Are You. Ready? Citizen s Guide to Emergency Preparedness *NEW. Carroll County, Maryland AND UPDATED!

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1 Ae You Ready? Citizen s Guide to Emegency Pepaedness *NEW Caoll County, Mayland AND UPDATED! 2017

2 Family Emegency Plan Make sue you family has a plan in case of an emegency. Befoe an emegency happens, sit down togethe and decide how you will get in contact with each othe, whee you will go and what you will do in an emegency. Keep a copy of this plan in you emegency supply kit o anothe safe place whee you can access it in the event of a disaste. Out-of-Town Contact Name: Neighbohood Meeting Place: Regional Meeting Place: Evacuation Location: Telephone Numbe: Telephone Numbe: Telephone Numbe: Telephone Numbe: Fill out the following infomation fo each family membe and keep it up to date. Name: Date of Bith: Social Secuity Numbe: Impotant Medical Infomation: Name: Date of Bith: Name: Date of Bith: Name: Date of Bith: Name: Date of Bith: Name: Date of Bith: Social Secuity Numbe: Impotant Medical Infomation: Social Secuity Numbe: Impotant Medical Infomation: Social Secuity Numbe: Impotant Medical Infomation: Social Secuity Numbe: Impotant Medical Infomation: Social Secuity Numbe: Impotant Medical Infomation: Wite down whee you family spends the most time: wok, school and othe places you fequent. Schools, daycae povides, wokplaces and apatment buildings should all have site-specific emegency plans that you and you family need to know about. Wok Location One Addess: Phone Numbe: Evacuation Location: Wok Location Two Addess: Phone Numbe: Evacuation Location: Wok Location Thee Addess: Phone Numbe: Evacuation Location: Othe place you fequent Addess: Phone Numbe: Evacuation Location: School Location One Addess: Phone Numbe: Evacuation Location: School Location Two Addess: Phone Numbe: Evacuation Location: School Location Thee Addess: Phone Numbe: Evacuation Location: Othe place you fequent Addess: Phone Numbe: Evacuation Location: Impotant Infomation Name Telephone Numbe Policy Numbe Docto(s): Othe: Phamacist: Medical Insuance: Homeownes/Rental Insuance: Veteinaian/Kennel (fo pets): Dial 911 fo Emegencies

3 Dea Citizens, We all know that the wold we live in continues to change. Since Septembe 11, 2001 we have all become moe awae of the danges among us, moe sensitive to the possibility of teoism, and moe cognizant of the need to plan fo disastes, both natual and man- made. Disaste pepaedness is necessay, and it woks. Caoll County Emegency Management eviews and evises the county s plans fo emegency esponse and ecovey, and woks closely with membes of the emegency esponse community to establish sound disaste esponse plans. We povide infomation to the public about how to pepae fo an emegency, as well as about how to get help and infomation duing emegencies. We also continue to wok closely on planning initiatives with the Depatment of Homeland Secuity and the Mayland Emegency Management Agency. Clealy, we all have a esponsibility fo the safety of ou community, neighbos and families. To potect ouselves and ou families duing a disaste, we must each have a plan that will educe the impact of emegencies that ae unexpected as well as those with waning. We uge you to take the oppotunity to eview you pepaations and ceate a plan that will seve you family s needs. Fo additional infomation on how to pepae a family emegency plan please efe to Should you desie moe infomation on disaste pepaation o wish to voluntee to make you community bette pepaed, please contact the Depatment of Public Safety, Emegency Management at Sinceely, The Boad of County Commissiones

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5 Caoll County, Mayland Citizen s Guide to Emegency Pepaedness A disaste can stike quickly and without waning. If you and you family ae affected by a disaste, you will need to be able to adapt to the conditions esulting fom the emegency. This guide has been designed to help you, and you family, stay safe duing an emegency. Please familiaize youself with the following infomation befoe any type of natual o man-made disaste occus. Doing so will allow you to take necessay actions to maintain you health and pesonal safety. Table of Contents Pepaing fo an Emegency. 1 Get a Kit.. 1 Develop a Family Communications Plan.. 4 Ceate a Plan to Shelte-in-Place. 4 Ceate a Plan to Evacuate 5 Students in School. 5 Public Emegency Sheltes.. 6 What to Do When Electical Powe is Lost. 7 Be Infomed About What Might Happen Huicanes and Floods 8 Thundestoms and Tonadoes 9 Winte Stoms and Exteme Cold. 10 Heat Waves.. 12 Infectious Diseases 13 Fie. 15 Teoism and Hazadous Mateials. 17 Opioid Ovedose... 21

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7 Pepaing fo an Emegency Planning fo any emegency equies consideing the likely scenaios that could esult when things that you ely on daily such as electicity, wate, heat, ai conditioning, telephone sevice, and tanspotation ae tempoaily disupted o ae lost fo a consideable amount of time. Consequently, you should have food, wate, and othe essential goods to get you though the emegency, a plan fo how you and you loved ones will be able to stay in touch if you ae sepaated when a disaste occus, a plan fo what you will need to do to shelte-in-place and a plan fo evacuating you home. Many things may affect the plans you develop, including stoage space, any medical o special needs of membes of you family, the numbe of people in you household and the esouces that ae eadily available to you. It is impotant to meet with you family and take steps togethe to be eady befoe a disaste occus. By woking togethe and planning befoehand to addess potential poblems, getting though an emegency situation can be much easie and safe. Download the FREE Pepae Me Caoll smat phone app fo even moe emegency pepaedness esouces. Get a Kit page 1 Develop a Family Communications Plan page 4 Ceate a Plan to Shelte-in-Place page 4 Ceate a Plan to Evacuate page 5 Be Infomed about what might happen page 8 Get a Kit The following checklist includes some basic items that should be included in you Emegency Supplies Kit. You kit may include additional items, depending on the needs of you family. Don t foget to include items fo you pets. Keep these items in one easy-to-cay containe such as a plastic stoage bin, backpack, o duffel bag and stoe it in a convenient place. Conside two kits, one containing items that will help you stay in you home and weathe the emegency on you own and anothe smalle vesion that you can easily take with you should you need to evacuate you home. Remembe to change the stoed wate and otate the food supplies evey six months (place dates on the containes). Check the supplies and e-evaluate you needs evey yea. Consult you physician o phamacist about stoing medications, and maintain a cuent list of you family s pesciption needs. Wate, (1) gallon of wate pe peson pe day fo at least (3) days, fo dinking and sanitation o Avoid using containes that will beak, such as glass bottles. Food, at least a (3) day supply of non-peishable, shelf-stable food that equies no efigeation and little to no wate to pepae. Examples include: o Ready to eat canned meats, fuits and vegetables o Canned o boxed juices o Non-peishable pasteuized milk o Potein o fuit bas continued 1

