Make a plan for natural disasters

It’s important to get prepared for extreme weather and natural disasters such as bushfires and floods.

The best way to get you and your household members ready is to develop an emergency plan and then act on it. Your emergency plan needs to prepare you to go or stay when safe to do so, and includes:

• medical information for you and your household members
• important documents and storing them safely in one place
• things to go in an emergency bag or “grab and go” bag
• important information and supplies for any pets or assistance animals.

The following are some resources to help you with your emergency planning.

Red Cross

On your desktop computer, view their Prepare web page. From there you can download a PDF plan that you can fill out and print. Also available in easy English and community languages.

Download the Red cross Get Prepared app to complete a plan on your smart phone.

Person-Centred Emergency Preparedness (P-CEP)

If you are a senior, have a disability or chronic health condition, or face other challenges to completing an emergency plan, you can meet with the below services to develop a plan.

Peppercorn Services – Hawkesbury

320 George St, Windsor NSW 2756

TEL 4587 0222 | EMAIL pcep@peppercorn.org.au

Monday to Friday 9am to 4pm

Belong Blue Mountains

81 – 83 Katoomba Street, Katoomba/

9 New Street, Lawson

Tel 02 4782 1117 | Email info@belongbm.org.au

Monday to Friday 9am to 4pm

How prepared do you feel?

We have been working on a Disaster Resilience Project with Inner Sydney Voice and any Link Wentworth resident across Greater Sydney can contact us to get help to prepare.

We also encourage residents to collaborate with us and share their local knowledge and experience.

Call 13 14 21 or email communities@linkwentworth.org.au to speak to our Communities Team.

This content was informed by the Disaster Resilience Project, with funding from the Australian and NSW governments, through the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements.