It's a place that can keep you safe in most of the dangerous situations. Mostly they're bunker-like infrastuctures built underground, in case of atomic disaster.
An emergency shelter should be equiped with basic survival and communication devices. An emergency shelter is also filled with food and medicines, in case the people it protect have to stay locked in for a long period.
Some people, concerned by a potential oncoming disaster decide to build an emergency shelter on their land. These ad hoc(made for that precise situation) shelters are most of the time designed to protec people from nuclear attacks.
The closest personal emergency shelter is the basement of one's house.Otherwise, the closest official emergency shelters in most communities is in a public school.
You should not need any documentation to receive help from an emergency shelter.
The Emergency Shelter Grants program provides homeless persons with basic shelter and essential supportive services. It is a government service in times of disaster or need.
If there is a tornado emergency, you need to seek shelter immediately. Always seek shelter in a basement or other place low to the ground. Try to stay somewhere where there are no windows.
The population in emergency and transitional shelter experienced a moderate growth rate from 1990 to 2000, with an increase in the number of individuals seeking these services. This growth indicates a rising need for such shelters during that decade.
You are immediately and automatically seeking shelter in the event of an emergency .
If you go to cityofboston.gov/shelter/ you will find a website that provides a variety of information on emergency services in the city, from WIC, to homeless shelters. The site has a shelter's link which lists emergency housing by category: Men & Women, Women or Men only, family, Day, Night ect.
The closest emergency shelter I can locate to Port Orchard is the Broadview Emergency Shelter in Seattle. Their number is 206-694-6700.
Youth Emergency Shelter offers 16 bunk beds though there are more children in need of shelter. Someone seeking shelter should dial 211 to speak to someone for information and recommendations. Boyle Street Community Services also support.
There are actually quite a few places you can go to for emergency shelter in Birmingham. There are too many for me to list here. One of them is Aletheia House at 1530 3rd Avenue South @ (205) 934-4108. Also go to the url link I have provided. A full listing of all the emergency shelter/housing in your area is listed there along with addresses and phone numbers: http://www.homelessshelterdirectory.org/cgi-bin/id/city.cgi?city=Birmingham&Lstate=A
The Salvation Army helps the poor with food, shelter, and emergency funds.
Contact the Decatur,Alabama Salvation Army.