Summit CERT - We're ready...Are you?

Neighborhood Cafe website about saving our fire and EMS service

2011-11-23T13:56:00.001-08:00

This is another website that gives more information about the issue and makes it easy to contact your supervisor.

Change.org petition to save 95033 fire and EMS service.

2011-11-23T13:51:00.000-08:00

Please sign this petition. The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors will vote on December 13th on a set of proposals, one of which is the elimination of the Santa Cruz County Fire Program.

LPFR Annual BBQ Fundraiser - Sunday June 5th 11am - 4 pm

2011-05-25T09:13:00.000-07:00

Ya'll come on out, see your neighbors, enjoy food, fun, and win great raffle prizes!

Logan Utah Block Captain Manual

2011-05-25T08:59:00.000-07:00

Seems like kind of a blend of CERT and MYN (Map Your Neighborhood)

Talking to Kids About Disasters

2011-03-11T09:35:00.000-08:00

These are tips from experts on how to talk to kids about the devastating reports and images of disasters they see or hear in the media.

Tsunami definitions

2011-03-11T08:46:00.000-08:00

In case you want to study up on the difference between Tsunami Warning, Advisory, Watch, and Information.

Snow Accumulation, Power Outages expected

2011-02-24T10:52:00.000-08:00

Click on the index label "preparedness" (to the right and scroll down a bit) to find links to FEMA and Red Cross suggestions for winter storm preparedness.

Free Community Emergecy Response Team Training

2010-08-26T10:39:00.000-07:00

Free Community Emergency Response Team classes are coming soon to our local mountain area thanks to the great firefighters at Loma Prieta Fire and Rescue.

These classes are open to all local residents. Don't let the word "Team" deter you. You are encouraged to take the classes even if you do not wish to join the team. It's part of our goal of creating a Culture of Preparedness here in our local mountain community.

You must attend all 3 full days of classes in order to graduate:
9 am - 5 pm each day
September 26, 2010
October 3, 2010
October 10, 2010

To sign up, email:
cert@lomaprietafire.org

Class size is limited to 20 participants, so hurry!

FEMA preparedness site, includes info on floods, storms

2010-01-20T10:25:00.000-08:00

After you click on the type of disaster (e.g. flood), you will see on the left a panel on what to do before, during, and after.

Storm Preparedness from the Red Cross

2010-01-20T10:17:00.000-08:00

This page offers some tips about how to stay safe during storms...floods, power outages.

6.5 magnitude earthquake hits the Eureka area, up north

2010-01-09T20:07:00.000-08:00

No time like the present to update your disaster supplies and plan.

After a week of earthquake activity on our local East Bay Calaveras Fault, a much larger quake hit the Eureka area up north.

SJMN Special Section on the Loma Prieta Earthquake

2009-10-13T07:49:00.000-07:00

Especially sobering is the pulitzer prize winning slideshow. One caption, from the disaster relief efforts in SF, said "volunteers outnumbered firefighters 10 to 1". It is great to know we have so many local citizens, potential volunteers (CERTs), who have had some training so that we can be safe while helping others.

Also, near the bottom, is a section about Los Gatos and mountains...there is an article about Jim Yoke (Saratoga CERT and Santa Clara County Fire) inspecting the mayor's house for earthquake readiness where Jim is quoted with THE major take-away message from all these anniversary remembrances:

"Loma Prieta was a big quake, but it wasn't the big quake," says Yoke, Santa Clara Fire Department's burly quake marshal, peeking behind one of the paintings attached to the living room wall with brackets. "I can't tell you how many times I've heard people say, 'I'll be all right. My house survived Loma Prieta just fine.' That's the top of the measuring stick in their minds."

Red Cross emergency specific readiness advice

2009-10-13T06:02:00.000-07:00

Many sources indicate that we may be in for an El Nino, very wet, storm season. This page at the National Red Cross website offers specific preparedness advice, including landslides, severe thunderstorms, etc. Be sure to see the pdf documents...they offer much more information than the "fast facts" on the left side of the page.

