Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Disaster Preparedness Videos

We have received a number of requests for disaster preparedness videos. Here is a list of online and free videos covering general preparedness, special needs, pets, safety, hurricanes, earthquakes, and pandemics.


http://www.ready.gov/america/about/instructional.html (general)

http://www.soph.uab.edu/scphp/default.aspx?ID=724 (general)

http://www.utbtsc.edu/safety/video/welcome.html (hurricanes)

http://floridadisaster.org/index.asp and click on the "Media Center" near the top righthand corner (hurricanes)

http://wsfltv.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/wsfl-hurricane-tips,0,3896722.htmlstory?coll=wbzl-home-nav (hurricanes, general)

http://www.cepintdi.org/default.aspx?pageid=174 (Click on "Being Prepared" and then scroll to "Emergency Preparedness Video") for the deaf and hard of hearing.

http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/psa.asp (hurricanes, general)

http://www.emd.wa.gov/publications/pub_index.shtml scroll through for videos (*earthquake) ** There are also PDF documents of a family emergency plan in English, Amharic, Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, Farsi, Ilocano, Korean, Laotian, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Somaly, Spanish, Tagalog, Tigrigna, Ukranian, and Vietnamese.

http://www.nwcn.com/sharedcontent/features/flash/quake/during.html (earthquake)

http://www.sanmiguelcounty.org/portal/page?_pageid=118,148583&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL (pandemics)

http://a1881.g.akamai.net/7/1881/26640/v0001/redcross.download.akamai.com/26640/psa/movie/PandemicFlu/PF_Video1.html (pandemics)

http://readymontco.montcopa.org/readymontco/cwp/view,A,1553,Q,64828.asp (pandemics)