Siskiyou County Emergency Preparedness Guide - Family Contact Information

Be smart. Take part. Create your family emergency communication plan.

Family Contact Cards are an important tool to help your family members stay in touch with each other during an emergency. Planning ahead can reduce the time it takes to contact each of your family members during an emergency. It’s important that you know where everyone is and whether they are safe. 

• “What if something happens and I’m not with my family?”
• “Will I be able to reach them?”
• “How will I know they are safe?”
• “How can I let them know I’m OK?”

During a disaster, you will need to send and receive information from your family. Communication networks, such as mobile phones and computers, could be unreliable during disasters, and electricity could be disrupted. Planning in advance will help ensure that all the members of your household—including children and people with disabilities and others with access and functional needs, as well as outside caregivers—know how to reach each other and where to meet up in an emergency.