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    Safe Rooms

    A safe room is a reinforced area of your home or building designed to withstand severe wind storms and chemical, radiological, and biological threats. For information on safe rooms and how to build one in your home, go to: www.fema.gov/mit/saferoom.

    If you do not have a reinforced safe room, designate an interior room with few or no windows or external doors (e.g., a hall closet) as a temporary “safe room.”

    If you have not been told to evacuate, use your designated “safe room” to help protect you during an emergency. (A non-reinforced safe room is not typically suitable for protection in a mobile home during high-wind emergencies.)

    Recovery after an Emergency


    Local officials will inform the public when they are confident that the threat has ended. The four options for ending shelter-in-place are:
    • Resume normal activity with no restrictions.
    • Ventilate the shelter but remain indoors.
    • Exit the shelter.
    • Relocate to a designated facility.
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