Tag: Community Resilience
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Upcoming volunteer/learning opportunities!
(See calendar for full details of each event. ALL upcoming events can be found HERE!) North Capitol Hill – Hub Drill – Sunday, August 27th Volunteers needed to staff Hub positions, set up and tear down and to be actors. 2:15pm station set up; 3-5pm public portion; 5-6pm strike and debrief. Sign up HERE .…
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Camping Hacks Version 2
If you’ve been a camper, you know that sometimes things don’t go as planned. You’re always having to invent or make do in a situation where a critical piece of gear was left at home, or the weather didn’t cooperate or …. Turns out camping is the perfect training ground for disasters, figuring out how…
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Picture of how the Hubs work
During the COVID-19 stay at home period, multiple efforts got underway to clean up our hub files and make the Hub Captains book more organized. We have created this graphic to illustrate how the hub works and how information is organized. 2020 Hub Areas and Roles
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South Seattle Home Fair
The second Seattle Home Fair was just as successful as the north end version. We met lots of people who were interested taking steps to make their home prepared and safe and in personal preparedness. Mel and Vilma Fernandez, Susan Sanders and Ron Angeles were very busy!
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Hubs at Home Shows
In both January and February, the City of Seattle sponsors a “Home Show” intended to give homeowners information about many aspects of home improvement and sustainability. While about half of the information tables are from the city, including inspections and permitting info, there’s a strong focus on sustainability with information tables about insurance, home retrofit…
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Hubs at Multiple Community Events This Summer
Hubs at multiple community events this summer Want to connect with your local hub and hub captain? Watch our calendar for information about which community festivals and events we will be at with information tables. We really want to meet people who are interested in community and personal preparedness; we learn best from each other…
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Why we do field exercises
Hub Practice Sessions It’s a lot of work to do a hub practice session, getting out the field and practicing for a disaster. There’s time spent creating the scenario and exercise design itself, and there’s a huge investment of people time and energy on the day of the exercise. Why do we bother? Well, because…
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Disaster Skills Training – in Vietnamese
Kudos to the Seattle Office of Emergency Management for offering disaster preparedness training classes in multiple languages. In March, they taught a Disaster Skills class in Cantonese and in April one will be offered in Vietnamese at the High Point Library. FEMA has advocated for a “whole community” approach to disaster preparedness and engaging the…
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March training events
There is a LOT of interest in emergency preparedness now! In March, the hubs will be involved with 7 local organizing and training sessions. Many thanks to those Hub Captains and neighborhood groups who are sponsoring these sessions and to the city’s Office of Emergency Management for coordinating the instructors for training. In the Central…