8 o Died fuit o Nuts o Cackes o Peanut butte o Vitamins o Can opene (non-electic) o Dy ceeal o ganola o Condiments, like suga, salt and peppe o Fomula/food fo infants o Food fo special dietay needs Battey-poweed o hand cank adio and a NOAA Weathe Radio with tone alet o Exta batteies fo both Flashlight and exta batteies Fist aid kit o Non-latex gloves o Absobent compess dessings (5 x 9 inches) o Adhesive bandages (assoted sizes) o Adhesive cloth tape (10 yads x 1 inch) o Antibiotic ointment o Antiseptic wipe packets o Aspiin o non-aspiin pain elieve o Blanket (space blanket) o Beathing baie (with one-way valve) o Instant cold compess o Hydocotisone ointment o Scissos o Rolle bandage (3 inches wide) o Rolle bandage (4 inches wide) o Steile gauze pads (assoted sizes) o Oal themomete (non-mecuy/ non-glass) o Tiangula bandages o Tweezes o Fist aid instuction booklet Medical equipment & assistive devices o Glasses and/o contact lens supplies o Dentues o Pesciption medications o Heaing aids Whistle, to signal fo help, dust masks, plastic sheeting, duct tape, moist towelettes o hand sanitize, gabage bags and plastic ties fo pesonal sanitation, feminine hygiene supplies and othe pesonal hygiene items. Complete change of clothing, including but not limited to: o Long sleeved shit o Gloves o Long pants o Rain gea o Study shoes Sleeping bag o wam blanket fo each peson Household chloine bleach and medicine doppe o When diluted nine pats wate to one pat bleach o can be used as a disinfectant. O, in an emegency, o you can use it to teat wate by using 16 dops of o egula household liquid bleach pe gallon of wate. o Do not use scented, colo safe o bleaches with added cleanes. Local maps Cash o tavele s checks and change 2

9 Impotant family documents keep copies in a watepoof, potable containe o Insuance policies o Bank account ecods o Identification o List of qualified intepetes if you speak Ameican Sign Language Books, games, puzzles, othe quiet activities fo childen Tools & supplies o Exta batteies assoted sizes. Remembe to include batteies fo heaing aids and othe battey opeated medical o assistive devices. o Wench o Plastic wae, pape plates and napkins o Plies o Pape towels o Matches in a watepoof containe o Utility knife o Pape and pen/pencil o Fie extinguishe o Cell phone chage o Small shovel DON T FORGET! Items fo you pet afood and Wate (in addition to the wate listed above) abowls apet caie- Lage enough fo you pet to stand, tun aound and lie down aup-to-date vaccination/medical ecods, identification, license/abies tags apictue of you and you pet acleaning supplies: atash bags atowels/pape towels awaste disposal supplies ablankets/teats/toys apet fist aid book/kit amedications acolla/haness/ cat litte and pan You should also put togethe an Emegency Supplies Kit fo you vehicle. Items you may want to include: aflashlight and batteies atools fo mino epais ajumpe cables awok gloves awaning tiangles afist aid kit abottled wate anon-peishable food items aimpotant phone numbes amaps of aeas you tavel apape and pen/pencil ashovel arain gea aexta clothes and shoes ablanket acell phone chage fo vehicle aice scape o bush ataction mats/chains o cat litte/sand fo bette taction in ice/snow 3

10 Develop a Family Communications Plan You family may not be togethe when an emegency o disaste stikes, so plan fo how you will contact one anothe and eview what you will do in diffeent situations. Conside a plan whee each family membe calls, s o sends a text message to the same fiend o elative in the event of an emegency. It may be easie to make a long-distance phone call than to call acoss town, so conside using an outof-town contact instead of someone neaby. Be sue that each family membe knows the phone numbe o of the emegency contact and has the means (cell phone, pepaid cad, change) to make the phone call o send the o text message. Remembe that text messages may go though even when the phone system is oveloaded. You can find a eady to fill out sample Family Emegency Communications Plan at Ceate a Plan to Shelte-in-Place Thee may be situations, depending on you cicumstances and the natue of the disaste, when it s simply best to stay whee you ae and avoid any uncetainty outside by shelteing in place. The length of time you will need to shelte-in-place may be shot, such as duing a tonado waning, o long, such as duing a winte stom o a pandemic. Duing these times, you can utilize the supplies contained in you emegency supplies kit (page 1) to help you emain safe and as comfotable as possible in you home. Sometimes, a hazadous mateials accident o chemical elease may cause the immediate need fo esidents to shelte in place. Local emegency officials will boadcast the need to shelte-in-place though adio and TV boadcasts, social media outlets and othe emegency communications methods. In this case, take the following exta pecautions to educe the possibility of chemical vapos enteing you home: Close and lock all windows. Seal gaps unde dooways and windows with wet towels, duct tape, o simila thick tape. Seal any gaps aound window ai conditioning units, bathoom and kitchen exhaust fan gills, and stove and dye vents with tape and plastic sheeting, wax pape, o aluminum wap. Close all fieplace dampes. 4

11 Close as many doos as possible. Tun off all ventilation systems, including funaces, ai conditiones, vents, and fans. Close all dapes, cutains, and shades if local authoities wan of potential explosions. o Stay away fom windows to pevent injuy. It is impotant that you stay in shelte until local authoities say it is safe to leave. Listen to the adio, watch TV o monito the Intenet fo infomation and instuctions fom local authoities. Ceate a Plan to Evacuate Othe times, a dangeous situation may cause the need fo you to evacuate you home, wokplace o school. Evacuation may be equied because of fie, flooding, hazadous mateials incidents o othe accidents. In some cicumstances, local officials decide that the hazads facing the community ae seious and equie evacuations. In othes, evacuations ae advised o households decide to evacuate to avoid situations they believe ae potentially dangeous. When community evacuations become necessay local officials will povide infomation to the public though the media and othe emegency waning methods. The amount of time you have to leave you home, wokplace o school will depend on the hazad. Many disastes allow no time fo people to gathe even the most basic necessities, which is why planning ahead is essential. Plan how you will assemble you family and supplies and anticipate whee you will go fo diffeent situations. Choose seveal destinations in diffeent diections so you have options in an emegency and know the evacuation outes to get to those destinations. If an evacuation is called fo in you neighbohood, you will be given specific infomation though the Emegency Alet System, adio, television, and local officials. Govenment agencies and the Red Coss, among othes, will povide emegency shelte if necessay. Put you Family Communications Plan (page 4) into effect. Listen to a battey-opeated adio fo official infomation and instuctions. All family membes should wea clothing appopiate fo existing o foecasted conditions. Befoe leaving you home, lock all doos and windows. If thee is time, unplug appliances. Let you out-of-state contact know whee you ae going. Always follow specific evacuation outes. Plan ahead of time fo how you will evacuate family membes who may have special needs, such as those who have mobility poblems, those who ely on medical equipment, and those who may have any disability o condition that may make evacuation moe complicated. Also, plan fo the possibility that an evacuation may be necessay while you and you family membes ae in diffeent locations like duing the day when many people ae at wok o at school. Talk to you child s school about the emegency plans that ae in place. STUDENTS IN SCHOOL In the event of a local o national emegency, o odeed evacuation, paents should listen to local adio and television stations fo announcements about school closings, delays o modified openings. Paents can also access this infomation online at Paents may pick up thei childen fom school duing the day, but duing a cisis the safest place fo childen may be the school itself. Wait fo instuctions. Do not go to the school to pick up you childen this may jeopadize you safety and that of you child. Unless an evacuation of the school is odeed, students will be kept at school until they can be safely tanspoted home on nomal bus outes. Ensue you contact infomation on file at you child s school is up to date. 5

