ATLANTA - Gov. Sonny Perdue has announced a statewide campaign to help Georgians prepare for a large-scale disaster but Hall County is ahead of the game.
Perdue announced the ``Ready Georgia'' program on Monday during a ceremony proclaiming Feb. 3-9 as Severe Weather Awareness Week in Georgia. The campaign will be led by the Georgia Emergency Management Agency.
Perdue said preparing for a disaster can protect people and save lives.
The Ready Georgia campaign is designed to educate and engage Georgians to ``think, prepare and act'' in advance of natural and man-made disasters and provides a local dimension to Ready America, a broader national campaign.
The campaign aims to prepare citizens for maintaining self-sufficiency for at least 72 hours following an emergency.
Hall County Emergency Management Agency Coordinator William Wright said much of what Perdue has proposed is already being delivered through the agency's Citizens Emergency Response Team training.
The sessions meet twice a week for 10 weeks. Another session is set to begin this summer.
"Bring prepared for an emergency is not really something you do and then put it on a shelf," Wright said. "It's something that you have to be aware of all the time."
For more information about Perdue's campaign or emergency preparedness, visit www.ready.gov or contact Wright's office at 770-531-6838.
(AccessNorthGa.com's Ashley Cox and Ken Stanford contributed to this story.)
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