Emergency Preparedness

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Wallingford Emergency Prep team meeting

We’re having a meeting to power up a Wallingford Emergency Preparations team. This team will help Wallingford prepare itself to withstand a major civil emergency (think long-term power outage, earthquake or sustained wildfires.) Volunteers in other Seattle neighborhoods have built a system of "Emergency Communication Hubs" to help their communities after a big event. Hubs coordinate "neighbors helping neighbors". A Wallingford team can help keep your neighbors well and safe. You are invited to join. We will get together to determine…

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Nisqually earthquake damage from KIRO7

Getting ready for The Big One

Seattle's Office of Emergency Management is presenting a series of webinars to detail how they will respond when a major earthquake comes our way. Note, we say WHEN, not IF. It's coming, we just don't know when. It's overdue, which makes us even more nervous. Recent research says that a rupture of the Seattle Fault, that runs east-west under Harbor Island and Beacon Hill, is likely to be more damaging to Seattle than the much discussed Cascadia Subduction Fault that runs…

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Clear Your Storm Drains – Get Rid of Leaves for Free

It's rainy season - do you know where your storm drains are? Thrill your neighbors and pedestrians by clearing leaves and debris from the storm drains on your block. Don't try to unclog the drain if the clog is below the grate: call SPU at 206-386-1800, then press 2 to report a clogged storm drain. Did you know? Food and yard waste subscribers can place leaves in their container. During the month of November, you are able to place additional bags…

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CPR & First Aid training at Senior Center

This Saturday, November 5 beginning at 9:00am, the Wallingford Community Senior Center (WCSC) will host Wallingford's first neighborhood-based CPR and First Aid training. The class is brought to you by the Wallingford Community Preparedness Initiative and will take place at the Wallingford Community Senior Center in the Good Shepherd Center (4649 Sunnyside Avenue North). The class begins at 9:00am and ends at 1:00pm, and from 1:00pm to 2:30 you can stay for an optional certification and testing. Kathleen Cromp over at the…

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Wallingford Rapture Survival Guide

It was just last May, this very weekend actually, that Mary Heim and a network of volunteer HAM radio operators tested the emergency communication network.  And I’m so glad they did!  Because we might need their help today. If you haven’t yet heard, the Rapture could happen on Saturday, May 21st.  By “Rapture” I mean the really scary end of times, the last days of the Antichrist, depicted in films like A Thief in the Night (1972).  Which I saw in…

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With the earthquake in Japan in the news these last days, I thought it might be a good time for an update on community preparedness planning in our own back yard. Nothing like a big disaster to get people's attention about making some basic preparations. You might be wondering what the headline has to do with this subject. One thing that emergency preparedness folks have realized over the past couple of years is that texting is often more successful than a…

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Wallingford Preparedness Week: Are you ready?

We’ve all been watching the devastation in Haiti and just yesterday the second crippling snowstorm that has paralyzed the Mid-Atlantic region and most of the Eastern seaboard.  I wonder how many of us have been thinking about getting an emergency kit set aside. You know, some water and food, maybe stash a crank flashlight and first aid kit with it. For the past couple of years, Sustainable Wallingford and the Wallingford Community Council, in partnership with the Seattle Office of Emergency…

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