"Be Prepared"

With Swine Flu dominating news headlines, and public health agencies around the world carefully monitoring a serious disease outbreak, we are reminded that Newton should always be prepared for emergencies in advance. Currently, our city is not as prepared as we should be to respond to a natural disaster, terrorist attack, disease outbreak, or other emergency.

We should develop and promulgate an emergency response and communication plan with the following components: clear lines of communication, pre-positioning of emergency supplies and medicines in strategic locations throughout the city, and planned evacuation routes in case a portion of the city is not safe.  To learn more, please click here.

Also, for a fact sheet on the Swine Flu, please click here.