Carver County is a wonderful place to live and work. We have quiet urban neighborhoods, small towns and rural family farms, all free of the hustle and bustle of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. While this may seem like a safe and peaceful place to live, emergencies and disasters do happen in our county. Historically, we have faced weather emergencies in all seasons of the year including winter's ice and snow hazards, warm weather tornadoes and flooding, and storms throughout the year. As a farming community, we face the possibility of accidents involving ammonia, which is a vital tool for our farmers. We even face threats like pandemic influenza and other disasters.
Part of Getting Informed is making sure you know what is going on in your community. If you have school-aged children, do you know what plans their schools have if an emergency strikes? What about your own employer? Getting to know your neighbors is also a good way of staying informed. Sharing information means we're all better informed, and familiarity makes it easier to ask for help if you need it and to give help if your neighbors need it.
Don't let accidental poisoning happen to anyone you love. More than half of poison exposures happen to children five years old or younger, like drinking windshield washer fluid, which is severely toxic.
In case of a suspected poisoning, call the Minnesota Poison Control at 1-800-222-1222 for treatment recommendations. Or for more information about poison in the home, go to Minnesota Poison Control's website at http://www.mnpoison.org/.
Emergency and Community Health Outreach - ECHO Translations
As Carver County becomes more culturally diverse, we welcome residents for whom English may not be a familiar language. To give limited-English speakers a source for
life-saving safety and emergency information in their native tongues, Emergency and Community Health Outreach (ECHO) offers telephone and internet help. ECHO is accessible online at www.echominnesota.org or by phone at 1-888-883-8831.
As Carver County becomes more culturally diverse, we welcome residents for whom English may not be a familiar language. To give limited-English speakers a source for
life-saving safety and emergency information in their native tongues, Emergency and Community Health Outreach (ECHO) offers telephone and internet help. ECHO is accessible online at 