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 we think muscle […]
Read More »Kudos to the Seattle Office of Emergency Management for offering disaster preparedness training classes in multiple languages. In March, they taught a Disaster Skills class in Cantonese and in April one will be offered in Vietnamese at the High Point Library. FEMA has advocated for a “whole community” approach to disaster preparedness and engaging the […]
Read More »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 […]
Read More »KING 5 has been interviewing people throughout Seattle on the topic of how well people and government agencies are prepared for a major disaster. Advertising has been that they will focus messaging on Monday, July 21 “all day, all screens”. They have also started releasing some background information early, please visit this link for 8 […]
Read More »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. […]
Read More »The Seattle Office of Emergency Management has posted 3 new videos designed to help residents learn how to be prepared to shut off utilities or to use a fire extinguisher. Remember that you should only shut off your gas if you smell the “rotten eggs” odor of a gas leak. Once you shut off the […]
Read More »We will be holding a table top exercise on Saturday, April 29, from 9:00 am to noon. The purpose of the exercise is to test run new Universal Communications Cards being developed for our use. These cards are intended to help communications with people who’s first language is not English, people with speech difficulties, people […]
Read More »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 […]
Read More »More equipment in more places! Thanks to the Seattle City Council, $18,000 was set aside to purchase hub boxes and start up supplies for hubs in 2016. The Office of Emergency Management and Department of Neighborhoods created the application process and received multiple applications to fund new and existing locations. Here’s the list of the […]
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