The Pleasantdale Civil Defense Organization is locally operated by a loose committee of vigilant Americans that maintains the town's air raid sirens and public fallout shelter with assistance from the Federal Civil Defense Administration, whose local office is established in the Historic District.

There are five public fallout shelters located within the town of Pleasantdale:

The shelter here is scheduled for supply first when federal funding allows. As such, it has been emptied in preparation, excepting for Civil Defense posters and pamphlets to hand out to students and parents.

• District: Pleasantdale Valley
• Can Be Sealed: Yes
• Ventilated: Yes
• Food Supplies: No
• Water Supplies: No
• Medical Supplies: No
• Other Supplies: Civil Defense posters and pamphlets

Although nobody has put any official supplies in the shelter, a maintenance worker has stored a few basic supplies in here.

• District: Pleasantdale Valley
• Can Be Sealed: Yes
• Ventilated: Yes
• Food Supplies: No
• Water Supplies: No
• Medical Supplies: Small first aid kit
• Other Supplies: Wrench, plunger, work gloves, six-pack of beer, school desks, cleaning supplies, towels

The Pleasantdale University Fallout Shelter is stocked only with extra supplies from the dormitory kitchens - mostly five pound cans and bulk cereal boxes. Nobody has bothered to put anything else in the shelter yet.

• District: Pleasantdale Valley
• Can Be Sealed: Yes
• Ventilated: No
• Food Supplies: 280 man-days (canned food)
• Water Supplies: No
• Medical Supplies: No
• Other Supplies: No

Although a fallout shelter has been set up under the Founder's Hall, the Mayor, Irving Tuttleford, hasn't yet stocked it with necessities - technically, it's not his direct responsibility to do so, and doing so without approval would require spending money out of his own pocket. And that just wouldn't do. As such, much of what's currently in the shelter has been placed there by a staff member who intends on hiding in there themselves if things go south.

• District: Pleasantdale Valley
• Can Be Sealed: Yes
• Ventilated: Yes
• Food Supplies: 60 cans of food
• Water Supplies: 6 gallons of water
• Medical Supplies: 2 bottles of iodine and a large pack of bandaids
• Other Supplies: Smith and Wesson K-22 (.22LR revolver), loaded and wrapped in a blanket)

The Wharf Street Fallout Shelter is a public shelter made from a renovated basement underneath a warehouse owned by Mertz Imports, who has offered to make it available to the public; it is properly ventilated and sufficiently supplied to house 20 people for 14 days (the expected time needed to wait out fallout), although Mertz is actively requesting contributions from neighboring businesses to support more people. The amount of space provided should theoretically be sufficient to support up to 300 people in the event of a nuclear attack, but Mertz simply can't afford to support more than his own workforce.

• District: Harbor District
• Can Be Sealed: Yes [door can be barred]
• Ventilated: Yes
• Food Supplies: 280 man-days
• Water Supplies: 280 man-days
• Medical Supplies: Yes (enough to support 20 people)
• Other Supplies: Repair tools, baseball bats, welding torch, shotguns

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