It is recommended that residents form a “Buddy System”.
“Buddies” inform each other when out of town, check on each other during emergencies and in general look out for each other. If an emergency arose requiring an evacuation “buddies” would check to assure their “buddy” was aware of the emergency and made it safely out the building to the assembly area.
A “buddy” would know if their “buddy” was not in the building and would report such to the Fire Department thus preventing a potentially unnecessary and dangerous search for a presumed unaccounted person.