A disaster is an event that could hurt people and cause damages. For example, during a flood, water could damage a house's basement. During an earthquake, a falling object could hurt someone. Floods and earthquakes are therefore disasters.

What Is an Emergency Plan?

An emergency plan is a document describing how to respond to an emergency. By reading it, everyone will know how to respond to a disaster.

For example, who will warn all students if a flood occur at your school? Who will clean up the place? What could the students do? An emergency plan is used to answer all these questions BEFORE a disaster.

If response actions are planned for every disaster, no one will be taken aback. Does your municipality have an emergency plan? Ask your parents to contact municipal authorities to know if there is one in force.

What Can I Do?

You can also make some Civil Protection preparations: prepare an emergency kit and learn how to react in case of a tornado, an earthquake or an ice storm.

Is your emergency kit ready? Ask your parents for help.

Do you know which disasters can occur in your region? Does your municipality have an emergency plan? Ask your teacher, municipal authorities or your parents if there is one in effect.

Then, learn what to do in the event of a disaster. One way to do so is to browse this Web site! You will find plenty of advice to help you. The libraries of your school and municipality undoubtedly have books on disasters.

Last update: 2005-04-19 15:56