Discuss with family members what could happen, and how they will be warned.

Pick two places to meet: 1) just outside of the home, and 2) outside of the neighborhood.

Get an out-of-state friend to be your family contact. After a disaster it may be easier to make a long distance phone call.

Develop and practice an evacuation plan. Have an evacuation kit ready to go into the car.

Remember to plan for children, disabled and elderly persons, and family pets.

Post emergency numbers by the phone.

Check for adequate insurance coverage.

Maintain a working fire extinguisher.

Install smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.

Conduct a home hazard hunt. Anything that can move, fall, break or cause a fire is a home hazard. For example, a hot water heater or a book shelf can fall.

Prepare any equipment for escaping from your home such as ladders for upper level windows.

Stock emergency supplies and a Disaster Supplies Kit (a 72 hour survival kit). Pack this kit so that you can move it quickly to your car or assembly area if needed.

Family Disaster Supply Kit

Water - at least one gallon per person per day

Food - 72 hours of ready to eat high energy foods (remember there may not be any power so use foods that do not need to be refrigerated or cooked)

Food preparation supplies

First aid kit and non-prescription medications

Sanitary supplies

Shelter (a tent, camper or trailer)

Bedding

Extra clothing

Tools

Special items for babies, disabled and elderly persons and family pets

Copies of important family documents

Money (you may not be able to access your bank accounts)

Know how to contact local emergency medical services.

Know how to turn off water, gas and electricity.

Know how to use the fire extinguisher.

Know how to do first aid and CPR.

Know how to escape and where to assemble.

Quiz family members every six months.

Conduct fire and emergency evacuation drills.

Replace outdated supplies.

Maintain equipment.

Replace batteries.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Amebiasis

Anthrax

Botulism

Brucellosis

Campylobacteriosis

Chancroid

Chickenpox

Chlamydia trachomatis

Cholera

Coccidioidomycosis

Colorado tick fever

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Cryptosporidiosis

Cyclospora infection

Diphtheria

Echinococcosis

Ehrlichiosis, human granulocytic and human monocytic

Encephalitis: primary, post-infectious, arthropod-borne and unspecified

Enterococcal infection, vancomycin-resistant

Escherichia coli O157:H7

Giardiasis

Gonorrhea: sexually transmitted and ophthalmia neonatorum

Haemophilus influenzae, invasive disease

Hansen Disease (Leprosy)

Hantavirus Infections and Pulmonary Syndrome

Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, postdiarrheal

Hepatitis A

Hepatitis B, cases and carriers

Hepatitis, other viral: type C, and non-A non-B

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection.

Influenza, laboratory confirmed

Kawasaki Syndrome

Legionellosis

Listeriosis

Lyme disease

Malaria

Measles

Meningitis, aseptic and bacterial (specify etiology)

Meningococcal Disease, invasive

Mumps

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Pertussis

Plague

Poliomyelitis, paralytic

Psittacosis

Q Fever

Rabies, human and animal

Relapsing fever, tick-borne and louse-borne

Reye Syndrome

Rheumatic fever

Rocky Mountain spotted fever

Rubella

Rubella congenital syndrome

Salmonellosis

Shigellosis

Staphylococcal Diseases (all outbreaks and staphylococcus aureus with resistance or intermediate resistance to vancomycin or resistance to methicillin isolated from any site)

Streptococcal Disease (invasive, group A isolated from a normally sterile site)

Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome

Streptococcus Pneumoniae (drug-resistant invasive disease, isolated from a normally sterile site)

Syphilis, all stages and congenital

Tetanus

Toxic-Shock Syndrome

Trichinosis

Tuberculosis

Tularemia

Typhoid, cases and carriers

Yellow fever

Any sudden or extraordinary occurrence of infectious or communicable disease is also reportable. Any disease occurrence, pattern of cases, suspect cases, or increased incidence of any illness which may indicate an outbreak, epidemic or related public health hazard, including but not limited to suspected or confirmed outbreaks of food borne or waterborne disease, newly recognized or re-emergent diseases or disease producing agents, shall be reported immediately by telephone to the Bureau of Epidemiology, Utah Department of Health, 801-538-6191.

Bacillus anthracis;

Bordetella pertussis;

Campylobacter species;

Clostridium botulinum;

Corny bacterium diphtheriae;

Enterococcus, vancomycin-resistant;

Escherichia coli, enterohemorrhagic;

Francisella tularensis;

Haemophilus influenzae, from normally sterile sites;

Influenza, types A and B;

Legionella species;

Listeria monocytogenes;

Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex;

Neisseria gonorrhoeae;

Neisseria meningitidis, from normally sterile sites;

Salmonella species;

Shigella species;

Staphylococcus aureus with resistance or intermediate resistance to vancomycin isolated from any site;

Vibrio cholera;

Yersinia species.