Your chest should avoid direct contact with the floor and you should cover your eyes with a cloth, while keeping your lips slightly parted. You should then position yourself on the second floor or above, and take refuge in bathrooms and other relatively safe places. If your home is not an apartment, the house may collapse.
Therefore, you should immediately take refuge on the lower floors, and do not take the elevator. Third, you should avoid “dangerous areas.” Metropolitan areas, high-rise areas, buildings with glass facades, and the upper floors of buildings may be in direct contact with the explosion wave should an air raid occur, making them very dangerous. Also, if there are solid concrete structures around you, you should take shelter immediately and keep your body as low as possible. Second, upon hearing air raid warning, you should find shelter that can protect you from flying debris and radiation. The Taichung Police Department also listed five steps to do should an air raid actually occurs.įirst, you must prepare an “emergency bag” which should include your personal IDs, valuables, drinkable water, dried snacks, emergency aid kits, warm clothes, cell phone, radio, and illumination devices. (Photo courtesy of the Taichung Police Department via 4-Way Voice) The Taichung City Department released posters in six languages to help new immigrants better understand what to do. Meanwhile, the Taichung Police Department also designed posters in Chinese, English, Vietnamese, Thai, Japanese and Indonesian. All videos are accessible through Facebook. The Chiayi Police Department also filmed short videos in six languages in the hopes that more new immigrants can be informed of the drill. The Chiayi Police Department also released short, informative video clips to help new immigrants during the drill. This means that this year, there will be no crowd or vehicle control, and citizens won’t be asked to evacuate into buildings during the drill. However, in cooperation with epidemic-prevention measures set in place by the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC, 中央流行疫情指揮中心), large gatherings are to be avoided. The 30-minute exercise will include the sounding of an air raid siren as well as text messages sent through a government account to all citizens’ phones, alerting them of the drill. This year marks the 44th Wan’an Drill and will occur on Sept.
To help new immigrants better know what’s going on, police departments in Taichung City issued posters and videos in six languages explaining what will happen during the drill. Taiwan's Wan'an Air Raid Drill will take place on Wednesday, Sept.