Families are the First First-Responders

By |2017-02-10T09:50:24-07:00May 30th, 2013|Preparedness|

Our country’s disaster preparedness system is really a matrix that starts with families and goes all the way to a coordinated federal response.  In between are local first-responders, county public health and emergency management, and state public health and emergency management.  But really- the real first first-responders are moms, dads, grandmas and grandpas and even kids.  [...]