General Preparedness and Response

• By taking a few simple steps today, you can become better prepared to face a range of emergencies -- anytime, anywhere. Use this guide to identify the risks in your area, create your own emergency plan and personalize your 72-hour emergency kit. These basic steps will help you to take care of yourself and your loved ones during an emergency. Checklists for assembling personal emergency kits.
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• fold-out brochure summarizing the three steps you need to take to help you and your family prepare for an emergency: Know the Risks, Make a Plan, Get a Kit.

• Knowing what to do during an emergency is an important part of being prepared. Use this guide for information on what to do in different situations.What to do in emergency situations such as terrorist attacks

• cooperative effort between twenty public and private organizations who were consulted for their subject matter expertise and special insights.

• How to care for your pets before, during and after an emergency

• A guide aimed at Canadian farmers explaining the steps that should be taken to ensure farm animals, livestock, and poultry are protected during an emergency.

• Basic precautions that can help protect you on trips into the wilderness.

• Step-by-step advice, general precautions and evacuation procedures
• What to do after a flood: re-entry, precautions during cleanup, tips on cleaning water-damaged items
• Information on what to keep and what to discard; steps to follow before moving back into your house

• Detailed instructions on what to do and who to call to help with your flood recovery.
• Including clean up and contact numbers

Other Manitoba flood preparation factsheets
Other Manitoba flood recovery factsheets

• Step-by-step advice on how to calculate sand required, safety tips, dike building and removal.

• Advice on how to prepare for a severe storm, choose a shelter area, pack an emergency kit, etc
• What to do after any severe storm
• Advice on what to do in the home or in the car during a tornado, a hurricane, a severe thunderstorm, hail, freezing rain or a blizzard

• Precautions to take to reduce the harmful effects of power and heating outages
• What to do, and what not to do, during and after a power outage
• Steps to take in case you need to evacuate your home

• Booklet describing flood protection structures in Manitoba
• Information on past historic floods
• Manitoba's Emergency Management System

• Maps and data covering a 150-year period
• Locations, types and magnitudes of significant natural disasters
• Earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, tsunamis, landslides and snow avalanches, volcanic eruptions and more

Recovery

• Identifies people at risk and possible health effects of mold.
• Clean up instructions

• Instructions for reducing the risk to livestock and managing dead livestock during and after a flood.

Disaster Financial Assistance (DFA)

• Disaster Financial Assistance Program application
• PDF Application-Print, complete and submit the application
• More information on DFA

• Complete and submit with Application (above) when damage includes rented farmland.

• Application for EMO training courses
• Complete this application and return to EMO
• See the Training page for more information on courses offered by EMO

• Completed and submitted by Community Officials to report private and public sector damages within the Community
• Complete this assessment and return to EMO
• Complete the Community Impact Assessment form on-line
• See the Community Impact Assessment page for more information

• Evacuation Registration Form PDF version
• Evacuation Registration Form Microsoft Word version

• Sample EOC Log Sheet Form PDF version
• Sample EOC Log Sheet Form Microsoft Word version