12 Public Emegency Sheltes When conditions waant, Caoll County Govenment may establish community-based emegency sheltes fo local esidents who may be equied to evacuate thei homes o wokplaces. Sheltes ae set up at locations whee esidents can seek efuge, as well as sleep and eat. The Caoll County Depatment of Social Sevices opeates sheltes with the assistance of the Ameican Red Coss, the Caoll County Health Depatment, and Caoll County Public Schools. Infomation about the locations of sheltes is issued via adio, television, social media (Facebook and Twitte), and by calling the county s 24-hou emegency infomation line at GET-EOC ( ). Individuals needing shelte should bing the following with them: a sleeping bag o bed oll a change of clothing bathing and sanitay supplies pesciptions and othe medical needs dentue and eye cae supplies any special dietay supplies o equiements Individuals who equie assistance with activities of daily living must have thei caegive accompany them and emain with them at the shelte. Note that with the exception of sevice animals, pets ae not pemitted in sheltes. What to Do fo Pets in Emegencies Emegency planning should involve all membes of the family, including pets. If you family must elocate to a shelte, you pet may not be allowed to stay in the shelte with you. Making aangements fo altenative pet cae befoe a disaste occus is impotant, and in a widespead disaste could save you pet s life. Locate a fiend o elative who is able to boad you animal, o a kennel that accepts pets duing emegencies. Pepae a disaste kit fo you pet utilizing the list povided in the Get A Kit section of this booklet (page 1). Take you pet s disaste kit with you if you and you pet need to leave you home. Fo moe infomation on emegency pepaedness fo all kinds of pets, including cats, dogs, bids, fish, eptiles and small mammals, as well as livestock, call The Humane Society of Caoll County (HSCC) at Don t Foget ID You pet should be weaing up-to-date identification at all times. This includes adding you cuent cell phone numbe to you pet s tag. It may also be a good idea to include the phone numbe of a fiend o elative outside you immediate aea - if you pet is lost, you ll want to povide a numbe on the tag that will be answeed even if you e out of you home. HSCC ecommends that you also have you pet micochipped in advance. This is a pemanent ID. If you pet becomes lost o is sepaated fom you, this may be the only way you can be eunited with you pet. When egisteing the micochip make sue you supply an emegency contact. 6

13 What to Do When Electical Powe is Lost Disuption of electical sevice can occu as a esult of many things, including lightning, high winds, ice and heavy snow, and equipment failue. Usually sevice is estoed in a shot peiod of time. Howeve, majo powe outages can happen fo extended peiods of time as well. Check to see if you neighbos have powe. The powe outage may only be affecting you home, o may be a blown fuse o a tipped cicuit. If you neighbos ae also without sevice, call you local powe company. If you must go outside to assess the situation, take a flashlight and watch fo downed powe lines that could still be enegized. If downed lines ae located, do not go nea them o touch anything that they may be in contact with. Repot downed powe lines immediately to you electical supplie (see inside of the back cove fo contact infomation). If you lose powe, use flashlights. Do not use candles o keosene lamps - they can ceate a safety hazad. Duing a powe outage, tun off all appliances, including you funace, ai conditione, and wate heate to avoid oveloading cicuits. Leave one lamp on so you will know when you sevice is estoed. Potable emegency geneatos can be used to povide limited electical powe duing an outage, but you must take cae to ensue that they do not pose a theat to you o you family. Neve fuel o un a potable geneato in the home o gaage, as gas-poweed geneatos pose a seious cabon monoxide theat. Always opeate accoding to the manufactue s instuctions. Fo additional infomation on the pope use of emegency geneatos, call you local powe company. To potect you food, keep efigeato and feeze doos closed as much as possible. Food can stay fozen fo 36 hous o moe in a feeze if you keep the doo closed. Conside feezing containes of wate ahead of time. The blocks of ice will help keep you food fozen longe. Fo moe infomation on keeping food safe duing a powe outage, visit Remembe: when in doubt thow it out. Wate systems with electic pumps, such as wells o cistens, will not opeate when the powe is out. Use altenate souces of wate until powe is estoed. Gas appliances may not wok if the electicity is off because the equipment may equie electicity fo ignition o valve opeation. Make povisions fo special needs family membes such as the eldely, disabled, medically affected, o infants. If you o a membe of you family is dependent on electic-poweed medical equipment (espiato, ventilato, oxygen equipment, etc.) you will need to seek altenate aangements in the event of an outage. You should make appopiate aangements such as having a potable geneato, battey backup and a contingency plan that includes identifying places whee to go fo shelte o cae in exteme emegencies. Check with you electicity povide fo infomation on how to pepae go to o to find out moe. 7

14 Be Infomed About What Might Happen Hazad Infomation In ode to be best pepaed fo many kinds of emegencies, you should lean about what kinds of hazadous events ae most likely to happen whee you live. Both natual and man-made disastes can affect Caoll County. Review the infomation in the following sections fo moe infomation about the vaious types of hazads that might affect you and you family. You can also get hazad infomation fom the Pepae Me Caoll App. Natual Emegencies Huicanes A huicane is a topical stom with winds that have eached a constant speed of 74 miles pe hou o moe. Huicane winds blow in a lage spial aound a elative calm cente known as the eye. The eye is geneally 20 to 30 miles wide, and the stom may extend outwad 400 miles. August and Septembe ae peak months duing huicane season, which lasts fom June 1 though Novembe 30. Most often, Caoll County is affected by huicanes that have been downgaded to topical stom o topical depession status afte making landfall futhe south. Coastlines often suffe the most fom the impacts of huicanes and topical stoms. Howeve, aeas well inland like Caoll County also can be significantly affected. Heavy ains sometimes cause sevee flooding and gusty winds, and tonadoes can cause modeate to majo stuctual damage and can down powe lines and tees. Floods Floods ae one of the most common hazads in the United States, and while some floods develop slowly, othes can develop within a few minutes. Flooding can occu no matte whee you live. Even vey small steams, gullies, ceeks, culvets, dy steambeds, o low-lying gound can flood. Thee is no such thing as a flood poof aea; any aea can flood, even high gound. Some floods take days to develop, but flash floods can esult in aging wates vey quickly. If you live in an aea that has high isk fom flooding: n Avoid building in a floodplain. Elevate the funace, wate heate and electic panel in you home Conside installing check valves to pevent flood wate fom backing up into the dains of you home. If feasible, constuct baies to stop floodwate fom enteing the building and seal walls in basements with watepoofing compounds. Neve walk o dive though floodwates. If you ca stalls on a flooded oadway, abandon it and move to highe gound. Afte a flood: Retun home only when authoities indicate it is safe. Avoid floodwates; wate may be contaminated by oil, gasoline o aw sewage. Use exteme caution when enteing buildings; thee may be hidden damage, paticulaly in foundations. Be awae of aeas whee floodwates have eceded. Roads may have weakened and could collapse unde the weight of a ca. Stay out of any building if it is suounded by floodwates. 8 TERMS TO KNOW Flood o Flash Flood Watch flooding o flash flooding is possible fo you aea. Flood o Flash Flood Waning flooding is expected o is aleady taking place in you aea.

