Helping Your Neighbors

• Try to determine the structural status of their home from the outside.
• Smell for smoke and gas and look for smoke and fire from the outside.
• If safe to do so, approach the home and make contact with those within.
• Give first aid and rescue assistance for those inside who are injured or trapped.
• Report serious injuries and fires to 9-1-1 or to your CERPP Neighborhood Operations Center, using your Family Radio Service radio, Channel ___, if you have one.
• Assist neighbors shut off damaged utilities, if there is structural damage.
• Assist them suppress any fires and clean up any potential chemical hazards.
• Report neighbors’ status to your Neighborhood Operations Center, if not done previously.
• If no one is home and you have prior permission, enter the home to check for and assist with injured or trapped persons, fire, gas and other hazards.

After Checking On Your Immediate Neighbors:

• Proceed to your neighborhood Staging Area.
• Share information on what you have found and actions taken.
• Form up your neighborhood team.
• Follow the action plan outlined in the following sections.