The Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) has advice on hurricane preparation and evacuation plans.
And we need to make these evacuation plans and get people moving before the very dangerous winds hit.
Gov. Bobby Jindal has preemptively declared a state of emergency and urged residents to update their evacuation plans.
Hurricane Rita is still days away, but evacuation plans are already in effect.
Clients--most of them U.S. multinationals--have had the company set up contingency evacuation plans for Azerbaijan, Yemen, Eritrea and parts of Russia.
In early December state and city officials from around the country met in Pittsburgh to draft similar new downtown evacuation plans.
Townsend says the administration is also reviewing state and local evacuation plans.
"We noticed that most multinationals have well-thought-out evacuation plans, but the aviation link is missing, " says Alan Marler, a director at Air Partner.
Proper evacuation plans are crucial, since at each stage of a natural disaster there might be subsequent secondary events that necessitate further evacuations.
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However, she said areas at risk were "as well prepared as is possible" to deal with potential problems, with evacuation plans in place.
The problems range from obstructions at fire exits and problems with fire extinguishers to a lack of fire evacuation plans, alarms and emergency lights.
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The report calls for requiring nursing homes and adult-care facilities to have evacuation plans and backup power sources and asks for stricter enforcement of standards for utility companies.
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North Korea has warned that the situation has grown so tense it cannot guarantee the safety of foreigners in the country and said embassies in Pyongyang should think about their evacuation plans.
Populations and media throughout the region keenly followed the exercise, which also allowed for an evaluation of evacuation plans and the role of the private sector in the case of a catastrophe.
What is more, in the absence of such defenses, investments in protective equipment, preparation of fallout shelters and development of evacuation plans were typically vilified as hare-brained, wasteful or worst of all destabilizing.
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If the worst happens, and employees are seriously injured or are taken hostage, some corporations will already have have emergency evacuation plans in place, and even hostage negotiators on hand, particularly if a ransom is being demanded.
It has also shown that national authorities must take risk into account at all levels, including education about hazards in schools, urban planning in coastal zones, modification of building codes and materials, evacuation plans for communities and organization of effective emergency services.
The operator (TEPCO), the regulatory bodies (NISA and NSC) and the government body promoting the nuclear power industry (METI), all failed to correctly develop the most basic safety requirements such as assessing the probability of damage, preparing for containing collateral damage from such a disaster, and developing evacuation plans for the public in the case of a serious radiation release.
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The good news for college parents and students is that colleges have disaster plans, evacuation procedures and facilities in place to keep students as safe as possible.
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It is understood the plans for the evacuation include moving government to a secure nuclear bunker somewhere in the countryside.
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