The Emergency Information Council will hold its first free Vital Document Scanning event on Feb. 22^nd from 1 to 3pm in Clubhouse 3, room 3.

An emergency or disaster can erase the vital documents and records of our lives instantly if we haven’t prepared in advance. Planning ahead means saving the basic information needed to endure a crisis and get lives back on track afterwards. One way to do that is to have our vital documents and information scanned onto a memory stick, sometimes called a thumb drive, and keeping that drive with your emergency Go Bag in case you have to evacuate in a hurry.

The Emergency Information Council’s first scanning event will scan documents for the first 60 residents on to a thumb drive. For this first event your documents should not exceed 20 pages. More documents can be added to your drive at future events if needed.

Documents and information we might need to quickly rebuild our life might include those verifying our personal identification, wills, Leisure World Stock and Member Certificates. Medical, financial, and insurance identifying and contact information are other possibilities along with an inventory of our valuables and home contents.

EIC President Jackie Dunagan is shown here getting the scanner ready to copy vital documents onto a colorful thumb drive for safe keeping. The copier shown here can be used to transfer odd sized materials into the proper size for scanning. The scanning and thumb drive are free. Also available will be the optional waterproof container for the thumb drive and the fireproof document holder shown in the photo.