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“Seven times a day, someone dies in a home fire. Every 40 minutes, an injury from a fire is reported,” said Russ Paulsen, Executive Director, Community Preparedness and Resilience. “Most people don’t realize that, in a fire, you may literally only have two minutes to get out of your home. Making sure you have access to important documents—like copies of your drivers license, lists of emergency contacts and insurance information—will help right away and in the long term.”
Original copies of important documents should be kept in a safety deposit box away from home. Photocopies of these documents, along with contact lists and disaster plans, should be placed with disaster supplies and in emergency evacuation kits. Additionally, a digital disaster kit should be created by saving digital copies on a password-protected area of an Internet server as well as on a secure flash (thumb) drive that can be kept on a key ring or quickly slipped in a pocket. The goal is to be able to access these important files wherever and whenever needed.