Emergency Text Shelter

📱Shelter Text from FEMA
California: If you’re near a wildfire burn area, pay close attention to instructions from your local officials & your local news and evacuate immediately if told to do so.
 
To locate shelters near you, text “SHELTER” & your zip to 43362.
Transcript
Transcript:
Black background. A person with short dyed hair, wearing a CODIE polo shirt with a long sleeve shirt underneath.
[Graphic card at the bottom: “Maisha Franklin”, next, “Community Outreach Specialist”]
[Graphic image at the top right corner of the screen: five agency logos of GLAD, OCDEAF, CODIE, TCGLAD, and BGLAD]
Maisha: “Federal Emergency Managment Agency (FEMA) made an announcement for the State of California. If you live near the wildfire burn area, watch your local news for updated information. If your local news tell your area needs to be evacuated immediately, and you don’t know where to go. Use your phone, click on the new message and text 43362 then type in shelter and your zip code.”
[Graphic card of “SEARCH FOR SHELTERS NEAR YOU” next to “Text SHELTER and your ZIP CODE to 43362” with a mock phone showing the graphic image.]
[Graphic video showing the demo of a smartphone texting to 43362.]
Maisha: “Here’s an example. If I live in Riverside and there’s a wildfire nearby. My local news told me that my area needs to be evacuated, I’ll use my phone, text 43362 similar to where you type in the phone number, then type shelter 92507.”
[graphic video showing the demo of texting 43362 with shelter information]
Maisha “The shelter information will pop up with details, telling where you can go. If you need assistance or other services, please reach out to one of the agencies near you. Here are the contact information.”
[graphic image showing the contact list of agencies]
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