15 Thundestoms Thundestoms often come up suddenly and can pesent a vaiety of hazads including powe outages caused by lightning, heavy ains, hail and wind. Such stoms ae common in Caoll County. They usually take place in the late sping, summe o ealy fall, but they can happen any time of yea. Thundestoms ae sometimes even associated with snow showes. About 2,000 thundestoms ae in pogess aound the wold at any given moment with lightning stiking about 100 times evey second. And yes, lightning can, and does, stike twice! Each yea lightning kills people and injues hundeds moe. Thundestoms and lightning ae vey common fo Mayland. If a thundestom and lightning ae occuing in you aea, you should: Avoid contact with coded phones and devices including those plugged into electic fo echaging. Codless and wieless phones not connected to wall outlets ae OK to use. Avoid contact with electical equipment o cods. Unplug appliances and othe electical items such as computes and tun off ai conditiones. Powe suges fom lightning can cause seious damage. Avoid contact with plumbing. Do not wash you hands, do not take a showe, do not wash dishes, and do not do laundy. Plumbing and bathoom fixtues can conduct electicity. Stay away fom windows and doos, and stay off poches. If you ae caught outside when a thundestom takes place: Avoid natual lightning ods such as a tall, isolated tee in an open aea. Avoid hilltops, open fields, the beach o a boat on the wate. Take shelte in a study building. Avoid isolated sheds o othe small stuctues in open aeas. Avoid contact with anything metal tactos, fam equipment, motocycles, golf cats, golf clubs, and bicycles. If you ae diving: Ty to safely exit the oadway and pak. Stay in the vehicle and tun on the emegency flashes until the heavy ain ends. Avoid touching metal o othe sufaces that conduct electicity in and outside the vehicle. TERMS TO KNOW: Sevee Thundestom Watch issued when conditions ae favoable fo the development of sevee thundestoms in and close to the watch aea Sevee Thundestom Waning issued when a sevee thundestom is indicated by ada o a spotte epots a sevee thundestom. People in the affected aea should seek safe shelte immediately. Tonadoes A tonado appeas as a otating, funnel-shaped cloud that extends fom a thundestom to the gound with whiling winds that can each 300 miles pe hou. Damage paths can be in excess of one mile wide and 50 miles long. Some tonadoes ae clealy visible, while ain o neaby low-hanging clouds obscue othes. Occasionally, tonadoes develop so apidly that little, if any, advance waning is possible. Tonadoes geneally occu nea the tailing edge of a thundestom. Many hit in spasely populated ual aeas and cause little o no damage o casualties. Caoll County has expeienced almost 20 ecoded tonadoes ove the past 40 yeas. The most common time of yea fo tonadoes to occu in Caoll County is Apil though Novembe, and most occu between the hous of 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. 9

16 If you see a tonado o hea a tonado waning fo you aea and you ae in you home o anothe building: Go to the basement o lowest level of the building. o Inteio ooms ae pefeed, away fom outside walls, cones, windows and doos. Take a battey opeated adio with you so you can listen fo official infomation. If possible, take shelte unde something study. Stay away fom windows and doos. If you ae not in a study building, thee is no single eseach-based ecommendation fo what last-esot action to take because many factos can affect you decision. Possible actions include: Immediately get into a vehicle, buckle you seat belt and ty to dive to the closest study shelte. If you vehicle is hit by flying debis while you ae diving, pull ove and pak. Take cove in a stationay vehicle. Put the seat belt on and cove you head with you ams and a blanket, coat o othe cushion if possible. Lie in an aea noticeably lowe than the level of the oadway and cove you head with you ams and a blanket, coat o othe cushion if possible. In ALL situations: Watch out fo flying debis. Flying debis fom tonadoes causes most fatalities and injuies. Do not get unde an ovepass o bidge. You ae safe in a low, flat location. NEVER ty to out-dive a tonado. TERMS TO KNOW: Tonado Watch issued when conditions ae favoable fo the development of tonadoes in and close to the watch aea. Tonado Waning issued when a tonado is indicated by ada o sighted by spottes. People in the affected aea should seek safe shelte immediately. Winte Stoms and Exteme Cold Snow totals in Caoll County can vay geatly fom one season to the next. Many winte stoms ae accompanied by low tempeatues and sometimes, stong winds, ice, sleet, and feezing ain. Heavy snowfall, exteme cold and ice can become dangeous. Sevee winte weathe has the potential to knock out heat, powe, and communications sevices to you home o office, sometimes fo extended peiods of time. Duing winte stoms: Stay indoos if possible. If using an altenate heat souce, make sue it is popely ventilated. Always follow manufactue s instuctions. Eat and dink egulaly. Wea seveal layes of clothing to maintain body heat. If you must go out: o Walk caefully on snowy, icy, walkways. o Avoid oveexetion when shoveling snow. Oveexetion can bing on a heat attack a majo cause of death in the winte. Use caution, take beaks, push the snow instead of lifting it when possible, and lift lighte loads. o Keep dy. Change wet clothing fequently to pevent a loss of body heat. Wet clothing loses all of its insulating value and tansmits heat apidly. Dive only if it is absolutely necessay. If you must dive: o Tavel duing the day. o Don t tavel alone. o Keep othes infomed of you schedule. o Stay on main oads and avoid back oad shotcuts. 10

