National Preparedness Month has been held in September, annually, to encourage Americans to take the proper steps toward preparation for disasters in their homes, their neighborhoods, businesses, schools, and recreation areas. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security sponsors National Preparedness Month and distributes disaster preparedness information to all American communities. [...]
Just a friendly reminder to "Be Ready" and "Prepared" for any type of disaster that might occur in the Bay Area. Although most residents don't think a major disaster like an earthquake will happen soon, there have been a series of major storms and floods elsewhere in the country. Sooner [...]
In his "Disaster Preparedness & Recovery" blog, posted 2-1-12, FEMA administrator Craig Fugate highlighted three emergency management lessons he believed were learned from the many disasters that occurred in 2011. #1- Not all disasters come with warnings. Regardless of the type of disaster (flood, tornado, hurricane, earthquake), we need to [...]