The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) website is one of the best emergency preparedness websites, private or public.
The CDC’s Emergency Preparedness and Response pages include truly credible resources on bioterrorism, mass casualties, chemical emergencies, natural disasters and severe weather, radiation emergencies and recent outbreaks and incidents.
While the CDC’s “Preparing for a Terrorist Bombing: A Common Sense Approach” is realistic for large populations, it does not describe true emergency preparedness.
The CDC recommends following emergency personnel and going to the hospital when injured. To a shelter owner, this advice is obvious and inadequate. But what would we have them recommend? To immediately enter an imaginary shelter?
America doesn’t have enough shelters. Only private groups, families and corporations who prepare for terrorism will have an underground safe haven when terrorists bomb American soil.
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