Emergency Preparedness Fact Sheets

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Customize Materials. You will need to customize materials with information about your agency or location, and real-time details about the emergency situation.

Work with your PIO. Always work with your assigned public information staff on communication issues.

Not required. Use of these materials is not required. They were developed as resources to help in public health emergency planning and response. Always consult your agency's emergency plans and policies, and follow appropriate Incident Command System procedures.

Questions? We will continue to add resources to this site as they are developed. Please direct questions regarding this site or emergency communication resources to DOH.Information@doh.wa.gov.

Links to Other Sites

Emergency Publications
Much of the information presented in these fact sheets can be found in our Emergency Resource Guide or the Prepare: home emergency guide. You can find instructions for downloading these guides or ordering print copies on our emergency publications page.

Fact Sheets A to Z

All non-English fact sheets on this page are in PDF format. All are one to two pages in length. English fact sheets can be printed from their webpages by using the Print function on the upper right side of the screen.

9-1-1 emergency calls

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Anthrax

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Bomb threats

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Botulism

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Brucellosis

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Chemical agents

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Children (how to help them after a disaster)

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Carbon monoxide poisoning

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Cold weather

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Contact list (out-of-area telephone numbers)

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Cover your cough

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Deaf and hard of hearing (preparedness tips)

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Earthquakes

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Ebola

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E. coli

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Enterovirus N68

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Floods

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Floods (how to clean your basement after a flood)

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Fires in the home

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Generators (how to use them safely)

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Germs (how to avoid spreading them)

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Glanders

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Home preparedness for emergencies

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Hot weather precautions

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Hypothermia

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Landslides and mud flows

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Medical needs (preparedness tips)

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Medicine (how to get it during a public health emergency)

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Mobility disabilities (preparedness tips)

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Pandemic flu

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Also see our Pandemic Flu webpages

Pets (how to care for them in an emergency)

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Poisoning

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Power outages

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Psychological and emotional needs resulting from disaster

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Pneumonic plague

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Radiation

Radiation fact sheets from the the Office of Radiation Protection

Radioactive materials

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Sewage spills (how to clean up after)

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Shelter-in-place

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Smallpox

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Smartphone use in an emergency

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Supplies you will need in an emergency

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Terrorism

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Tsunamis

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Tularemia

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Utilities (how to shut them off)

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Vehicles (prepare yours for an emergency)

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Viral hemorrhagic fevers

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Visual disabilities (preparedness tips)

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Volcanoes

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Volunteering - WAserv (Washington State Emergency Register of Volunteers)

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Water (how to purify for drinking)

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Water sources in an emergency

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Water (Treating for drinking during emergencies)

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Water (Color, taste and odor problems in drinking water)

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Water heaters (how to secure them)

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Wildfires

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Windstorms

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