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Disaster
Emergency Preparedness Week on until May 11
May 6, 2024 | 5:36 PM
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PRINCE GEORGE—Are you prepared for disaster? Everyone has a role to play during an emergency and Emergency Preparedness week is a time for you to ensure you’re prepared to protect yourself, your family and your community from harm.
Public Safety Canada has provided a list of tips on how to properly use technology during an emergency situation:
- If possible, use non-voice channels like texting. These use less bandwidth than voice communications and may work even when phone service doesn’t.
- If you must use a phone, keep your conversation brief and convey only vital information to emergency personnel or family. This will also conserve your phone’s battery.
- Unable to complete a call? Wait 10 seconds before redialing to help reduce network congestion. Note, cordless phones rely on electricity and will not work during a power outage. If you have a landline, keep at least one corded phone in your home.
- Keep a charger for your mobile device in your emergency kit. Consider getting a solar-powered, crank, or vehicle phone charger. If you don’t have a cell phone, keep a prepaid phone card in your emergency kit.
- Keep your contacts up to date on your phone, email and other channels. This will make it easier to reach important contacts, such as friends, family, neighbours, child’s school, or insurance agent.
- If you have a smartphone, save your safe meeting location on its mapping application.
- Conserve your smartphone’s battery by reducing the screen’s brightness, placing your phone in airplane mode, and closing apps you are not using. You never know how long a power outage will last.
If you or someone around you is in an emergency, call 911. You are currently unable to text 911. If you are not in an emergency situation do not call 911, call 311 instead .
