During National Preparedness Month, the Los Angeles Fire Department asks you to...

Complete an emergency contact card for every adult and child in your household - and see that they are carried at all times.

Be sure to include an out-of-town contact, as it is often easier to reach someone at a distance when local phone lines are out of service or overloaded.

And finally... know the location of a wired landline phone near where you live, work and play. In a disaster, these phones may work when cell phones and cordless phones won't.


Submitted by Brian Humphrey, Spokesman
Los Angeles Fire Department