17 TERMS TO KNOW: Winte Stom Watch advese winte weathe is possible in the watch aea Winte Stom Waning advese winte weathe is expected to occu o is aleady occuing in the waning aea Blizzad Waning sustained winds o fequent gusts of up to 35 mph o geate, consideable falling snow and/o blowing snow, educed visibility to less than ¼ mile fo thee hous o moe. Wind Chill the appaent tempeatue felt on the exposed human body owing to the combination of tempeatue and wind speed Wind Chill Watch - Conditions ae favoable fo colde than nomal wind chill tempeatues Wind Chill Advisoy Dangeous wind chills, eaching -10F to -24F fo a peiod of time, ae imminent o vey pobable. Wind Chill Waning Exteme wind chills, eaching -25F o lowe fo a peiod of time, that ae life-theatening, ae imminent o aleady occuing. Keeping Wam and Safe Sometimes extended powe outages may cause a loss of heat fo families that use electic appliances to heat thei homes. If you need to stay wam: Select a single oom in the home in which the entie family can live; ideally a oom that gets sunlight duing daylight hous. Wea seveal layes of clothing to maintain body heat. Use fieplaces and wood-buning stoves with cae and always supevise them when buning. Make sue the fieplace is in pope woking condition and has been inspected befoe use. Ensue that ashes have cooled befoe emoving them fom the fieplace o woodstove and place them in a metal containe away fom the home. Keosene heates should always be used in a well-ventilated oom, and neve efueled inside the home o in an attached gaage. Keep all types of heates at least 3 feet away fom items that can bun. NEVER use gas ovens, stovetops o gills to heat you home. They pose a seious fie and cabon monoxide theat. Duing peiods of exteme cold, waming centes may be opened in stategic locations thoughout the County to povide esidents with a place to seek efuge fom seveely cold conditions. Infomation about waming cente locations and hous will be povided to the community via adio, television, social media and othe appopiate media outlets. Snow Removal in Caoll County Each yea, the Bueau of Roads Opeations eceives calls fom esidents cuious about the best ways to emove snow fom thei diveways. Believe it o not, the best possible scenaio is fo you to wait until County oads cews have had an oppotunity to plow the oads in you neighbohood o development. Once the oads have been plowed, it makes it easie fo you to emove snow not only fom you diveway, but also any emaining snow pushed off fom the snow plow. If you cannot wait until the snow can be emoved by the County, hee ae some tips fo you to emembe: Wheneve possible, please pak you vehicle(s) in you diveway and not on the oad. If you pak at the end of the diveway, please be cetain that the vehicle does not hang out into the oad. This will ensue that oad cews can maneuve though the steets without obstuction. Paking vehicles in the steet duing and afte a snow event is the most common cause of delays in cleaing the oad. If the oad is fee of vehicles, the County can pefom thei nomal opeations and will not need to epeat outes afte the stom. 11

18 When cleaing you diveway, please thow the snow to the ight side of the diveway (as you wok down fom you house to the oadway, facing the steet). This will educe the amount of snow that is pushed into you diveway when the plows pass though you neighbohood. Clea a path along the oad to the opposite side of the diveway fom you snow pile. When the snowplow comes though, any snow that is on the plow will fall into this aea and will geatly educe the amount of snow that may be pushed back into you diveway. Remembe, it is unlawful to thow snow into the oadway. This is dangeous and will cause additional delays in the snow emoval opeation. Each stom is diffeent and may equie a diffeent appoach fo teating the oads. Most stoms have thee phases of teatment by the Bueau of Roads. Phase 1 consists of teating the oads with salt. You may see this opeation taking place even if thee is no pecipitation on the oads. Phase 2 consists of cleaing the oads fom shoulde to shoulde, and salting if needed, though not down to bae oads. Phase 3 geneally occus duing blizzad conditions only, this is when oad cews concentate on plowing of the main oads and may not get to you neighbohood. Unpaved oads cannot be salted. Afte plowing opeations cease, the County will spead stone chips on the oad fo taction. The Bueau of Roads Opeations has ove 50 outes to plow thoughout the County and is committed to cleaing all oads in a timely and efficient manne. Keep in mind it takes longe to clea the oads in high winds o if an unusual amount of snow happens at one time. You patience is appeciated. Heat Waves Sevee heat, often combined with high humidity duing the summe, can ceate seious health isks. The eldely, infants, and those with cetain chonic illnesses, such as asthma, ae paticulaly at isk, especially if ai conditioning is not available. Duing peiods with exteme heat: Slow down. Stenuous activities should be educed, eliminated, o escheduled to the coolest time of the day. Dess fo the weathe. Loose, lightweight, light-coloed clothing eflects heat and sunlight and helps the body maintain nomal tempeatues. Dink plenty of wate, even if you do not feel thisty. Avoid dinks with suga, caffeine o alcohol. Spend moe time in ai-conditioned places. Limit the amount of time you spend in the sun Duing heat waves, cooling centes may be opened in stategic locations thoughout the County to povide esidents with a place to seek efuge fom sevee heat. Infomation about cooling cente locations and hous will be povided to the community via adio, television, social media and othe appopiate media outlets. TERMS TO KNOW: Heat Index a measue of how hot it eally feels when the elative humidity is combined with the actual ai tempeatue Heat Advisoy issued when a heat index value of between 105F and 110F is expected fo at least thee hous Excessive Heat Watch issued when conditions ae favoable fo an excessive heat event in the next 24 to 72 hous. Excessive Heat Waning issued when a heat index value of 110F of geate is expected within the next 12 to 24 hous. 12

19 Infectious Diseases A few simple healthy habits can help you pevent the spead of infectious diseases: aavoid close contact with people who ae sick. aif possible, stay home fom wok, school, and eands when you ae sick. You will help keep othes fom catching you illness. awash you hands often and well. Hum Happy Bithday twice and make sue you wash the backs of you hands, between you finges, and unde you nails. aif you can t wash you hands, use sanitize with at least 60% alcohol (look at the label). acove you mouth and nose with a tissue o you elbow when coughing o sneezing. aavoid touching you eyes, nose o mouth. Gems spead when you touch something that is contaminated with gems and then touch you eyes, nose, o mouth. apactice othe good health habits. Get plenty of sleep, stay active, manage you stess, dink plenty of fluids, and eat healthy foods. Fo moe tips on peventing the spead of infections: Thee ae many infectious diseases that can affect you and you family. Some common and some less common infectious diseases include: Flu (Influenza) Seasonal flu is a espiatoy illness caused by flu viuses. About 5-20% of people in the United States get the flu each yea. Flu season usually stats in the fall and peaks between Decembe and Febuay, though flu activity can last though the sping. Childen, senios, and people with health issues ae at highest isk of getting the flu, getting vey sick fom the flu, and even dying fom flu-elated causes. Getting the flu vaccine is you best potection against seasonal flu. Evey yea on Octobe 1st o soon afte you should get a flu vaccine. Getting a flu shot in Octobe gives you the best potection fo the whole season. Ask fo the quadivalent vaccine, which potects against an additional stain of the flu compaed to tivalent. If you think you ae not able to get the flu shot fo medical easons, talk to you healthcae povide, because ecommendations have changed fo some goups such as people with egg allegies. The flu vaccine is safe and changes evey yea to fight new flu viuses. Non-seasonal flu viuses such as H7N9 and H5N1 (avian flu) and H3N2V (swine flu) usually infect animals. Howeve, some people who have close contact with animals have caught these flu viuses, and in a few cases have passed the vius to anothe peson. Some of these non-seasonal flu viuses ae simila to seasonal flu, while othes ae moe deadly. Vaccines ae in development fo some types of non-seasonal flu. Fo moe infomation, visit Measles Measles is a vey contagious espiatoy disease. It speads though the ai when an infected peson coughs o sneezes. The vius can live fo up to two hous on a suface o in the ai, so you can catch measles even afte an infected peson has left a oom. Measles causes a feve (often high), cough, unny nose, and ed eyes, with a ash. Babies, childen unde 5, and adults ove 20 ae at highe isk of complications fom measles. Common measles complications include ea infections and diahea. Seious complications include pneumonia, deafness, o bain damage; 1 o 2 out of 1,000 people with measles will die. Continued 13

