Help yourself
What is an Emergency?
An emergency is any event or situation which threatens serious
damage to people, property and / or the environment.
Emergencies happen. There may be times when an
emergency affects you, but your life isn’t in immediate danger. In
these times, you’ll need to know how to help yourself and those
around you. Find out how you and your family can prepare for,
respond to, and recover from emergencies. Look at our
Before an Emergency Section for more
information
The role of the Northumbria Local Resilience
Forum is to assess the risks which the community of
Northumbria might face and to plan, together, how each agency will
respond to deal with them if or when they occur. The sorts of
emergencies that could affect people in Northumbria are Severe
Weather, Flooding, Industrial Accidents or Pandemic Influenza
outbreak for example. For further detail refer to the
Northumbria Community
Risk Register (CRR)
Specific Plans are developed, tested and exercised to ensure the
partners (Responders) are aware of and can fulfil their roles in
the event of a multi agency response being required to some of the
risks identified in the CRR (click here to go to Library section)
Other "generic" plans are developed to provide a framework for
multi agency responses for less frequent or unexpected events and
situations.
Before an
Emergency
During an
Emergency
After an
Emergency
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