Your family may not be together when disaster strikes, so it is important to plan in advance: how you will contact one another; how you will get back together; and what you will do in different situations. Family Emergency Plan Identify an out-of town contact. It may be easier to make a long-distance phone call than to...read more
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Flooding- On the Rise
The devastation and dramatic impact floods have on communities is underestimated by those who have never experienced one. The power of water and lethal consequences of NOT paying attention to local weather and community emergency warnings can be dire. Review the following statistics to better understand what flooding has done and can do to our lives. FLOOD FACTS 1.)...read more
Earthquake
Earthquake-Northridge 1994
The 1994 Northridge Earthquake. This professional recap reminds us of the power and instantaneous devastation Earthquakes pose. Before dawn a magnitude 6.7 earthquake stunned the Southern California area known as the San Fernando Valley. Jarred from a sound sleep, many people floundered around just to get their bearings while everything around them shook and rocked. My family and...read more
Information Resources
Nov 9 Emergency Alert System TEST
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will conduct the first nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS). The national test will occur on Wednesday, November 9 at 2:00 PM ET/11:00 AM PT and will last 30 seconds. The EAS is a national alert...read more
