Tag: Seattle Emergency Hub
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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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Seattle Hubs on Seattle Growth Podcast
Cindi Barker, Hub Captain for the Morgan Junction Hub and one of the very early members of the Seattle Emergency Communications Hubs network, was interview by Jeffery Shulman for his Seattle Growth Podcast. It’s at http://seattlegrowthpodcast.com/s6-ep-6-finding-community-in-emergency-prep-and-dance/ or S6 Ep. 6 on iTunes. The Hubs segment is in the first half of the podcast “Today’s episode…
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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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2018 Plans
We had a great Hub Leadership Retreat in early Feb and have confirmed what our plans are for 2018. We will be holding our Hub Captain Meetings every other month (March, May, July, Sept, Nov), so that Hub Captains have more time to arrange for local meetings, trainings or work planning. We shifted…
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The story behind the gap
We’re so sorry that the blog posting slowed down this fall, but there’s a good reason. After the semi-official “take August off for vacations” we got busy on projects and so there was more “doing” than there was “telling”. During the fall we worked on a budget proposal for another round of funding the Hub…
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Hub and ACS drill – July 29, 2017 – Cascadia Rising II – Hubs and Spokes
Mark your calendars! Sharpen your pencils! Spiff up your acting skills! We are taking to the field again in July to practice our response skills – this time it will be a continuation of the Cascadia Rising Subduction Zone earthquake, on day six after “the big one”. 11 Hubs across the city will be participating.…
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Beacon Hill Community Preparedness Event
Beacon Emergency Awareness Network (BEAN) hosts Preparedness Fair. If you live in Beacon Hill, you know that most of the ways to get on and off the hill are by bridges. What would you do if those bridges go down in an earthquake? Would you know how to get information? Are you prepared to be…
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What a year it was – 2016 in review
Seattle Emergency Communications Hubs Activity Report 2016 Our Hub Captains and the Hubs were very busy in 2016. Here is our year end summary as we get ready for another busy year ahead. Major Accomplishments Worked with Office of Emergency Management and Dept of Neighborhoods to establish an award process for the “Hub in…
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“Hub in Box” Funding Process Released
Thanks to the Seattle City Council and with the advocacy of the Seattle Office of Emergency Management and the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, The Hub in a Box application has been finalized and the application period is open now until Oct 28. It is now posted on the OEM website: http://www.seattle.gov/emergency-management/working-together/community-emergency-hubs This is a new program that will…