Emergency Preparedness Information

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Overview

The Office of Emergency Management wants you to be well-informed about what’s going on in your community and know how to respond to an emergency.  On this page, you can download fact sheets, brochures, guidelines, and instructions regarding a wide variety of subjects related to emergency preparedness.  

Emergency Alerts

Louisiana Emergency Preparedness Guides

Stay prepared with the Louisiana Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP).

Disaster Preparedness

  1. Family Disaster Supply Kit (PDF)

Emergency Shelters

  1. Emergency Shelters General Information (PDF)
  2. Locating Emergency Shelter (PDF)
  3. State of LA Sheltering (PDF)

Evacuation & Re-Entry

  1. Contraflow in Kenner-Metairie (PDF)
  2. Disaster Evacuation Lodging & Housing (PDF)
  3. Evacuation General Information (PDF)
  4. Jefferson Parish Special Needs Registry (PDF)
  5. MyDOTD Service Offers Roadway Alerts To Motorists (PDF)
  6. Post Disaster Reentry (PDF)
  7. Road Closures (PDF)

Extreme Weather

  1. Extreme Heat Advisory Information (PDF)
  2. Extreme Cold Advisory Information (PDF)

Floods

  1. Flood Protective Measures (PDF)
  2. What To Do If You Are Flooding (PDF)

Hazardous Materials

  1. Hazardous Materials Incident General Information (PDF)
  2. Waterford 3 Color Zone Map (PDF)
  3. Waterford 3 Radiological Emergency Information (PDF)

Storms

  1. Hailstorm General Information (PDF)
  2. Hurricane Scale (PDF)
  3. NOAA Hurricane Tracking Chart (PDF)
  4. Storm Advisory System (PDF)
  5. Storm Debris Guidelines (PDF)
  6. Thunderstorm General Information (PDF)
  7. Tornado General Information (PDF)
  8. Weather Links (PDF)
  9. Windstorm General Information (PDF)
  10. NOAA Extreme Weather Information Sheet (PDF)

Disaster Assistance & Recovery

  1. Disaster Food Assistance (PDF)
  2. How to Locate Individual Disaster Assistance (PDF)