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A new year brings new opportunities, and there’s no better resolution than keeping yourself, your loved ones, and your community safe. This year, let’s make preparedness part of our everyday lives.
📝 Simple Preparedness Resolutions:
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Make or update your emergency plan – Include communication methods, meeting places, and contacts.
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Build or refresh your emergency kit – Stock food, water, medications, flashlights, batteries, and important documents.
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Stay informed – Sign up for local alerts and keep up with trusted news and weather sources.
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Prepare your home – Check safety equipment, heating systems, and emergency supplies.
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Help your community – Share safety tips and check in on neighbors, especially during severe weather.
Preparedness is more than a resolution; it’s a habit that protects the people and places we care about most.
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Winter storms create a higher risk of car accidents, hypothermia, frostbite, carbon monoxide poisoning and heart attacks from overexertion - know the risks.
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Frostbite & Hypothermia
Limit your time outside and dress in loose, warm layers to avoid frostbite and hypothermia.
❄️ Frostbite cause loss of feeling and color around the face, fingers and toes.
❄️ Signs: Numbness, white or grayish-yellow skin, firm or waxy skin.
❄️ Actions: Go to a warm room. Soak in warm water (NOT hot). Use body heat to warm (NOT a fireplace, heating pad or other artificial heat source). Do NOT massage, rub or put pressure on areas with frostbite; you could further damage the tissue.
❄️❄️❄️ Hypothermia is an unusually low body temperature. A temperature below 95 degrees is an emergency.
❄️❄️❄️ Signs: Shivering, exhaustion, confusion, fumbling hands, memory loss, slurred speech or drowsiness.
❄️❄️❄️ Actions: Go to a warm room. Remove wet clothing and warm the center of the body first with dry layers of blankets or clothing.
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Here’s to a safe, healthy, and prepared New Year! |
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