Public Health ESF 8 Spring Briefing
2016-03-31 10:00 - 23:30 (America/Vancouver) | American Red Cross, 1900 25th Avenue South, Seattle, WA, 98144, United States
(Open to Hub people) Public Health—Seattle & King County is pleased to announce the topics for the Spring 2016 King County Emergency Support Function 8 briefing for local emergency managers, healthcare partners, community-based organizations and public health information officers.
These biannual briefings feature updates on plans, research and other issues that Public Health is addressing to ensure that King County is prepared for an ESF 8 emergency response. Please join us at the upcoming briefing, which will include presentations on:

Our transition of the vulnerable populations work to the new Community Resilience + Equity Program
Administrative preparedness
A new direction for alternate care planning
Public Health Reserve Corps and workforce mobilization
An update on the Zika virus

Target audience: Local emergency managers, healthcare partners, community-based organizations, public and private sector responders.
To register, please visit: KingCountyESF8Spring2016.Eventbrite.com
We hope to see you there!

Communications Academy
2016-04-09 - 2016-04-10 | South Seattle College, 6000 16th Ave SW, Seattle , WA, 98106, United States
Theme for 2016’s Academy will be: “Are We Ready – for “The Big One”? “
Two days of training and information on various aspects of emergency communications. Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES©); Auxiliary Communications Service (ACS); EOC Support Teams; Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES), Civil Air Patrol, Coast Guard Auxiliary, REACT, CERT and anyone interested in emergency communications should attend. Learn, network, and share your experiences with others.
The Communications Academy is open to anyone with an interest in emergency communications, volunteer or professional. The presentations are designed to promote the development of knowledgeable, skilled emergency communicators who will support their local communities during a disaster or emergency response.

Preparing for the Big One
2016-05-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave. N, Seattle, WA, 98103, United States
What to do when the “really” big one’ hits. Are you prepared for the next big earthquake and other disasters Seattle could face? Attend this presentation to hear from local emergency management experts about what you can do to get prepared. Learn about the City’s new emergency alert and notification system – AlertSeattle – and bring questions to ask during an open Q & A session.

Cascadia Rising 2016 Regional Drill
2016-06-07 - 2016-06-10 | City Departments
Stay tuned for details about how the region, state, county, city and the hubs will be participating in the large scale drill.

Disaster Skills Training
2016-08-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Rainier Beach Community Center, 8825 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
This workshop provides training on key skills needed after a disaster and more in depth instruction on key preparedness actions. This workshop covers the following:
* Water Storage and Purification * Earthquake Proofing your Home (Securing furniture and heavy objects) *Utility Control * Fire Extinguisher Use

Please register at https://goo.gl/0tCd09

Lake City Family Walk Hub Stop
2016-09-17 10:00 - 13:00 | Lake City Hub, 13000 Lake City Way NE (SE corner of lower parking lot), Seattle, WA, 98125, United States
The Children’s Home Society is sponsoring a neighborhood walk of Lake City, to introduce families and children to the resources in their community. One of the stops will be the Lake City Hub, where the kids will get to do an activity with Paw Patrol stickers and the Wheel of Misfortune to ask them questions about being safe and prepared. Stop by and check it out!
Family Walk Flyer

Alki Summer Greenways, Disaster Relief Trials
2016-09-25 10:00 - 16:00 | Locations to be announced
Watch cargo bikes move equipment as though a disaster has struck Seattle and we need to move supplies though out the West Seattle peninsula. It’s a challenging 30 mile route that will be revealed to participants the day of the event. We will list the West Seattle Hubs who will host a cargo change stop once the route is determined. The Auxiliary Communications Service ham radio operators will provide course support, so you can also watch the ham radio network in action.

Delridge Projects Workshop and Community Resource Fair
2016-10-08 09:30 - 12:00 | Southwest Teen Life Center, 2801 S Thistle St., Seattle, WA, 98126, United States
This is a Community Resource Fair and a workshop which will have public review of two major city projects in the Delridge neighborhood, the North Delridge Action Plan and the Delridge Multimodal Corridor Transportation Project. The Resource Fair will have tables from community groups in and around the Delridge area, and the North Delridge Hub will have a table. Stop by and learn about that hub and learn more about emergency preparedness work in Delridge.

