Cleaning Up after a Disaster
This page offers basic clean-up information for the stressful times immediately following a flood, as well as more detailed information to help protect yourself during flood clean-up.
Quick Tips:
- Disaster Quick Tips: Basic Clean-Up
- Disaster Quick Tips: Basic Clean-Up for Business
- Disaster Quick Tips: Using Bleach
Detailed Information:
- Cleaning Up After a Disaster
- Cleaning Up Your Business after a Flood
- Use of an N95 Respirator: Cleaning Up After the Flood
- Hand Hygiene: Wash Your Hands!
- Immunizations and Floods
Other Non-MDH Resources:
- Creating A Healthy Home: A Field Guide for Clean-Up of Flooded Homes (PDF: 2.7MB/22 pages) - Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., the National Center for Healthy Housing, and NeighborWorks America in collaboration with Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans

