ABC “Emergency Preparedness Links” from our General Meeting on July 21, 2021

We learned steps to protect our family and home with “Emergency Preparedness”:
* Eugene City Councilor for Ward 8 and former Fire Chief Randy Groves spoke about the importance of being prepared,
* We learned how to create our own Family plan,
* Fill our Go-bags,
* Sign up for EWEB’s Pledge to Prepare,
* Matt Albertson spoke about Emergency Communication,
* We learned how to prepare our home for Wildfire Defensible Space,
* Know where to find Your Evacuation Zone from the link,
* We learned about and/or Volunteer to Map Your Neighborhood & set up your Neighborhood Watch group.

Explore these “Emergency Preparedness Links” from our ABC General Meeting on July 21:

(There may be duplicates as I have included ALL the links that were provided to us.)

Make Your Family Plan: https://www.ready.gov/plan

For Building your Kit/Go-bag: https://www.ready.gov/kit

EWEB 12-month Pledge to Prepare: http://www.eweb.org/outages-and-safety/preparing-for-emergencies/pledge-to-prepare-campaign

Wildfires / Defensible Space: https://www.ready.gov/wildfires#prepare

https://www.ready.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/home-builder-guide-construction-defensible-space.pdf

https://www.venetaoregon.gov/publicsafety/page/creating-maintaining-defensible-space

https://www.ashland.or.us/Files/FlammablePlantList_al.pdf


Know your Evacuation Zone (enter your address in the link to find out your zone):

https://eugene-pwe.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=99030ba72efe46b2a5c0bb31ccf55004


Map Your Neighborhood information: https://www.eugene-or.gov/1177/Neighborhoods

https://mil.wa.gov/map-your-neighborhood (Washington state started this program)

Neighborhood Watch program: https://www.eugene-or.gov/DocumentCenter/View/56619/Eugene-Police-Department-Neighborhood-Watch-Packet-8-28-20
 

Links to Important Information from City Councilor and former Fire Chief Randy Groves:

Resources:·City of Eugene Emergency Preparedness –
https://www.eugene-or.gov/1176/Personal-Preparedness

·Lane County Emergency Preparedness – https://www.lanecounty.org/government/county_departments/health_and_human_services/public_health/preparedness

·Lane County – Sign up for emergency notifications – https://lanecounty.org/government/county_departments/lane_county_emergency_management/sign_up_for_emergency_notifications

·EWEB Emergency Preparedness – http://www.eweb.org/outages-and-safety/preparing-for-emergencies

·Northwest Natural Emergency Preparedness – https://www.nwnatural.com/safety/emergency-preparedness

Free FEMA Emergency Preparedness Publications·https://www.ready.gov/publications

Emergency Preparedness Kit:·Tips for building a budget friendly preparedness kit – https://www.eugene-or.gov/DocumentCenter/View/21114/Tips-for-Building-a-Budget-friendly-kit?bidId=

·Emergency Supply List – https://www.eugene-or.gov/DocumentCenter/View/34437/SupplyCalendarBrochure2015?bidId=

Emergency Phone Numbers:

EMERGENCY call 9-1-1

Non-Emergency call 541-682-5111

Lane County Emergency Management (sign up to receive notifications):

https://lanecounty.org/government/county_departments/lane_county_emergency_management

Emergency Alerts & Apps:

https://eugene-or.gov/3687/Emergency-Information:
 National Weather Service
 TripCheck Travel Conditions
 Flash Alert Newswire
 Earthquake Mobile App

https://eugene-or.gov/list.aspx (scroll down to Alerts for Emergency Alerts)

American Red Cross Apps:
 Emergency
 Earthquake
 First Aid
 Pet First Aid


Hazard Situation Overview Maps:
https://geo.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=cdf61542ff574df797bdae784992cc44
 

Alerting Tools   (Resources in hyperlinks)

Alerting Tools for emergency information in Lane Co, Ore.

YouTube, 66 min Zoom edit from two-hour meeting July 15, 2021 with Patence Winningham-Melcher speaking at “How Alert Are We?” with the Eugene Neighborhoods’ Preparedness Network (ENPN).

Lane County website Evacuation Information has a link to sign up for AlertSense, as well as the Evacuation and Alerts brochure to download.

Presentation PDFs: Alerting Tools, outreach slides  with live links.

Eugene area fire officials have released an interactive
Evacuation Zone Map from Eugene Springfield Fire

FEMA Heads-up:  8/11 Test of National Emergency Alert System 
(1 min EAS test described in 3 min video)

“Preparing Your Digital Go-Bag” FAN talk notes on Alerts & Apps, 2019

Prep Your Phone  – organizing contacts for you and others, etc.

Eugene Neighborhoods’ Preparedness Network, ENPN Info

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