20 Measles can be pevented with the safe, effective measles, mumps, and ubella (MMR) vaccine. The United States has expeienced many small and a few lage measles outbeaks in the past seveal yeas. Measles is still common in some counties in Euope, Asia, the Pacific, and Afica. Taveles with measles continue to bing the disease into the United States. Measles can spead in the United States when it eaches goups of unvaccinated people. Fo moe infomation: Zika The Zika vius is pimaily spead though the bite of an infected mosquito. Most healthy adults will expeience only mild symptoms that can last up to a week, o will not have any symptoms. Howeve, the Zika vius can cause sevee bith defects such as micocephaly in babies bon to mothes who become infected with the vius duing thei pegnancy. Zika pimaily speads though infected mosquitoes. You can also get Zika by having sex with someone that is infected. The best way to pevent Zika is to pevent mosquito bites. Use EPA-egisteed insect epellent when outside. Remove all standing wate aound you home. Pegnant women should not tavel to aeas with a isk of Zika. Check the CDC website below fo updated tavel infomation. Retuning taveles infected with Zika can spead the vius though mosquito bites and sex. Fo moe infomation: Noovius Noovius is a vey contagious vius that causes stomach pain, nausea, diahea, and vomiting. Noovius illness can be seious, especially fo young childen and olde adults. You can get noovius fom an infected peson, by consuming contaminated food o wate, o by touching contaminated sufaces. Anyone can be infected with noovius and get sick. Also, you can have noovius illness many times in you life. Noovius is the most common cause of foodbone-disease outbeaks in the United States. The best way to help pevent noovius is to pactice pope hand washing and geneal cleanliness. Fo moe infomation: Ebola Ebola is a ae and deadly disease caused by infection with one of the Ebola vius stains. Ebola viuses ae found in seveal Afican counties. The 2014 Ebola outbeak is the lagest in histoy, affecting seveal counties in West Afica. As of Mach, 2015, two impoted cases and two locally acquied cases in healthcae wokes wee epoted in the United States. Ebola is spead by diect contact such as though boken skin o though you mouth, eyes o nose with the body fluids of a peson who is sick with the disease and has symptoms. Ebola is not spead though the ai o in wate, o food legally sold in the United States. You can t catch Ebola fom mosquitoes o othe insects. The isk of catching Ebola in the U.S. is vey low. Fo moe infomation: Tubeculosis (TB) - Tubeculosis (TB) is a disease caused by gems spead though the ai when a peson with TB of the lungs o thoat coughs, sneezes, o speaks. TB usually affects the lungs, but it can also affect othe pats of the body, such as the bain, the kidneys, o the spine. The geneal symptoms of TB include weakness, weight loss, feve, and night sweats. The symptoms of TB of the lungs also include coughing, chest pain, and coughing up blood. 14 A peson with TB can die if they do not get teatment. People who ae moe likely to get sick fom TB include babies and young childen, the eldely, people with medical conditions such as diabetes,

21 cance, and HIV, and people who inject illegal dugs. People can cay TB gems in thei bodies but not get sick. This is called latent TB. They cannot spead the gems to othes. Howeve, they may develop TB disease in the futue and may need to take medicine to pevent them fom developing TB disease. People with active TB usually have symptoms of TB disease. People with TB disease of the lungs o thoat can spead gems to othes. They ae pescibed dugs that can teat TB disease. Fo moe infomation: Meningitis - Meningitis is swelling and inflamation of the potective membanes aound the bain and spinal cod. Meningitis is usually caused by a bacteial o vial infection. Most people ecove fom a bacteial meningitis infection. Howeve, the infection can sometimes quickly lead to seious symptoms and pemanent disabilities such as bain damage, heaing loss, and leaning disabilites. Meningitis can also cause death. * Those who ae most at isk fo bacteial meningitis ae infants, taveles, those with cetain medical conditions, and people who live in community settings (such as college doms) * Vaccines ae available to potect against some foms of bacteial meningitis. * Those with weakened immune systems and childen unde 5 ae most susceptible to vial meningitis. *Fo moe infomation: To lean moe about othe infectious diseases, visit Technological and Man-Made Disastes Fie Fies ae one of the most common disastes to affect ou community. To help pevent fies: Check electical wiing and appliances and eplace won o fayed cods. Do not oveload cicuits with too many appliances. Do not sting extension cods unde ugs. Flammable liquids should be stoed in appoved containes. Neve use flammable liquids indoos o nea flames. Have fieplaces, funaces, and stoves cleaned and inspected evey yea. Do not put pape, magazines, o othe flammable mateials on adiatos, nea stoves, o fieplaces. Do not use gills indoos o on balconies. Fie Safety: adevelop a safe escape oute fo you family in case of fie. Plan two ways of escape in the event one path is blocked by fie. aestablish a meeting place outside fo eveyone. aconduct egula fie dills. akeep a fie extinguishe in you home. See fo infomation about ecommended types and sizes. 15

