“Emergency preparedness is a prevention measure. Focusing in your and your loved ones’s emergency readiness will stop danger, stress, property injury and plenty of different hardships that comply with pure disasters and huge scale emergencies.” mentioned Judith Wright, Household Emergency Response Program Analyst with Fleet and Household Help Program for CNIC. “Throughout Nationwide Preparedness Month, the Navy and different federal organizations are providing quite a few alternatives to discover ways to improve your loved ones’s emergency readiness. We hope our Sailors and their spouses reap the benefits of the out there assets. Nobody can stop a catastrophe however you could be ready!”
Every week in September will give attention to totally different preparedness themes: Make a Plan; Educate Youth about Preparedness; Defend Your Household & Your Property; and Tapping into Your Navy Response Help. Fleet and Household Help Program will present useful details about these matters throughout their on-line webinars, that are open to Sailors, personnel and members of the family without charge at https://ffsp.zeiders.refineddata.com. Webinar schedule:
- Sept. 7, 1300 EST Be Ready: Make a plan/ Construct a Equipment
- Sept. 28, 1300 EST Monetary Preparedness for Disasters
Sailors, Navy personnel and their members of the family can prepared themselves for disasters and sudden emergency occasions by:
- Creating an emergency equipment with at the very least three days’ value of meals, water, important provides
- Growing and training a household emergency plan with the entire household, together with youngsters
- Preserving your loved ones’s data up to date in Navy Household Accountability and Evaluation System (NFAAS), https://navyfamily.navy.mil
- Including the telephone quantity on your native Fleet and Household Help Middle to your telephone now. Throughout a disaster, they’re your finest useful resource for Navy help and assist.
- Familiarizing your self with Emergency Household Help Middle (EFAC) providers. Installations will arise EFACs following vital emergencies to supply Navy households a one-stop-shop useful resource and data hub with the newest data, authorized assist, counseling assets, monetary assist and extra.
- Benefiting from different checklists and steerage out there on the Federal Emergency Administration Company catastrophe preparedness web site, www.Prepared.gov
Commander, Navy Installations Command oversees 48,000 workers situated throughout 70 Navy shore installations in 10 areas around the globe and is charged with sustaining the Fleet, enabling the fighter and supporting the household. For extra information from CNIC, go to www.cnic.navy.mil or comply with the command’s Fb, Twitter and Instagram.
