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Individuals With Special Needs

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/or 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 know someone who is blind or mioght have difficulty reading this calendar, please read it to them. Emergency information is also available on a cassette tape and is available at your town library.

If you are hard of hearing and would need to be notified on a TTY (telephonew device for the deaf) of a public emergency, please notify your local Emergency Management Office. You may use the special needs card inside the printed calendar.

ALL INFORMATION IS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL AND FOR USE DURING AN ACTUAL EMERGENCY.

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 Emergency Alert system radio station.