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Working with neighbours can save lives and property. Meet with your neighbours to plan how the neighbourhood could plan for a disaster.

Know your neighbours' special skills
(e.g., medical, technical) and consider how you could help neighbours who have special needs, such as disabled and elderly persons.

 

Help your community

• Get trained in first aid, CPR and other courses

• Read the Community Disaster Education materials

• Volunteer

Click on these Red Cross links for more info on what to do for:

• Blackouts

• Chemical Emergencies

• Drought

• Earthquakes

• Fires

• Floods

• Heat Waves

• Hurricanes

• Mudslides

• Pandemic Flu

• Thunderstorms

• Tsunami

• Wild Fires

• Winter Storms

 

From the Cape Argus - fire in Hout Bay in 2000