Natural disasters can strike at any time. Earthquakes, floods, and fires can spring up quickly and endanger homes and businesses.<\/p>\n
1. Visit\u00a0PreparedBC.<\/a>\u00a0This is BC’s one-stop shop for disaster readiness information.<\/p>\n 2. Know the risks. Find out if your community is at risk for earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, wildfires, or major storms.<\/p>\n 3. Prepare your home. Make a\u00a0household plan<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 for example, the\u00a0PreparedBC: Household Preparedness Guide<\/a>\u00a0(16-page PDF) and the\u00a0PreparedBC: Household Emergency Plan<\/a>\u00a0(11-page PDF).<\/p>\n 4. Prepare your office. You could be at work when disaster strikes.<\/p>\n 5. Build an Emergency Kit. Make\u00a0\u00a0emergency kits\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0for your home, office, and vehicle. Include enough food, water, and supplies for a minimum of 72 hours.<\/p>\n 6. Meet Your Neighbours.\u00a0We\u2019re in it together\u00a0when disaster strikes. The most immediate help will come from those nearby. Connect with them now and, working together, prepare a plan using\u00a0In it Together: Neighbourhood Preparedness Guide<\/a>\u00a0(16-page PDF). There\u2019s also a specific\u00a0Guide for Apartments, Condos and Townhomes<\/a>.<\/p>\n 7. Stay Informed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Every municipality has a website with information and emergency plans for your community. For example, Vancouver has\u00a025 disaster support hubs<\/a>.<\/p>\n 8. Find out how your municipality sends alerts and instructions during an emergency \u2013 whether by social media, sirens, radio or television. Bookmark these provincial channels:<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n For information, visit your local municipality website and search for Emergency Plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Natural disasters can strike at any time. Earthquakes, floods, and fires can spring up quickly and endanger homes and businesses. Steps for disaster planning 1. Visit\u00a0PreparedBC.\u00a0This is BC’s one-stop shop … [read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[389,29,7,376,82,8,9,25],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-advice","tag-disaster-planning","tag-heritage-woods","tag-monet-tyler","tag-monet-tyler-real-estate","tag-port-moody","tag-real-estate","tag-royal-lepage","tag-royal-lepage-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n