September is Emergency Preparedness Month
Press Release
September 4, 2012
Contact: Mary Cook
603-418-6404
The Seacoast Public Health Region Announces Participation in September’s National Preparedness Month (NPM)
Pledge to Prepare: Awareness to Action
(Exeter, New Hampshire) – The Seacoast Public Health Region has committed to participate in National Preparedness Month throughout the month of September in order to increase emergency preparedness throughout the seacoast region of New Hampshire. National Preparedness Month is a nationwide, month-long effort encouraging households, businesses, and communities to prepare and plan for all types of emergencies.
Being prepared for an emergency makes you and your family more self-reliant before, during, and after an emergency. A simple way to start preparing is to plan for three situations:
1. Staying in your home for at least three days without access to electricity, water, stores, and other local services.
2. Leaving your home quickly to go to a safer place.
3. Connecting with friends and family when communications systems are down or overloaded.
Preparedness is a shared responsibility; it takes a whole community. This year’s National Preparedness Month focuses on turning awareness into action by encouraging all individuals and communities to make an emergency preparedness plan. Learn how to prepare at ReadyNH, New Hampshire’s emergency preparedness website, at www.nh.gov/ReadyNH.
Over the next few months, the Seacoast Public Health Region and the Greater Exeter Citizen Corps will be facilitating presentations at senior centers and libraries. The class will assist participants in preparing for emergencies by focusing on Go Kit contents, when to shelter in place, how to plan for your pets, and how to find out where shelters in your region are located. Go to www.seacoastphr.org for complete listings of where/when the presentations are being held.
THE SEACOAST PUBLIC HEALTH REGION serves the seacoast area of New Hampshire to prepare for, respond to and recover from all public health emergencies in the region and to develop and maintain a trained corps of medical and non-medical community volunteers.