If a major disaster was to strike...
What can you do to protect your family or help your neighbor?
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Everyone including local residents, parents, seniors, neighborhood leaders, volunteers, and
members of community and civic organizations
WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?
• Learn what steps you and your family can take to prepare for a natural or man-made disaster
• Discuss and plan what your neighbors and community leaders can do to get ready
• Find out about emergency shelters in your neighborhood and evacuation routes out of the city
WHAT SHOULD YOU EXPECT?
Using a disaster scenario, test your family plan, learn what to include in your Go Kit, and discuss
how you and your neighbors could work together to ensure the safety of your neighborhood.
WHAT CAN YOU DO RIGHT NOW?
· REGISTER for an exercise near you:
Online at www.dccommunitypreparedness.org
On the phone by calling 202-338-7153 x 212
· Sign up for emergency text alerts and work on your emergency plan at:
http://72hours.dc.gov
UPCOMING EXERCISES
Tuesday, November 25
5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Cleveland Park Library
3310 Connecticut Ave., NW
Thursday, November 6
5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Martin Luther King Library
901 G Street, NW, Room 810
Saturday, November 1
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Columbia Heights Rec. Center
1480 Girard Street, NW
REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED
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