OHIO, ARE YOU READY?

OHIO, ARE YOU READY?
Ohio’s Readiness and Preparedness Site Has New Look, New Information

The state of Ohio recently launched its improved Web site, which focuses on FEMA’s Ready campaign and lists readiness and preparedness tips for incidents that frequently occur in Ohio.

ReadyOhio provides links to the Ready campaign’s Get a Kit, Make a Plan, Be Informed, and Listo.gov. It also provides easy access to fact sheets on incidents that are common in Ohio.

It asks Ohioans if they are ready for home fire prevention, floods, thunder and lightning, power outages, tornadoes, winter storms and evacuation. Each page provides definitions and/or descriptions of each hazard and provides a link to more complete disaster supplies kit checklist, provided by the American Red Cross.

ReadyOhio is a product of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Ready campaign and National Preparedness Month. Ready is a national public service advertising campaign designed to educate and empower Americans to prepare for and respond to all emergencies. The Ready campaign encourages all states to produce a Ready site with information pertinent to their citizens.

Being ready is ensuring that everyone is prepared to respond to, recover from and rebuild from any major incident – whether it’s an influenza pandemic, a catastrophic tornado or flood, or an extended power outage. Being ready is ensuring that homes and businesses have disaster plans. Being ready is practicing safety drills. Get ready, Ohio. Go to www.ready.ohio.gov.

ReadyOhio partners include: the Ohio Department of Public Safety, Ohio Homeland Security, Ohio Emergency Management Agency, Ohio Citizen Corps, American Red Cross, Ohio Department of Health, Ohio Committee for Severe Weather Awareness, and a host of other state agencies and organizations.