Presenter: Allan Fraser, NFPA   

In March of 2010, FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate said, “We don’t plan for easy in FEMA, we plan for real.” Up to 50 percent of your community may need assistance in an emergency, with 20 percent likely to have disabilities affecting their ability to understand preparedness information, hear alerts, and get out of their building. Three years earlier, on March 2, 2007, NFPA published the first step-by-step guide for preparing a personal emergency evacuation plan from any building for people with disabilities. This session will look at the development of personal evacuation plans using this guide and how they practice them. Using NFPA’s Emergency Evacuation Planning for People with Disabilities is the first step to “Getting Real.”