Your Emergency Plan
Preparing for emergencies
The Australia Red Cross is a valuable resource when it comes to preparing for a whole range of emergencies such as Fire, Flood, Heatwaves and Power outages to name a few.
You can view that information here: https://www.redcross.org.au/prepare/
Emergency Kit
The Australia Red Cross has a checklist you can find here: https://www.redcross.org.au/globalassets/cms/emergency-services/preparedness/checklist-get-packing.pdf
By packing a survival kit in advance, you can save yourself a lot of time and stress.
Things in your kit can include
3 days of Food and Bottled Drinking water
A Torch and Batteries
Cash
Prescription Medicines
Battery Radio
Copy's of Important documents such as Passports, Will's, Driver Licenses and Insurance Papers.
Pet Essentials
Clothes for you and your family
Chargers
First Aid Kit
RediPlan
The Australia Red Cross has created a template called RediPlan to help you and your family collect important information before an emergency.
You can download a copy here: https://www.redcross.org.au/globalassets/cms-assets/documents/emergency-services/rediplan-lite-interactive.pdf
The Australia Red Cross has multiple other resources such as guides for
Seniors
Children
Parents
Those with Chronic Illness,
Those with Disability,
Auslan videos for Hearing impaired,
Resources in other languages such as Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, Dari , Farsi, Hindi, Indonesian, Kurdish, Pashto, Punjabi, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Tamil and Vietnamese.
You can find that information here: https://www.redcross.org.au/emergencies/resources/