Several types of disasters may force you to be evacuated from your home into a temporary shelter. If you are told to evacuate, take the following steps.
- If a temporary shelter is provided by a disaster relief agency or church organization, take your family with your 72 hour kits (if available) to the shelter.
- If no temporary shelter is provided, and your house is uninhabitable:
- if you have your 72 hour kit, set up the tent from your 72 hour kit at a safe location in your yard, or, if there is no safe location in your yard, set up your tent at the nearest safe location
- if you don’t have your 72 hour kit, look for a safe shelter in your car (if not in the garage), travel trailer, etc; if you have no safe shelter, rely on a neighbor you trust for shelter, if available
- Your emergency tent should be light and small enough to fit comfortably on your emergency backpack, yet roomy enough to house all the members of your household, plus the gear in your 72 hour kits. Additional tents may be used if necessary. A good style of tent to use in an emergency is a dome tent with fiberglass poles; it can be pitched anywhere, including on flooring or concrete.
- It is advisable to have an emergency drill with your family, to practice setting up the tent in the dark with a flashlight, and to experience a family outing in your emergency tent, minus the disaster. By doing this, your family will be better prepared for a real disaster.
Evacuation: If you are instructed to evacuate by emergency personnel, or over an EBS radio or TV broadcast, take the steps given in the following website.
https://www.utah.gov/beready/family/evacuation.html
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