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Planning and Preparedness

 
 

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It's important for everyone to prepare for a disaster.

 
Disasters can strike quickly and without warning. What will you do for food? How will you communicate with family members? What medications do you need? What will you do with your pet? Where do you go if you aren't home?  How can you help your community? Many questions need to be answered, and every family has a variety of needs that they will be concerned about. Some planning on your part could play a large role in protecting you, your family, and your community.

Follow the steps below to begin your preparedness journey.  

1. Know your risk.

Understand your risk to disasters and other emergencies. Emergency Management conducts an All Hazards Mitigation Plan each year to determine what hazards impact St. Louis County and what steps have been taken to mitigate those risks. You may access the plan by clicking the button below. In St. Louis County, the top risks for our area include:

  1. Flooding
  2. Wildfire
  3. Severe winter weather
  4. Pandemic
  5. Port incidents

St. Louis County All Hazards Mitigation Plan

 

2. Make a plan

Make a plan that includes how you will communicate with your family and other loved ones during a disaster, how you will receive emergency alerts, what emergency supplies you will need, and what actions to take.
  1. Review our emergency preparedness guides in the document library below. These guides can serve as a template for building out your plan.
  2. Sign up for local emergency alerts in St. Louis County by clicking the Northland Alert button below.
  3. Pin or favorite our Evacuation Routes map to know when and where to evacuate. 
  4. Review our Severe Weather tab for hazard-specific information on what to do in extreme weather.

Sign up to receive emergency alerts

 

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Know how to evacuate. Pin this page.

Live Evacuation Routes

3. Practice your plan.

Develop a schedule to update your plan on a regular basis. We recommend reviewing your plan, refreshing your emergency supplies, and reviewing any other preparedness materials at least annually. Get your family and community involved and practice or exercise the different parts of your plan. For more information and tips on how you can keep your plan to practice find our Practice Preparedness document in the library below.

Contacts

In emergency or to file a report, call 911.

Sheriff's Office Emergency Management Division 218-625-3960

Josh Brinkman, Emergency Management Coordinator 218-625-3966 Email

Dewey Johnson, Emergency Support Services Administrator 218-726-2936 Email

Scott Lesnau, Public Health Emergency Preparedness Coordinator 218-471-7619 Email

Grace Elmudesi, Public Health Emergency Preparedness Planner 218-725-5167 Email