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September 20, 2005

New database lists households with “special need” members

Woodbridge Township Office of Emergency Management has taken steps to enhance its disaster preparedness by creating an emergency evacuation database, Mayor Frank G. Pelzman has announced.

“ If you or a member of your household have a special need that would make it difficult or impossible for you to evacuate your home or business during an emergency, we want to know,” says Mayor Pelzman. “This may include people unable to walk, Alzheimer’s patients, those with serious visual or hearing impairments, anyone dependent upon medical or life support equipment and so forth.”

Residents with a special need are asked to call Woodbridge Township Office of Emergency Management at (732) 634-4500 ext. 7361 and request an Emergency Evacuation Notification Form to fill out and return with their vital information.

Since 2002 Woodbridge has had a Safe and Sound Registry that aids the Police Department in locating Alzheimer’s patients, autistic children and those with other forms of mental illness or dementia who have wandered away from home or familiar surroundings.

The Township also employs a state-of-the-art Reverse 911 communications outreach system to inform residents by telephone of an emergency situation.

“In this day and age a community needs to use every means at its disposal to be as prepared as possible,” says Mayor Pelzman. “This database will significantly assist our emergency responders if it becomes necessary to effect an evacuation.”