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Evacuation planning is crucial to your disaster planning efforts and should include elements such as what roles will staff play, who needs to be notified, how it will be conducted, where you will evacuate to, and how to prepare residents for evacuation when it becomes necessary. Remember to include processes for evacuating horizontally as well as vertically, when applicable. In addition, there are two potential broad scenarios to consider when planning for evacuation: a wide-spread disaster that will impact a great number of people, and a facility disaster that impacts just your facility. Plan with first responders to consider both of these types of events. In the first scenario, your planning should consider evacuating out of the area with little support from first responders. It is a worst case scenario evacuation. In the second case, you may count on first responder assistance, and you may wish to evacuate to nearby locations to minimize the stress and difficulty of evacuation. It also may help to think about slow- and fast-onset disasters. In some cases you may have warning that you need to evacuate, whereas in others, you have to evacuate immediately. Consider the impact of transfer trauma on your residents in all evacuation planning and execution, and make certain that first responders are well aware of this phenomenon as well. If they are not aware of the risk to residents, they do not have all the information they need to help you make a good decision about whether or not to evacuate. Evacuation Planning Resources
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