Their advice is especially important this month, as the Department of Homeland Security has made September National Preparedness Month.
In my community, I am a certified Shoreline CERT member. CERT stands for Community Emergency Response Team and members are trained and certified to work within their neighborhoods to respond and take charge in emergency situations. As a CERT member, I have a knowledge of the dangers that we potentially face in any emergency situation and the skills/ abilities to get through the it.
On that fateful day 7 years ago, the city of New York did not know what was going to happen to them. City workers and local law enforcement/ firefighters never prepared for terrorist attacks like the ones that happened that day. But those organizations and the city did have a plan for other various emergency situations. They did not have a terrorist attack plan but they had a whole bunch of other plans that helped them work effectively do save the most amount of victims as possible. Brave men and women risked their lives to work the emergency plans they did have in order to try and save human life and normalize the situation as much as possible.
As we reflect on the great loss of American lives in New York, Pennsylvania, and D.C, remember that it is your responsibility to take care of yourselves and your families. The most important thing you can do is to set up an emergency plan and practice it often. Get involved with your employer and start an emergency plan there as well, seeing as we never know when something could happen.
Take a moment today to remember those lives lost and if you should need any help with your emergency plan for your family, your work, or your neighborhood, please give me a call, I'd love to help!
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