22 In case of a fie: Stay low. If you ae in bed, oll out and cawl on the floo unde the smoke. Cawl to the doo, using the wall as a guide. Check the doo fo heat with the back of you hand befoe opening. o If the doo is cool to the touch, open slowly so that it can be shut quickly if flames o smoke ae on the othe side. o If the doo is hot o smoke is seeping undeneath, do not open the doo. Put a blanket, towel, obe, o heavy clothing in the cack. If you cannot exit though the doo, use the wall as a guide and cawl to a window and open it. Take a sheet o lage piece of cloth and wave it and shout fo help if you ae unable to climb out of the window to the gound to safety. Take shot beaths and cove you nose and mouth with clothing o a towel to avoid beathing in fumes and smoke. Shout FIRE once outside the heavy smoke to signal to othes. While still inside the house, you can signal to othes in the home by pounding on walls o floos. Escape fist. If fiefightes ae not at the scene, call o tell someone to call 911. Do not go back inside to make the call. Smoke Alams 4Smoke alams can wan that thee is a fie, but you must maintain them if they ae to wok popely. Check and eplace batteies evey six months. A good way to emembe is to change the batteies evey daylight savings time change. Some units will beep when the batteies need to be eplaced. 4Clean the alam egulaly to keep out dust that can damage the unit. 4Test the alam monthly by pushing the test button. 4Newe smoke alams may have a 10-yea battey that will not need to be eplaced evey six months. Make sue to check and see which type of smoke alam you have, and always follow the manufactue s instuctions fo battey eplacement and testing. 4It is ecommended that any type of smoke alam be eplaced evey 10 yeas. 4Take into account the needs of all membes of you household. Install visual smoke alams as well as audible vesions if any individuals in you family ae deaf o had-of-heaing. 16

23 Hazadous Mateials A hazadous mateial is defined by law as, any poduct that coodes othe mateials, explodes o is easily ignited, eacts stongly with wate, is unstable when exposed to heat o shock, o is othewise toxic to humans, animals, o the envionment. Hazadous mateials can include: explosives, flammable gases and liquids, poisons o poisonous gases, coosives and caustics, nonflammable gases, oxidizes, wate-eactive mateials, and adioactive mateials. Hazadous mateials ae tanspoted by oad, wate, ai, ail, and pipeline, and ae stoed at fixed sites acoss the state. Hazadous mateials pose a isk to life, health, and popety if they ae eleased. Hazads can occu duing poduction, stoage, tanspotation, use, o disposal. Sevice stations, chemical plants, fams, wastewate teatment plants, and hospitals ae just some of the facilities that outinely stoe adioactive, flammable, o othe hazadous mateials. Accidents involving hazadous mateials may cause local officials to ecommend that you and you family eithe shelte-in-place (page 4) o evacuate (page 5) to emain safe. Teoism The events of Septembe 11, 2001 and the subsequent anthax mailings led most Ameicans to ealize that teoism is a theat we need to live with and a possibility fo which we need to pepae. Teoists can attempt to cause ham in multiple ways. Explosives, biological agents, chemicals, adiation ae all possible teoist weapons, and cybeteoism continues to evolve as a significant theat. Biological Emegencies What is a biological emegency? Bacteia, viuses and poisons made by bacteia cause biological emegencies. They can be spayed into the ai, used to contaminate food, and put into dinking wate. Some types can also be spead by peson-to-peson contact. What should I do DURING a biological emegency? Listen to a television, adio o emegency-alet system fo instuctions. Have a battey poweed adio available, if needed. Officials will tell you whethe to SHELTER IN PLACE (page 4) o EVACUATE (page 5). They will tell you whee you can go if you need to leave you home. Will a biological emegency make me sick? You may not know ight away if you wee exposed to the gems o poisons that caused the emegency. Symptoms depend on the type of gem o poison that caused the emegency. Some common signs include touble beathing and flu-like symptoms. In case of a biological emegency, local o state officials will let you know what symptoms to look fo. If you feel sick, call you docto ight away. They may tell you to: o Take you clothes off and put them in a plastic bag. o Wash youself with soap and wate. o Put on clean clothes. 17

24 What should I do AFTER a biological emegency? Continue to listen to the television, adio, emegency alet system and othe media souces fo instuctions. Chemical Emegencies What is a chemical emegency? Chemical emegencies happen when the ai is poisoned with hamful chemicals, o when chemicals ae used to contaminate food o dinking wate. These chemicals can be beathed in, absobed though the skin, o ingested by eating o dinking food o wate. What should I do DURING a chemical emegency? Listen to the television, adio, emegency-alet system and othe media souces fo instuctions. Have a battey poweed adio available, if needed. Officials will tell you whethe to SHELTER IN PLACE (page 4) o EVACUATE (page 5). They will tell you whee to go if you need to leave you home. If you ae told to SHELTER IN PLACE, you might be instucted to: o Tun off all ventilation systems. This includes funaces, ai conditiones, vents and fans. o Stay in an inside oom with no windows. Make sue thee is enough space fo eveyone in the oom. o Seal the oom openings with heavy-duty tape and plastic sheets. Room openings include doos and all vents. If you ae caught in an unpotected aea you should: o Ty to get away fom the affected aea as quickly as possible. o Ty to find shelte as soon as possible. Will a chemical emegency make me sick? Duing a chemical emegency, you may have some of these symptoms: o Watey eyes o Touble walking in a staight line o Buning feeling on you skin o Touble beathing o Choking o Confusion o Twitching In case of a chemical emegency, local o state officials will tell you what symptoms to look fo. If you feel sick, call you docto ight away. They may tell you to: o Take off you clothes and put them in a plastic bag. o Put on clean clothes. o Gently and thooughly wash youself with soap and wate. Do NOT scub you skin because the chemicals could cause moe buning. What should I do AFTER a chemical emegency? Continue to listen to the television, adio, emegency alet system and othe media souces fo instuctions. If you think you have been exposed to a chemical agent, call you local health depatment to local police depatment. 18

25 Nuclea o Radiation Emegencies What ae nuclea o adiation emegencies? Nuclea emegencies happen when adioactive o nuclea mateial explodes. These explosions can cause blinding light, heat, fies and dangeous adiation. A adiation emegency could include a nuclea powe plant accident, o it could be an explosion fom a dity bomb. A dity bomb is an explosive, like dynamite, that contains adioactive mateials. What should I do DURING a nuclea o adiation emegency? State and local authoities will monito the amount of adiation and decide what to do. Listen to the adio, television, emegency-alet system and othe media souces fo instuctions. Have a battey poweed adio available if needed. Officials will tell you whethe to SHELTER IN PLACE (page 4) o EVACUATE (page 5). Will a nuclea o adiation emegency make me sick? Dity bombs pobably do not have enough adiation to make you sick the main dange is fom the blast but a lage nuclea explosion could make you sick. It can take seveal hous to days fo any signs to appea. Some people have no symptoms, while othes have one o two symptoms. Some common symptoms include: o Reddening of the skin o Nausea and vomiting o Headache o Feeling vey tied o Diahea o Soe mouth o bleeding gums If you feel sick, call you docto ight away. What should I do AFTER a nuclea o adiation emegency? If you ae not close to the aea whee the explosion happened, you should go inside and listen to the adio, television, emegency-alet system and othe media souces fo instuctions. If you ae nea the explosion and not hut, you should: o Walk to the neaest building and go inside. Staying inside will educe you exposue to adioactive mateial. o Take off you clothes and shoes as fast as you can and put them in a plastic bag. Seal the bag. o Take a showe o wash you skin as best you can with soap and wate. o Listen to the adio, watch television o monito othe media outlets fo infomation about what to do. Cybeteoism Often times, we may not ealize that ou actions online might put us, ou families, and even ou county at isk. Leaning about the danges online and taking action to potect ouselves is the fist step in making the Intenet a safe place fo eveyone. Cybesecuity is a shaed esponsibility and we each have a ole to play. The extent, natue, and timing of cybe incidents ae impossible to pedict. Thee may o may not be any waning. Some cybe incidents take a long time (weeks, months o yeas) to be discoveed and identified. You can incease you chances of avoiding cybe isks by setting up the pope contols. The following ae things you can do to potect youself, you family, and you popety befoe a cybe-incident occus: 19

