Luzerne County Animal Response Team

Assisting Animals In Emergencies

Luzerne County Animal Response Team

Assisting Animals In Emergencies

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Prepare for Disaster or Emergency

Create disaster preparedness kits and emergency plans for your family, pets and other animals. The time to prepare your home, business, or farm for an emergency is before the emergency occurs.

Animal Disaster Kit

For Pet Owners

Animal emergencies create danger for animals and their owners. Lack of preparation leads to unnecessary tragedy, human injury, and economic loss. Pets are the Number One reason people return to their homes before local authorities have declared it safe to do so, risking lives in the effort to save beloved pets. Pennsylvania is home to millions of agricultural and domestic animals. SART encourages all pet owners to evacuate with their animals to prevent endangering human and animal lives. By remembering to include your pets as part of your family’s emergency evacuation plan, you can avoid those last minute decisions that could endanger the safety of your family and pets.

Sound animal disaster preparedness planning should encompass:

  • One week’s emergency rations and water
  • Identification tags, leg bands or tattoos
  • Pet first aid kits
  • Current photos of your animals filed with your important papers

Heat Precautions for Your Pet 2014.pdf
Information you need to know about your pets and excessive heat.

Pet Friendly Travel Arrangements
Web site that helps visitors find pet-friendly lodging, pet sitting and other related pet travel services and information. The article section has travel tip information, pet-friendly locales and events, as well as health tips.

Pet Preparedness
Don’t forget your four-legged friends when preparing for an emergency. This guide contains helpful hints for being prepared to deal with your pets during an emergency.

PASART Pet First Aid Kit Recommendations Updated July 2012.pdf
A great resource listing of the items that should go into a first aid kit for your pets.

Authorization for Release of Pet Medical Information
Signed document that serves as an authorization for a veterinarian to release pet medical records to designated individual(s).

HSUS Pet Preparedness Test
Are you ready for a disaster?

Caged Animals – In case of Emergency/Disaster
Written by Crawford CART

Pot Belly Pig Care Guide
Lehigh CART

Pet First Aid handout June 2014.pdf
PDF Document containing the slides from a Pet First Aid presentation file

FEMA Pet Preparedness Initiative and Toolkit-February 2014
PDF Document containing FEMA Region III Pet Preparedness Information for the public and Animal Disaster Responders

About Us

The Luzerne County Animal Response Team provides emergency shelter and rescue to animals in times of disaster, both natural and man-made. Luzerne CART is extension of the Pennsylvania State Animal Response Team and is tasked with responding to animals in emergencies like car accidents, house fires and floods. Our team sets up animal shelters, if an evacuation occurred for a disaster like a flood. We also do technical rescue for both small and large animals. We are an all volunteer group that is dispatched through the 911 call center. Over 63% of households across the US have at least one pet. When a Disaster Strikes Who Will Protect and Care for Them In today’s world, we all worry about the threat of a natural … Read More ....

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Luzerne County Severe Weather Ordinance

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Important Links

  • Pennsylvania State Animal Response Team
  • Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency
  • FEMA
  • The Humane Society of the United States
  • American Humane Association
  • Luzerne County Emergency Management – Facebook Page
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