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Individuals With Disabilities

Let your local Emergency Management Director know in advance if you need any special assistance during an emergency. Special help can be made available to you.

Your local Emergency Management Organization is prepared to help you if you have a special need and would need assistance during a public emergency. If you or someone in your household would need special help being notified of an emergency, sheltering-in-place, evacuating, or staying in a mass care shelter, please let the Emergency Management Director know immediately. Special help is available, but is best planned before an emergency happens. Please fill out the confidential special needs card inside this calendar. A new card should be sent in every year.

If you are deaf or hard of hearing and would need special notification of a public emergency, please notify your local
Emergency Management Director, or the Vermont Center for Independent Living (VCIL) 254-6851 (voice) or 254-8867 (TTY) as special equipment is available. You may use the special needs card inside the calendar or download one from the RERP Emergency Planning Information web page at www.vtnuclearsafety.com, or call 1-802-251-2172 or 1-800-47-0488 and ask for the RERP Program.

You may request alternate forms of the Emergency Planning Information contained in this calendar on the Vermont
Radiological Emergency Response Plan (RERP) website (www.vtnuclearsafety.com) such as a cassette recording, braille, large print, etc. or you may print out this information.

ALL INFORMATION WILL BE KEPT STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.

If you have children who might be home alone, make sure they understand the information in this calendar and know what to do in an emergency. It is especially important that they know how to tune to their local Emergency Alert system radio station.