Before a disaster

1. Create a plan to implement in case of disaster which will care for the deceased.

2. Act as a liaison between the ward and stake and the state agencies.

3. Help add to local cache: plastic for grave liners, lime, back hoes, tractors. shovels, body bags, stretchers, information logs, toe tags, temporary casket materials, etc.

In the event of a disaster (if needed)

1. Contact local mortuaries, coroners, and hospitals to see what services are available.

2. Set up a temporary morgue with stretchers, body bags, temporary casket materials, toe tags, and information logs. In cold weather wrapped bodies can be stored with adequate security.

3. Locate deceased individuals and transport them local morgues or to temporary morgue.

4. Triage all deceased individuals to insure that they are indeed deceased.

5. Contact the EOC for security personnel for bodies. Bodies may NOT be removed from the temporary morgue under any circumstance except by authorized persons.

6. Locate and designate emergency burial locations.

7. Fill out information logs on all deceased and provide copies to the EOC, ward and stake leaders.

8. Arrange for and bury deceased individuals.

1. Bodies should be treated, dressed and wrapped as soon as possible (within 24 hours).

2. Make note of the following information for each body:
full name, residence, birthplace, parents, children, who delivered body and their address, disposition of the body, cause of death, any identifying marks or scars

3. Retain all jewelry and personal effects for family members.

4. If funerals are desired they should be done the next day if not the same day.

5. Never deny family members their rights to view their family members body before burial.

6. Burial should not be delayed more than two days.

7. Burial should not be delayed for a family member to arrive or the construction of a casket.

8. If family members are insistent on longer burial times the body will have to have all internal organs removed and disposed of.

9. In viewing for bodies try to pin the eye lids shut to avoid embarrassing situations.

10. If body bags and toe tags are available they should be used in the absence of caskets.

11. If body bags nor caskets are available the body could be wrapped in plastic and treated with quick lime.

12. In the event theat the local morgue is unavailable or swamped it is also well assumed that other services will not be available.

13. A provisional morgue should only be used if city, county and other services are unavailable.

14. If burial plots are available in cemeteries they should be used if not they should be procured as far away as possible from water and food supplies as well as population centers.

15. The need for mass burial may be necessary and considered under extreme situations.