26 Only connect to the Intenet ove secue, passwod- potected netwoks. Do not click on links o pop-ups, open attachments, o espond to s fom stanges. Always ente a URL by hand instead of following links if you ae unsue of the sende. Do not espond to online equests fo Pesonally Identifiable Infomation (PII); most oganizations banks, univesities, companies, etc. do not ask fo you pesonal infomation ove the Intenet. Limit who you ae shaing infomation with by eviewing the pivacy settings on you social media accounts. Tust you gut; if you think an offe is too good to be tue, then it pobably is. Passwod potect all devices that connect to the Intenet and use accounts. Do not use the same passwod twice; choose a passwod that means something to you and you only; change you passwods on a egula basis. If you see something suspicious, epot it to the pope authoities. Suspicious Activity The fedeal, state, o local govenment may call fo a heightened state of alet on the pat of local law enfocement and citizens. When on heightened alet, law enfocement agencies may add exta patols at a numbe of locations, incease staff, cay exta potective equipment, and communicate moe fequently with fedeal, state, o othe local law enfocement agencies. Citizens should also be on alet and epot any suspicious activity to police. Do not fail to act because you ae not sue what you obseve is woth epoting. If you suspect a cime is being, o about to be, committed, call 911. Stay calm and do not put youself at isk. If the activity simply appeas suspicious, call a non-emegency law enfocement numbe and descibe the activity. What types of activity should you epot? A stange vehicle paked in you neighbohood fo a long time. Recuing appeaances of a stange vehicle in you neighbohood. Stanges looking into houses and vehicles, o knocking on doos. A peson tampeing with utility systems without an identifiable company vehicle o unifom. A lage amount of taffic coming to an apatment o house. A house whee exteme secuity measues ae in foce. Homes o buildings whee no owne o pimay ente is appaent, and no home activities, yad wok, painting, o maintenance seem to go on. Stange odos coming fom houses o buildings. Doo-to-doo solicitos without pope identification o pemits. Pesons standing aound possibly as lookouts. Stanges who come aound livestock o cops, o employee-only aeas. A peson who asks impope questions about you wokplace opeations, secuity, o co-wokes habits. Tip 411 Anonymous Text Pogam To send a confidential tip to the Hampstead Police Depatment send a text to and include HPDTIPS followed by you anonymous tip. To send a confidential tip to the Mancheste Police Depatment send a text to and include MPDTIPS followed by you anonymous tip. To send a confidential tip to the Westminste Police Depatment send a text to and include TIPWPD followed by you anonymous tip. 20

27 Opioid Ovedose Dug ovedose deaths have been on the ise in Caoll County and nationwide. Many of these deaths ae elated to opioid use. Opioids include illegal dugs like heoin and pesciption medications used to teat pain such as oxycodone, hydocodone, mophine, fentanyl, and methadone. Regula use of opioids can lead to addiction, especially when medications ae taken at highe than ecommended doses, combined with alcohol o othe dugs, o taken without a pesciption. How to Avoid Opioid Misuse / Opioid Ovedose Take medication only as pescibed; do not take moe than instucted. Call a docto if you pain wosens. Neve mix painkilles with alcohol o sleeping pills. Stoe you medication in a safe place, out of the each of childen - pefeably in a locked box and not in a medicine cabinet. Dispose of unused medication pomptly and at designated dop-off locations Signs and Symptoms of an Opioid Ovedose Include: Laboed, shallow, o difficulty beathing Lips, finges, o face tuning blue Clammy skin Limp body Vomiting Pinpoint pupils Convulsions Death attle (laboed exhale that may esemble snoing) Cannot wake What to do in an Ovedose 1. Call 911 immediately - Mayland s Good Samaitan Law povides immunity fo you and the ovedose victim if you call fo help. Don t Run, Call 911! 2. Stay with the peson - DO NOT slap the peson, put into a cold bath o ty to induce vomiting. 3. Give Naloxone (Nacan, EVZIO ) if available: anyone can get Naloxone at a Mayland phamacy without a pesciption. Opeation Save A Life: Lean How to Administe Naloxone Naloxone is a life-saving medication that can quickly evese an opioid ovedose. It cannot be used to get high and is not addictive. As of June 1, 2017, anyone can get Naloxone at any Mayland phamacy without a pesciption. Fo moe infomation about Naloxone and taining to use it, visit 21

28 Impotant Phone Numbes and Intenet Resouces Oganization Phone Numbe Website Emegencies Fie/EMS/Police Caoll County Emegency Communications Cente Non-Emegency, Caoll County Emegency Infomation duing GET-EOC ( ) community-wide emegencies Caoll County Sheiff s Office Non-Emegency, FBI - Baltimoe Mayland Tips Line to epot suspicious activity TIPS (8477) Mayland State Fie Mashal Hampstead Police Depatment Mancheste Police Depatment Mt. Aiy Police Depatment Sykesville Police Depatment Taneytown Police Depatment Westminste Police Depatment Mayland State Police Westminste Baack Mayland Natual Resouces Police DNR Caoll County Bueau of Utilities Caoll County Health Depatment / Caoll County Public Schools Caoll County Roads Mayland Cente fo Missing Pesons Mayland Extension Sevice Mayland State Highway Administation / Mayland Relay Sevice 7-1-1/ Mayland Poison Cente Ameican Red Coss Westen Mayland Chapte chaptes/wmd United Way of Cental Mayland 2-1-1/ Comcast Potomac Edison LIGHTSS /( ) BGE (gas leak o othe emegency) BGE (powe outage o downed wie) Veizon

29 P Emegency Checklist # Clip and save Wate Food - non-peishable Can opene - non-electic Flashlight Battey poweed o hand-canked adio Exta Batteies Fist Aid Kit Medical equipment and assistive devices Whistle to signal fo help Tools and supplies Pesonal Hygiene items Moist towelettes o hand sanitize Cell phone with chage Emegency contact infomation Cash Blanket o sleeping bag Change of clothing Maps Impotant pesonal documents Items fo you pet

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