Supporting Your Community with Wildfire Relief

• Have several ways to receive alerts. Download the FEMA app and receive real-time alerts from the National Weather Service. Sign up for community alerts in your area and be aware of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA), which requires no-sign up.
• Pay attention to air quality alerts.

• You may have to leave your home quickly to stay safe. Know where you will go, how you will get there, and where you will stay.
• Have different escape routes from your home and community. Practice these routes so everyone in your household is familiar with them.
• Be sure to understand how your community will respond to a wildfire.

• Have a backup battery or a way to charge your cell phone.
• Have a battery-powered radio.
• Plan to monitor weather conditions and fires near you.

Gather food, water, and medicine. Assume that stores and pharmacies might be closed. Organize supplies into a Go-Kit and a Stay-at-Home-Kit.

• Have a supply of needed medications in a child-proof container, and other medical supplies or equipment.
• If available, store N95 masks to protect your family from smoke inhalation.
• Keep personal, financial, and medical records safe and easy to access (hard copies or securely backed up digital records). Talk to your doctor and consider keeping a list of your medications and dosages on a small card to carry with you.
• Utilities may be offline. Be ready to live without power, gas and water. Plan for your electrical needs with backup power for cell phones and any medical equipment.

Wildfire Safety Checklist – English

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• Keep track of the weather, fires near you, and listen to instructions from local authorities.
• Be ready to leave quickly with your Go-Kit.
• You might not get an official notice to evacuate.
• Be ready to leave if local authorities advise, or if you feel you are in danger.
• If trapped, call 9-1-1 and give your location, but be aware that emergency response could be delayed or impossible. Turn on lights to help rescuers find you.

• Wait for officials to say it is safe before going back home.
• Avoid hot ash, charred trees, smoldering debris, and live embers. The ground may contain heat pockets that can burn you or spark another fire.
• Avoid damaged or fallen power lines, poles, and downed wires. They can electrocute you.
• Watch for pits in the ground filled with ash. They may have hot embers underneath that could burn you. Mark them for safety, and warn your family and neighbors to keep clear of the pits.

• Follow public health rules and wear safety equipment.
• Avoid direct contact with ash.
• Protect yourself against ash when you clean up. Wear gloves, long-sleeved shirts, long pants, shoes and socks to protect your skin. Wear goggles to protect your eyes. Limit how much ash you breathe in by wearing an N95 respirator.
• Wash off ash that gets on your skin or in your eyes or mouth as soon as you can.
• Children, pregnant women, and people with asthma, heart or lung conditions should not breathe in dust from ash.