Sarasota County urges families to create a Family Communications Plan
Sarasota County Emergency Services released a report noting that your family may not be together when a disaster strikes. It says you should plan in advance how you will get to a safe place, how you will contact one another, how and where you will meet, and what you will do in different situations. The report urges people to create a Family Communications Plan.
Learn more about how to prepare at scgov.net/beprepared.
Make a Communications Plan is also promoted at ready.gov/make-a-plan and weather.gov.
Source: Sarasota County Emergency Services
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