Emergency Preparedness

An emergency can occur quickly and without warning. The most important thing you can do to keep yourself and your family safe from an emergency is to prepare, stay calm, and follow instructions from emergency personnel.

Because we are unable to predict when or if an emergency will occur, we need to be prepared as individuals and as a community for whatever the future may bring.

Related Links

• American Red Cross Disaster Services
  The American Red Cross helps keep people safe every day as well as in an emergency thanks to caring people who support our work in the community. Please support your local Red Cross.

• American Red Cross Together We Prepare Program
  American Red Cross : Disaster can strike quickly and without warning : Make a plan

• Clackamas County Emergency Management
  Every person who lives or works in Clackamas County shares responsibility for minimizing the impact of disaster on our community. The Office of Emergency Management can help show you how.

• FEMA's Are You Ready? An In-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness
  Are You Ready? An In-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness (IS-22) is FEMA’s most comprehensive source on individual, family, and community preparedness. The guide has been revised, updated, and enhanced in August 2004 to provide the public with the most current and up-to-date disaster preparedness information available.

• PandemicFlu.gov
  PandemicFlu.gov provides comprehensive government-wide information on pandemic influenza and avian influenza for the general public, health and emergency preparedness professionals, policy makers, government and business leaders, school systems, and local communities.

• State of Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) Public Health Emergency Preparedness Program
  The Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) Public Health Emergency Preparedness Program (PHEP ) was created in 2001. The purpose of the program is to improve public health preparedness capacity by ensuring coordination among tribes, local, state, and federal agencies, including health care partners before, during, and after public health events.

• State of Oregon Office of Emergency Management
  The purpose of the Office of Emergency Management is to execute the Governor's responsibilities to maintain an emergency services system as prescribed in ORS 401 by planning, preparing and providing for the prevention, mitigation and management of emergencies or disasters that present a threat to the lives and property of citizens of and visitors to the State of Oregon.

• The Department of Homeland Security's Ready.gov
  Ready.gov - Prepare. Plan. Stay Informed. Ready America, Educating and empowering Americans to prepare for emergencies including natural disasters and potential terrorist attacks.

• Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue
  Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue provides fire protection and emergency medical services to approximately 418,000 citizens in one of the fastest growing regions in Oregon. Our 210 square mile service area includes nine cities and unincorporated portions of Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington County.

• Washington County Department of Health and Human Services
  Our health programs are designed to provide the information, motivation, and means necessary for individuals and community groups to practice health-enhancing behaviors.

• Washington County Office of Consolidated Management
  The Office of Consolidated Emergency Management for Washington County is committed to the development and maintenance of a county-wide, integrated system to prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate against disasters. OCEM comprises Beaverton, Tigard, Hillsboro, Washington County, and Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue.

• World Health Organization Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response (EPR)
  The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health. It was established on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.