Is Your Home Ready If Disaster Strikes?

When you live in Chester, you have to ask yourself a very important question. Is your home ready if there is ever a disaster? It will be an easier question to answer if you take the time to go

It’s best to use a checklist to see if you have everything you need, room by room. To get you started:

• Have a first aid kit in the kitchen
• Have a fire extinguisher in the kitchen and on every level of the house
• Ensure working carbon monoxide detectors and smoke alarms are on every floor
• Ensure batteries and emergency lighting is around the house, including every room
• Have extra food and water on hand
• Keep protein heavy nonperishable foods in the pantry
• Keep extra blankets around
• Buy a weather radio
• Maintain a list of emergency contact numbers

Depending upon the layout of your home, you want to make sure that you have other supplies as well. If you have bedrooms on the second floor, having an emergency escape ladder can provide a secondary route of escape if needed. You may also want to have a corded phone plugged into your landline on each level of your home in the event you need to call for help.

Check on your home preparedness levels on a regular basis so that if you are short on supplies, you can replenish before a disaster ever threatens to harm your home or your family.

Call The Insurance Outfit today so that one of our insurance agents can talk to you about emergency preparedness as well as the different coverage options that exist in Chester, New Jersey. Our goal is to help you find an affordable policy that provides you with peace of mind all year long.