As stated in Emergency Preparedness Blog #25 - "Stay tuned, the R.Q. averages for zip codes 94952 and 94954 will be released this weekend." OK, so we a week late; but we wanted to allow time for the "Prepare Petaluma Forum" to be held first - which was last Thursday. [...]
September 2007 was our 4th Annual National Emergency Preparedness Month. Eighteen hundred organizations sponsored over 1,000 events designed to motivate the American people to "Get Ready" and to prepare for emergencies from natural disasters to terrorist attacks. Here in Petaluma, our Alliance for Local Emergency Response Teams (ALERT) sponsored or [...]
A recent press release titled, "Americans must be ready in event of a disaster," quoted Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff as follows: "Clearly, when it comes to disaster preparation and response, millions of Americans remain in a state of denial - precisely when risks appear to be rising- First responders [...]
As most Petaluma360 readers know, September has been declared National Emergency Preparedness Month by Homeland Security and Citizen Corps. Petaluma ALERT (Alliance of Local Emergency Response Teams) has planned several EP events and activities, such as: four Neighborhood Emergency Response Team meetings (NERTs), and three Farmers Market booths that [...]
It was predictable! With so much going on in our favorite river town (Relay for Life, Farmers Market, Coastal Clean Up, Heritage Homes Awards), how could any concerned citizen desert his community in order to clean out the garage? Me, Myself & I have decided that WE must continue [...]
It's been a month since my "Adjusting our sails for a new direction" blog was posted. (Oh, BTW, the cleaning up the garage project has stalled.) Nevertheless, the vision for PetalumaNET (2.0) is still being formulated, and it just might see the light of day by next month. In the [...]
I thought I was being clever (actually, it was Hammerhead) when I posted two blogs with catchy quotes: Let's 'Ham-It Up' at the Fair! and Hammerhead is becoming a real 'Ham-bone.' Eagle-Eyes didn't think the use of term "Ham-bone" was appropriate, considering everything that "Hams" (or licensed amateur radio operators) [...]
About a month ago (3-5-07), I posted "Emergency Preparedness #12 - CERT + NERT + ALERT + STAR," which reported on the Sonoma County-wide "CERT Challenge- 2007," which involved a team of eight volunteer community emergency response trained volunteers from Petaluma. Earlier today, another group of volunteers from the [...]
Deadline - San Francisco - 02/07/07 - RSA Security Conference Headline - The time to plan for a disaster is now! Quotes - Do not count on government. You need to be self-sufficient. The government isn't going to save you. I don't mean to pick on government agencies, but [...]
It's been awhile since my last blog - why? Did I run out of topics to "talk" about? Did somebody finally get this blogger to "shut up?" The answer is, "none of the above." But, I did get a "new name.As of November 16, according to the FCC (Federal Communications [...]