Emergency Preparedness Week 2025
Your Guide to Emergency Preparedness Week 2025: Planning for all seasons
Emergency Preparedness Week is May 4–10, 2025. Emergencies can occur in any season, and being prepared helps ensure your safety, as well as the safety of your loved ones and neighbours.
Steps to Prepare for Any Emergency:
Create a Step-by-Step Emergency Plan:
Involve your entire family in the planning process. Regularly update your plan, and make sure everyone knows what to do in the event of an emergency. Consider scenarios like snowstorms, power outages, floods, high winds, or extreme heat.
Prepare Emergency Kits:
Home Emergency Kit: Have a kit ready with essential items like food, water, medications, first-aid supplies, flashlights, and extra clothing. Keep a one-week supply of medications for family members and pets, and replace food and water as they approach expiration.
Vehicle Emergency Kit: For travel, keep a kit that includes a blanket, flashlight, non-perishable food, water, jumper cables, and a phone charger.
Recommended items for your home kit include:
- A basic first-aid kit
- A battery-powered radio
- Flashlights and extra batteries
- A week's worth of medications
- Non-perishable food (3-day supply)
- 12L of water per person
Vehicle kit essentials:
- Extra clothing and footwear
- A road map and work gloves
- Shovel and ice scraper
- Non-perishable food and water
- Phone charger and road flares
Strengthen Social Connections:
Get to know your neighbours, especially those who may need extra assistance during an emergency. Share emergency contact information, and plan to check in on each other during and after a disaster.
When you prepare for all seasons and build a strong network, you're not only ensuring your family's safety, but also helping build a more resilient community.
Stay informed:
The City of Burlington provides emergency notifications for residents to stay informed during emergencies through the national Alert Ready System.
Subscribe to City of Burlington newsfeeds for the latest information, including extreme weather alerts, snow control updates, service disruptions, and more.
Conservation Halton offers a free email service to let you know when they issue flood and low water messages. Subscribe to stay informed.
For more emergency preparedness tips, visit Burlington.ca/emergencyprep.
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