If you got notice that there was a hazardous materials spill with a cloud of contaminant headed toward your neighborhood and you had 5 minutes to get out of Dodge, what would you forget in the panic of rounding up the kids and getting going?

Come to the EOC, 640 South Franklin, Greenfield next Thursday 2/1 at 7:00 PM. You may want to come a little early – we packed the room last month.

We will continue our round table conversations with “12 Ways to Prepare: Assemble Supplies”. This is the first of several kits that you should have assembled to protect your family.

With the extreme cold weather due to hit our area, please be aware that there will be a warming center open at the Boys and Girls Club in Greenfield (715 East Lincoln) each night, subject to our ability to staff it. We are currently staffed through Sunday 1/14. We open at 7:00 PM and close the following morning at 8:00 AM. There will be food available on the weekend when Kenneth Butler Soup Kitchen is not open.

The center is open to anyone who does not have adequate and safe heat. Please come stay with us instead of using unsafe alternative supplemental heat.

Beyond January 14th you can call either Kenneth Butler Soup Kitchen or the Center Township Trustee’s office to find out if we are open.

January 4, 2024 7:00 PM EOC 640 South Franklin, Greenfield

When the oxygen masks drop on an airplane we are taught to put our own on first and then help those around us.

How does your family emergency plan look? Have you looked at it in the past year? Have you even started to put it down on paper? Here is a link for an online family plan. We will go into this plan in detail on January 4th. Bring what you have.

Everyone’s first task in preparing for a disaster, or in responding to a disaster, is to take care of yourself and your family. You will be of little help to those around you if you are distracted by concern for your own family.

So this year, meetings for Hancock County EMA volunteers and COAD are going to focus on the basics:  Make a Plan, Assemble or Update Your Supplies, Make Your Home Safer, and other topics. Since for many of you this will be a review, the format will be more round table discussion than slide show.

Invite your friends and neighbors.