Reverse 911 for Santa Cruz County

2009-09-22T07:46:00.000-07:00

If you live in Santa Cruz County, go to this website to register your cell phone so you can get timely emergency information.

Reverse 911 for Santa Clara County residents

2009-09-22T07:39:00.000-07:00

Go to this website now to register your phones, email, pda's etc. so you can be contacted with vital emergency information.

Living With Fire

2009-09-22T07:13:00.000-07:00

Excellent, detailed document on living in wildfire-prone areas.

Cal Fire's 100 feet of Defensible Space Advice

2009-09-22T04:07:00.000-07:00

Fliers, checklists, videos, loads of info on preparing your home for the possibility of wildland fire.

October 17, 2009 - 20th Anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake

2009-09-22T03:46:00.000-07:00

Santa Cruz County CERTs will be marking the 20th anniversary with a drill in Aptos. Many other events are scheduled throughout the area.

CDC advice to Colleges and Students as Flu season approaches

2009-08-28T09:13:00.000-07:00

Parents and college students should read and be aware of issues and possible strategies for coping.

Flu Guidelines for the Workplace this Flu Season

2009-08-20T07:51:00.000-07:00

Keeping sick kids home from school will also be a critical social distancing strategy that helps control the spread of this Flu.

How long to stay home with the flu?

2009-08-07T08:01:00.000-07:00

H1N1 Swine Flu update from the CDC: This is important information for all citizens about how long to stay at home with a fever, diagnosed as swine flu or not, as we go into our flu season. Staying at home when sick will help prevent the spread of this pandemic flu (it is a novel/new virus, humans have no immunity to it, and it spreads easily).

The exclusion period: From the onset of flu-like illness, stay at home (and avoid close contact with others) for 24 hours AFTER your fever returns to normal, after you have stopped taking fever reducing medications.

"Sick individuals should stay at home until the end of the exclusion period, to the extent possible, except when necessary to seek required medical care. Sick individuals should avoid contact with others. Keeping people with a fever at home may reduce the number of people who get infected, since elevated temperature is associated with increased shedding of influenza virus. CDC recommends this exclusion period regardless of whether or not antiviral medications are used. People on antiviral treatment may shed influenza viruses that are resistant to antiviral medications."

Flu updates from the Center for Disease Control

2009-04-25T08:04:00.000-07:00

The CDC will update this site daily. Look to the right for more links to Flu Preparedness and Home Care. Below that, you will find Updates and News from local County health departments and other agencies.

Update Your Family Disaster Plan

2008-09-29T11:00:00.000-07:00

Click on the title to find some good resources for updating your family disaster plan.

Wildfire Preparedness Tips

2008-05-17T16:00:00.000-07:00

Detailed tips from the Red Cross. Print this out. Discuss and plan with your family.

It's Fire Season - in .pdf file

2008-05-17T15:41:00.000-07:00

Click on the title to get advice from CALFIRE on making our homes fire-safe.

3 day Preparedness Calendar - in .pdf file

2008-03-03T08:25:00.000-08:00

This calendar lets you take 6 months to build a 3 day supply kit.

American Red Cross Get Prepared Page

2008-03-03T07:17:00.000-08:00

Most of us know the 3 basic tenets of disaster preparedness. It is important to educate yourself about these. Be sure to click on the Red Cross link (title) to get important details.

1. Get prepared - Build a kit
The standard notion about disaster kits is that you need a 3 day supply of food and water for each member of your family in order to be self-sustaining. Mountain residents know that in the event of a major disaster, it might take even longer for help to arrive. Furthermore, current Pandemic Flu preparedness calls for a 2 week supply of food, water, and medicines. This can sound overwhelming. Consider 3 days your minimum level of preparedness, but work toward 14 days.

Look for links to Preparedness Calendars. These let you build your kit, little by little, over the course of 6 months.

2. Make a plan, talk about it with your family, practice it and more...

3. Be informed - know what hazards we might face, get training and more...