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September is National Preparedness Month: Is Your Community Ready to Respond to a Severe Weather Event or Emergency?

National Fire Protection Association

Hurricane Lee is expected to gain strength as it travels toward the Caribbean and Bahamas at the end of the week. For the public: A fact sheet and related information provide residents and businesses with easy wildfire risk reduction steps they can do around their homes and buildings to make them safer from wildfire and blowing embers.

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Four Questions About the Covid-19 Pandemic

Emergency Planning

Sectors such as travel, hospitality, tourism, retail, the arts and entertainment will suffer closures and reorganisations. Basic services depend on the work of people who are in the front line of infection, such as nurses, doctors, carers, cleaners and delivery drivers. Income support will be vitally important.

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