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Table of Contents Preparation for an Emergency................................x
Early Warning System.............................................x
Protecting your home and workplace from attacks....x
Sandbagging (house/wall)......................................x
Immediate Actions on Hearing a Warning..............x
Protection from heavy artillery and small arms fire.....x
After an incident.....................................................x
Preparing for Evacuation........................................x
Mine Risk Education...............................................x
Chemical Attack.
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Fire Safety...............................................................x
Road Safety............................................................x
Siege Preparation...................................................x
Health.....................................................................x
Water and Sanitation..............................................x
Emergency First Aid Section..................................x
Prevent Dehydration...............................................x
Oral Hygiene...........................................................x
Dealing with extreme cold and hot temperatures......x
Mental Health.........................................................x
SCD Contact Information.......................................x
Quiz........................................................................x

SDC Team Illustration

INTRODUCTION The Syria Civil Defense’s number one priori-
ty is the protection of civilians from the dan-
gers of war. Civil Defense teams are neutral
and do not follow any political, religious, or
military group. SCD has different roles in the
community including: marking areas con-
taminated by unexploded ordnance, assist-
ing with evacuations, search and rescue,
awareness raising, fire-fighting, and basic
medical assistance in emergency situations.

This guide provides information on how to
protect your home and your family from haz-
ards. Seek out your local SCD team if you
have questions. Download the SCD appli-
cation on your android phone for addition-
al information from SCD on how to protect
yourself.

Go to Google Play Store and look for The
White Helmets application to download.
Or scan the QR code below:

Fill out the card on the back and keep them
in your pocket at all times. Do the same for
your family members.



1 Preperation for
an Emergency

Preparation for an emergency

Before an attack or any emergency, prepare
yourself, family, and community.
Coordination and Preparation is Essential

1 Ensure that every High 2
member of your Risk
family has access
to
warning information A
and knows what to
do when they hear a B
warning.

2 React every time
you hear a siren
or warning. Take
warnings seriously,
even if they are
frequent.

Risk scale in C
becoming a
victim D

High Risk Low Risk Low
Risk
A - Standing in an open
space or in the street 3

B - Lying down in an
open space or in the
street

C - Lying down behind
lower grounds or
behind a closed door

D - Lying down in an
underground shelter
in your house or
a shelter with no
windows

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3 Practice drills with your 6 Talk to the teachers 8 See the cards at the
family to determine at your child’s school end of the guide. Fill
each person’s role in about their emergency out the information,
an emergency. plans. Release cut out the card, and
students from school ensure everyone in
4 Choose a meeting at staggered times. your household carries
location that everyone it around.
knows and is 7 Keep several forms of
comfortable with. contact information 8
in multiple places in
5 Practice disaster drills case your phone is
in the community so not working or you
that everyone does lose it. All of your
not run to one shelter children should have
at the same time. This this information in case
could also create a you get separated.
gathering of people
that may be attacked.

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Preparation for an emergency

9 If you live in an 9
apartment building, 10
coordinate with your
neighbors before
an incident occurs.
In a conventional
strike, it is advised
to go to lower floors
or to a basement or
shelter. In the event
of a chemical attack,
it is advised to find
higher ground if
you cannot escape
the contaminated
area completely.
This requires
communication,
cooperation, and
planning with your
neighbors.

10 Put your glasses 13 Identify safe places
in an eyeglass case along your daily route
next to you when you such as basements
sleep, this can prevent so that you can
them from breaking run to the nearest
and throwing you into one if there is an
a panic. emergency.

11 Keep a flash light 13
nearby when you
sleep.

12 Plan your movements
so that you are not
exposed for too long.


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14 Prepare an An emergency bag should include :
emergency bag!
Plenty of water
Pack an emergency High-energy food (like nuts and or dates)
bag in case you have Communication equipment such as a portable
to evacuate or move radio (solar, wind-up, or with extra batteries),
to a shelter or safe walkie talkie, satellite phone, and mobile phone if
place. Keep this bag you have one
near an exit or near First aid supplies and prescription medications
your person so that Flashlight (solar, wind-up, or with extra batteries)
you can reach it in an Pocket knife
emergency. Matches and/or a lighter
Candles
14 Extra clothing (a jacket, a change of under
clothing and socks, sturdy shoes)
Emergency blanket
Necessary personal toiletries
Assistive devices
Emergency contact information (phone numbers
and email address in case your phone is lost,
broken, or you cannot charge it)
Copies of vital records and documents
Cash

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2 Early Warning
System

Early Warning System

What is Sentry? You can get warnings
Sentry is an early warning system for airstrikes via FB Messenger in
against civilians in Syria. It disseminates warnings one of two ways:
regarding military aircraft sightings in Syria prior to
airstrikes in order to alert civilians and reduce the 1 Send a message to
number of casualties. Sentry is a service provided by our homepage on
Syrian Civil Defense (SCD). Facebook

How does Sentry work?
2 Search for
Sentry securely aggregates validated aircraft "Sentry Syria" account
observations from trained civilian observatories, within "FB Messenger"
processes and predicts the potential target location and start a conversa-
and the arrival time of the aircraft, and then tion with it.
publishes the relevant warnings as fast as possible.

How are Sentry alerts being published?
You will then be taken to the
Warnings are currently being disseminated via social service subscription interface,
media (Facebook - Facebook Page and Facebook which will help you identify
Messenger, Twitter, and location-specific Telegram and sign up for the region(s)
channels), Radio Fresh station, and in the future via for which you wish to receive
SCD sirens. A specialized monitoring team validates warnings.
the published warnings 24/7.

How do you access Sentry warnings?
For access to Sentry warnings, go to our Facebook homepage (Sentry Syria):
https://www.facebook.com/Sentry.Syria. There you will find a list of all region-
specific Telegram channels for which Sentry currently sends warnings.

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3 Protecting
your home
and workplace
from attacks

Protecting your home and workplace from attacks

1 Create a family safe 2
room. Locate a place
in your home away
from exterior walls,
windows, and stored
fuel. If possible, stay
near a stairwell and
on the bottom floor or
basement.

Take fur-
niture, appliances, and
any glass or ceramic
out of your safe room.

2 Create a safe hav- 3 Glass windows should 5 Hang heavy curtains
en. This is especially be removed and that reach the floor in
important for families replaced with nylon. If windows to prevent fly-
living in single story possible, cover win- ing glass and debris in
buildings without a dows with timber or the event of an attack.

basement or internal sandbags.
rooms. 6 Keep objects and
4 Eliminate as much furniture at least 30cm
Go to your SCD center glass and sharp ob- away from walls. These
for a step by step guide jects as possible inside become secondary
to build a safe haven. the home. fragments under the
blast pressure of an
explosion.

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Protecting your home and workplace from attacks

7 Do not store fuel 7
directly outside your
house.
If you must, 10 Build trenches if you
keep fuel as far away live or work in the open
from the bedroom and or in the countryside.
kitchen as possible. 11 Sandbags or earth
bund walls around the
8 Place sandbags perimeter of a building
around your generator may also help to absorb
or fuel drum (see page some of the secondary
X for how to stack fragments and blast if
sandbags). constructed correctly
(see page X).
9 Ensure that there is
proper ventilation in the
home especially in the
winter.

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For more information on protecting your home, visit
your local SCD center to retrieve a step by step guide to
building the designs listed above to protect your home.
You can also download the SCD application!

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Sandbagging
(house/wall)