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New Brighton Climate Action Plan 8 -5 <br />What You Can Do <br />You can support the goals of the Health and Safety section of this <br />climate action plan as an individual, household, or a business. <br />Here are just a few things you can do: <br />Make your <br />community <br />resilient <br />• Get involved with your community’s <br />Emergency Response Team (CERT) and <br />join your neighbors and receive training <br />to prepare for potential disasters. <br />• Notice a person who lives alone. Offer <br />to check on them periodically, especially <br />during extreme weather or a natural <br />disaster. <br />• Notice a person who sometimes lacks <br />transportation to their doctor, shopping <br />or other services. Offer to drive them. <br />• Notice a person or family who lacks air <br />conditioning in their home or <br />apartment. Offer to have them visit or <br />stay with you during extreme heat <br />events. <br />• Put together an emergency <br />preparedness kit for your household. <br />• Prepare your home for the extremes. <br />Understand the risk of extreme <br />weather, extreme temperatures, <br />flooding or wildfire to your home, and <br />take action to safeguard your home. <br />• Keep yourself and your family current <br />with physicals, vaccinations and <br />prescribed medications and therapies. <br />• Plan and rehearse a fire evacuation plan <br />with everyone who lives in your home <br />or apartment. <br />• Have breathing-protection masks <br />available for you and your family for <br />when air quality alerts are declared. <br />• Take first-aid and CPR certification <br />training. <br />Make your home <br />resilient <br />Health and Safety