I am currently working/living on an indian reservation in LAME DEER.MONTANA. WE ARE CURRENTLY UNDER A MANDATORY EVACUATION AT THIS TIME DUE TO WILDFIRES. I WORK IN AN OUTPATIENT CLINIC ON THE NORTHERN CHEYENNE INDIAN HEALTH FACILITY WHICH IS AN OUTPATIENT CLINIC, WE DID NOT HAVE TO GO THROUGH AN ACTUAL EVACUATION OF PATIENTS BUT THE CLINIC IS CURRENTLY CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
CREATE A WILDFIRE ACTION PLAN
Your Wildfire Action Plan must be prepared, and familiar to all members of your household well in advance of a wildfire. Use the checklist below to help create your plan. Each family’s plan will be different, depending on a variety of issues, needs, and situations.
Ensure you plan with COVID-19 in mind. Ask friends or relatives outside your area if you would be able to stay with them, should the need arise. If you do need to evacuate and plan to stay with friends or relatives, ask first if they have symptoms of COVID-19 or have people in their home at higher risk for serious illness. If that is the case, make other arrangements. Check with hotels, motels and campgrounds to learn if they are open. Also get set by learning about your community’s response plan for each disaster and determine if these plans have been adapted because of COVID-19.
Your Wildfire Action Plan Checklist
Create an evacuation plan that includes:
A designated emergency meeting location outside the fire or hazard area. This is critical to determine who has safely evacuated from the affected area.
Several different escape routes from your home and community. Practice these often so everyone in your family is familiar in case of emergency.
Have an evacuation plan for pets and large animals such as horses and other livestock.
A Family Communication Plan that designates an out-of-area friend or relative as a point of contact to act as a single source of communication among family members in case of separation. (It is easier to call or message one person and let them contact others than to try and call everyone when phone, cell, and internet systems can be overloaded or limited during a disaster.)
Be Prepared:
Have fire extinguishers on hand and train your family how to use them (check expiration dates regularly).
Ensure that your family knows where your gas, electric, and water main shut-off controls are located and how to safely shut them down in an emergency.
Assemble an Emergency Supply Kit for each person, as recommended by the American Red Cross. (See next section for details.)
Maintain a list of emergency contact numbers posted near your phone and in your emergency supply kit.
Keep an extra Emergency Supply Kit in your car in case you cannot get to your home because of fire or other emergency.
Have a portable radio or scanner so you can stay updated on the fire.
Tell your neighbors about Ready, Set, Go! and your Wildfire Action Plan.
THE SIX P’S
REMEMBER THE SIX “P’S”
Keep These Six “P’s” Ready In Case Immediate Evacuation Is Required:
People and pets
Papers, phone numbers, and important documents
Prescriptions, vitamins, and eyeglasses
Pictures and irreplaceable memorabilia
Personal computer hard drive and disks
“Plastic” (credit cards, ATM cards) and
