RESOURCES & WEBINAR
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
Building Community and Meeting Needs Through Disaster Readiness in Neighborhoods
Map Your Neighborhood Campaign:
- First Responders' Presentation at MYN Fair on the need to prepare for emergencies.
- List of Methow Valley Neighborhoods
- Large map of the Methow Valley Neighborhoods
- Individual Maps (please let us know if you can't open them): http://mightyquin.net/Neighborhood_Maps/Neighborhood_Maps.html
- Washington State’s “Map Your Neighborhood” (MYN) flip chart and guide.
- Okanogan County Emergency Management's Power Point presentation explaining MYN, from training session
- Neighborhood Organization Toolkit - organizing and implementing MYN in your neighborhood.
- Downloads from our mentoring organization, Local 2020, to help you organize including checklists: www.l2020.org/index.php?page=downloads .
- Okanogan County Emergency Management contact: Glenda Beauregard, 509.422.7206, or email gbeauregard@co.okanogan.wa.us.
Webinar on Emergency Preparedness (first of two) given over the Internet, October 20 [Second webinar on November 17--we'll post the live version when it's available]
Preparing
- Reflective House Number Sign: Winthrop Firefighters
- "Step by Step Personal Emergency Preparedness Course" (Free) - GetEmergencyPrepared,
- For a 3-day emergency - www.govlink.org/3days3ways
- Pets - www.govlink.org/3days3ways/pets.html
- Home, neighborhood, school, business, children, and those with special needs
- PUD Winter Outage Handouts
- Flood Safety Information, State of Washington
- Okanogan County Fire District 6
Gathering Things You'll Need
- All radio stations give Emergency Broadcasts and you can get a NOAA radio too : Weather Alert AM FM Dynamo NOAA Radio from Real Goods.com
- More Emergency/Safety Radios NPR and REI
[Sites suggested by Methow Valley Residents, not necessarily endorsed by MV CPC]
