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Disaster Communications
When developing your disaster communications plan. There are three things you need to know.
- Who do you need to communicate with?
- Why do you need to communicate with them?
- How will you communicate?
A natural or man-made disaster has impacted your community, you and your family are separated.
Now is the time you need accurate information.
You do not have the luxury of wasting time while pondering your next move.
Are you sure your family, friends and loved ones are safe?
Where are they?
What are they doing?
Does anyone need immediate help?
Who is with them?
Is the disaster still unfolding?
Are you now in the immediate aftermath?
Are there any secondary or alternate events that have been caused by the disaster?
How will you be able to communicate in an emergency situation?
Will you be able to talk with anyone other than those people around you?
Is shouting distance the limit of your reach?
There are three things you need to know to create your Disaster Communications plan.
Who do you need to communicate with?
Why do you need to contact them?
How will you contact them?
This article will cover concepts of personal emergency communications before, during and after an emergency.
This is part one of a special disaster communications report.
Who is communicating?
and
Why?
Who do you need to communicate with?
Who do you need to contact?
Who needs to contact you?
Your wife, husband, partner, significant other?
Do you have children?
Are they in school, with friends, at the movies?
Are your children needing to contact you?
Are you trying to contact your child?
Is there an Elderly next-door neighbor or family member that might need help?
Parents?
Should you call your business or employees?
How about your out of town emergency contact?
Keep in mind; A woman responsible for her husband and two children will have different communication needs than a college student living by himself in a dormitory.
Have you created a Point of Contact list?
What is your communications plan?
Do you have a plan?
Why do you need to communicate?
Your mind is racing with the worst possible scenarios imaginable.
Are you safe? Are they safe?
What’s your location?
Are you in transit?
Are they in transit?
Where to, where from, when are they going to get there?
Insert your reason here __________.
In the following reports, you will learn the tactics, techniques, and procedures necessary to communicate clearly and safely with your family, loved ones and emergency services personnel.
And you will learn the variety of tools that will enable you to communicate clearly with your family, loved ones and emergency personnel.
Till next time
“Be Safe”