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Are You Prepared for a Disaster / Emergency?
Be prepared, plan ahead—because the steps you take today could save your life tomorrow! Start today with these helpful, easy-to-use resources:
- Emergency Supply Checklist
- Emergency Communications Plan - Fillable Form
- Food to Include in Your Safety Kit
- Emergency Alert Notifications
- Access & Functional Needs
- Helping Children Cope with Disaster
- Emergency Pet Checklist
- Pets and Large Animal Care During A Disaster
- Planning for Older Adults
- Preparedness Planning for Business
- Preparedness Overview
- Emergency and Natural Disaster Organizations
- U.S. Disaster and Emergency Support
- Tribal Affairs
- Planee anticipadamente para los desastres
Access and Functional Needs (AFN) Overview
Access and Functional Needs (AFN) refers to individuals with and without disabilities, who may need additional assistance because of any condition. That may limit their ability to act in an emergency.
No two disasters are the same, yet all have a disproportionate effect on our most vulnerable populations - individuals with access and functional needs (AFN) such as people with disabilities, older adults, children, those with limited English proficiency, and those with transportation disadvantages. Nevada Office of Emergency Management (NV OEM) works hard to use a whole-community approach, offering training and guidance to emergency managers & planners, disability advocates, and other service providers to plan for, respond to, and help communities recover from disasters. NV OEM understands the realities of disasters and takes steps to ensure AFN are incorporated into everything we do.
NV OEM's AFN coordinator assists with identifying the needs of individuals with disabilities and others with access or functional needs before, during, and after disasters and integrating them into the State’s emergency management plans and systems. NV OEM’s AFN coordinator plans for the realities of disasters by integrating access and functional needs into everything the agency does including partnership development, outreach, training, guidance and providing technical assistance. NV OEM’s goal is to ensure all Nevadans are prepared for and supported during an emergency.
Emergency Preparedness Forms in Multiple Languages
Emergency checklists and evacuation plans are available in multiple languages to ensure everyone can access critical preparedness information. These resources provide clear, step-by-step guidance to help individuals and families stay safe before, during, and after an emergency. By offering them in various languages, we aim to support Nevada’s diverse communities in building resilience and readiness.
Plan Ahead Nevada Guide
The Nevada Office of Emergency Management has developed this comprehensive guide to provide Nevadans with information, helpful tips, checklists and techniques on preparing your family, friends and pets for all emergency conditions.
Preparing before an emergency incident plays a vital role in ensuring that everyone in your household, employers and workers have the necessary equipment, know where to go, and know how to keep themselves safe when an emergency occurs. This guide provides information on how to prepare and train for emergencies and the hazards to be aware of when an emergency occurs.
Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
The Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) process helps communities identify capability targets and resource requirements necessary to address anticipated and unanticipated risks.
The THIRA is a three-step risk assessment completed every three years. It helps answer the following questions:
- What threats and hazards can affect our community?
- If they occurred, what impacts would those threats and hazards have on our community?
- Based on those impacts, what capabilities should our community have?
The THIRA helps communities understand their risks and determine the level of capability they need in order to address those risks. By understanding its risks, a community can make smart decisions about how to manage risk, including developing needed capabilities. Risk is the potential for an unwanted outcome resulting from an incident, event, or occurrence, as determined by its likelihood and the associated consequences.
Core Capabilities
Communities use the core capabilities described in the National Preparedness Goal to organize their capability targets in the THIRA process. The core capabilities provide a common language for preparedness across the whole community.
The core capabilities are relevant to all five preparedness mission areas:
- Prevention: Prevent, avoid, or stop an imminent, threatened, or actual act of terrorism.
- Protection: Protect our citizens, residents, visitors, and assets against the greatest threats and hazards in a manner that allows our interests, aspirations, and way of life to thrive.
- Mitigation: Reduce the loss of life and property by lessening the impact of future disasters.
- Response: Respond quickly to save lives; protect property and the environment; and meet basic human needs in the aftermath of a catastrophic incident.
- Recovery: Recover through a focus on the timely restoration, strengthening, and revitalization of infrastructure, housing, and a sustainable economy, as well as the health, social, cultural, historic, and environmental fabric of communities affected by a catastrophic incident.
Information and Resources on Disasters and Emergencies - Categories Identified
- Attacks in Crowded and Public Spaces - Active Shooter
- Avalanche
- Biohazard Exposure / Attack
- Chemicals and Hazardous Materials Incidents
- Cybersecurity Awareness
- Drought
- Earthquakes
- Explosions
- Extreme Heat
- Floods
- Landslides and Debris Flow
- Nuclear Blast
- Pandemic
- Radiological Information
- Suspicious Mail or Package Handling
- Thunderstorms and Lightning
- Tornadoes
- Wildland Fire
Home Emergencies and Safety Measures
Nevada 211
Nevada 211 is a special phone number reserved to provide information and referrals to health, human and social service organizations. Dialing 2-1-1 in almost every part of the United States will connect you to human and social services for your area. Services included in 2-1-1 are: places to find emergency food, housing and emergency shelter locations, children’s services, support for seniors, and people with disabilities, and mental health and counseling services, among many others. Nevada 2-1-1 is committed to helping Nevadans connect with the services they need.
Neighborhood Watch Programs
The National Neighborhood Watch program empowers citizens to become active in community efforts through participation in Neighborhood Watch groups. Neighborhood Watch programs help keep neighborhoods and communities safe. Starting your own crime prevention program—or reviving one that’s already been started in your neighborhood—can reduce crime in your area and give you a greater sense of security, and can even help improve your property’s value.
National Preparedness Month
National Preparedness Month (NPM) is recognized each September to raise awareness about the importance of and to promote family and community disaster planning now and throughout the year. As our nation continues to respond to various disasters and emergencies, there is no better time to start planning and get involved.
Disasters and emergencies can happen any time. Are you prepared Nevada?
Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plan
Comprehensive Preparedness Guide provides guidance for developing emergency operations plans. It promotes a common understanding of the fundamentals of risk-informed planning and decision making to help planners examine a hazard or threat and produce integrated, coordinated, and synchronized plans.
Kids Corner - Fun Educational Resources
The resources on this page offer children, parents, and teachers fun and educational tools— including videos, games, activity books, quizzes, and activities—designed to help kids build awareness, confidence, and practical skills in emergency preparedness and safety.
Kids Corner - Fun Educational Preparedness and Safety Resources