In Time of Emergency / A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968)

by United States. Office of Civil Defense

FALLOUT SHELTERS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE

SUMMARY

Before an emergency

1. Learn the locations of the public fallout shelters that your local government wants you to go to in a time of attack. If no instructions of this kind have been issued, learn the locations of the public shelters nearest to you when you are at home, work, or school. Make sure each member of the family knows these locations.

2. If there is no public fallout shelter near your home, prepare a permanent or preplanned family shelter at home.

During an emergency

1. When you are warned of an enemy attack, go immediately to a public fallout shelter or to your own home shelter, unless your local government has given you other instructions.

2. Stay in shelter until you receive official notice that it is safe to come out.