FEMA, the federal agency charged with helping communities nationwide prepare, respond, and recover from natural and manmade disasters, recently re-launched its Ready.gov website.
Craig Fugate, administrator of FEMA describes the changes:
The new website provides valuable information on disaster planning. Learn what to do before, during, and after an emergency, get guidelines for making a disaster plan, and learn how to build your own disaster kits. It also has information on preparing as a community and as a business. It even has games for kids!
The site can be accessed via your computer, tablet or mobile device. (There’s even a mobile version of the website at http://m.fema.gov.)
In addition, FEMA also recently released an app for Apple or Android Smartphones. The app provides preparedness information for different types of disasters and even a map with FEMA Disaster Recovery Center locations. You won’t want to rely on this app in the middle of a disaster (when communications may be down), but it can be a useful preparation tool.
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