A follow-up question The Trio asks in connection with their NW blog of 9-11-10, is "Why Neighborhood Watch?" The following statement appears on the Petaluma Police Department's website: There can't be an officer on every block so citizen involvement is essential to combat crime. You and your neighbors are the [...]
The 7th Annual NPM sponsored by FEMA has been underway for a week and Petaluma ALERT is registered as one of a few thousand communities in the country that are planning events and activities that are designed to make the public more aware and informed about how to Be Ready [...]
Not to scare you! For the past several week, FEMA and Citizen Corps have been spreading the word about National Emergency Preparedness Month (September). 2010 will be the fourth year that Petaluma ALERT has participated, as a partner, by promoting CERT (Community Emergency Response Teams), NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Teams) [...]
The top three major problems during the response phase of Hurricane Katrina (2005), according to one government official were “Communications, Communications, Communications.” The ability to communicate, when most communication systems were inoperable, was the major reason PetalumaNet initiated a series of events and meetings (Sept.-Oct. 2005) that focused on how [...]
We started to blog about Emergency Preparedness on 3-21-06. After posting 52 blogs devoted to disaster readiness and preparedness, the "Trio" do not believe a majority of the citizens (not just Petalumans) are adequately informed or ready to cope with a mega-disaster, such as a 7.8 magnitude earthquake along the [...]
Hurricane Katrina spoke to us in 2005! Ike has sent the same message over the past few days from Texas. Once, again, thousands of families are without adequate food, water, or electric power. Many ways of communicating and calling for help were inoperable. Once, again, the basic question is - [...]
I just heard the official announcement changing the schedule for the Republican National Convention that was to begin in St. Paul (MN) on Monday; because of the pending emergency situation in the Gulf Coast region due to Hurricane Gustav. Here we go again, three years later. It's quite a coincidence [...]
Do you remember this lead sentence from Emergency Preparedness blog #32, posted 1-28-08? At first, "I" wasn't going to post any more reminders about "Being Prepared" for an emergency or natural disaster incident; but Eagle-Eyes woke "Me" up and flashed the following Press Democrat headlines which "Myself" also thought "we" [...]
At first, "I" wasn't going to post any more reminders about "Being Prepared" for an emergency or natural disaster incident; but Eagle-Eyes woke "Me" up and flashed the following Press Democrat headlines which "Myself" also thought "we" shouldn't ignore. (Are you able to follow this interaction among the group known [...]
Eagle-Eyes spotted the P.S. in my last blog (1-7-08), Did you notice the use of "concerned? It a hidden clue to a future blog." Here it is - The recent storms that hit Petaluma and Sonoma County caused a loss of electric power, here and there, for more than just [...]