preparedness and Emergency Communication Access: Lessons Learned Since
9/11 and
Recommendations the work of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Consumer
Advocacy Network (DHHCAN), The report represents
an extensive summary of personal experiences by individuals who are
deaf and
hard of hearing on the fateful day of September 11, 2001 and thereafter
under
different circumstances. last accessed 01/30/08
September
11, 2001: A Day to Remember,
New Mobility, 11/0, last accessed
01/17/08
Unsafe
Refuge, Why did so many wheelchair users die on Sept. 11? New Mobility, 12/01, last accessed 01/17/08
Why
We Don't Prepare Floods, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Wildfires,
Earthquakes
..., by AMANDA RIPLEY/ BOULDER, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2006, Time Magazine
–An
excellent and thought provoking article. Word Format
Access
Issues: not captioned or audio
described, text on slides is not narrated, only available in English
Access
Issues: text only, not
accessible to screen readers
Chemical
Sensitivities and Allergies, last accessed 01/17/08
HEPA (High Efficiency
Particulate Air
Filtration) Filter Fans
Once you have sealed a room
with plastic sheeting and
duct tape you may have created a better barrier between you and any
contaminants that may be outside. However, no seal is perfect and some
leakage
is likely. In addition to which, you may find yourself in a space that
is
already contaminated to some degree.
Consider a portable air
purifier, with a HEPA filter, to
help remove contaminants from the room where you are sheltering. These
highly
efficient filters have small sieves that can capture very tiny
particles,
including some biological agents. Once trapped within a HEPA filter
contaminants cannot get into your body and make you sick. While these
filters
are excellent at filtering dander, dust, molds, smoke, biological
agents and
other contaminants, they will not stop chemical gases.
Some people, particularly
those with severe allergies and
asthma, use HEPA filters in masks, portable air purifiers as well as in
larger
home or industrial models to continuously filter the air.
Service Animal Emergency Preparedness, last
accessed 01/17/08
Emergency Health
Information guides
you through developing your emergency health information. You should
keep
copies of this information in your wallet (behind driver's license or
official
identification card) and emergency kits. It tells rescuers important
information about you if they find you unconscious, or unable to
provide
information. It contains information about your medications, equipment,
allergies, communication difficulties, preferred treatment and medical
providers, and important contact people. Formats: PDF,
Microsoft Word.
Are You Ready Guide
FEMA Guide,
American
Red
Cross Preparedness Publications, last accessed 01/17/08
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