'Big Shaker' Earthquake Event
2016-10-11 00:00 | Westlake Park, 401 Pine St, Seattle, WA, 98101, United States
Seattle’s Office of Emergency Management and Seattle Parks and Recreation invite members of the public and media to attend the City’s first ever, ‘Big Shaker’ Earthquake Event at Westlake Park on Tuesday, Oct. 11.
The ‘Big Shaker’ is a 22’ foot-long, 6,500-pound earthquake simulator that gives participants the opportunity to experience the shaking of a simulated 8.0 earthquake.
More than 100 members of the public will also have the opportunity to step into the ‘Big Shaker’. Tickets will be distributed to the public at Westlake Park on the day of the event and are on a first come, first served basis. Tickets for riding in the ‘Big Shaker’ between the hours of 10 a.m. and noon will be passed out at 9:30 a.m. Tickets for riding between noon and 2 p.m. will be distributed at 11:30 a.m.
In addition to riding in the ‘Big Shaker’, several City departments and vendors, including QuakeHold, will be present to give participants the opportunity to:
• Learn how to build an emergency kit, make a disaster plan and help each other
• Hear about how to get involved neighborhood and community preparedness (including Hubs and Seattle Auxiliary Communication Service tables)
• Practice shutting off utilities
• Play fun preparedness games and win prizes
For information on Seattle’s earthquake risk and how to get prepared for disasters, visit the Seattle Office of Emergency Management’s website. http://www.seattle.gov/emergency-management

Eastlake Disaster Prep "Are You Ready For the Zombies?"
2016-10-26 19:00 - 20:30 | College Club, 11 Allison St, Seattle, WA, 98102, United States
Are you ready for a disaster, a bad storm or the zombie invasion? Not sure where to get started? Join us to hear an overview of the hazards that can impact Seattle, and steps that individuals and families can take to become more prepared to deal with them. This includes guidance on how to develop a disaster plan, build a disaster supply kit, and organize with your neighbors to become better prepared. The presentation also provides an overview of other OEM efforts including the SNAP program, Community Emergency Hubs, and the City’s new alert and notification system, Alert Seattle.
RSVP at: bit.ly/eastlakeprep

Disaster Skills - Basic Aid
2016-11-15 18:00 - 20:00 | SLU Discovery Center, 101 Westlake Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
Learn how to are for and respond to injuries after a major disaster when 9-1-1 is overwhelmed or unavailable. Provides practice on how to recognize and treat life-threatening conditions, how to conduct a patient assessment and how to creatively use household items as first aid materials.
*** Course does not meet the requirements for first aid certification.
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED Go to www.seattle.gov/emergency-management. Click on Upcoming Events on the right side of the page to go to registration form.

Earthquake Home Retrofit Class
2016-12-03 13:00 - 15:00 | Broadview Library, 12755 Greenwood Ave N., Seattle, WA, United States
Help reduce damage caused during an earthquake. Learn to become an informed consumer or how to do home retrofit yourself. Retrofit experts will show how to assess your home’s needs and how to use the City of Seattle’s pre-engineered Home Retrofit plans to permit and retrofit your home. Register early space is limited!

Stop The Bleed Class
2016-12-10 09:00 - 12:00, 2017-01-28 09:00 - 12:00, 2017-01-28 13:00 - 16:00, 2017-02-18 09:00 - 12:00, 2017-02-18 13:00 - 16:00, 2017-03-18 09:00 - 12:00, 2017-03-18 13:00 - 16:00 | Harborview, 300 Ninth Ave, Seattle, WA, 98104, United States
Will you be ready?
A person who is bleeding can die from blood loss within five minutes. Emergency responders will arrive as quickly as possible, but bystanders are almost always there first. In the case of disaster and high casualty incidents, emergency services are often spread thin.
Stop the Bleed!
Blood loss is the leading cause of preventable death in multiple casualty events, like mass shootings, terrorist attacks and earthquakes. Significant external bleeding can also result from everyday events such as a motorcycle crash, or industrial accident. Rapid control of bleeding at the scene of the event can be life-saving. That’s why we’re teaming up with Harborview Medical Center, the American College of Surgeons Washington State Committee on Trauma, and Seattle and King County EMS to ensure that:

Bystanders have skills and knowledge to provide immediate bleeding control to victims at the scene of an event.
Bleeding control supplies are located in all public gathering locations next to Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs).
Bleeding control education is incorporated into our schools and workplace.
People know what to do in an active shooter situation

Earthquake Home Retrofit Class
2017-01-07 13:00 - 15:00 | Phinney Center (Blue Building), 6532 Phinney Ave. N, Seattle, WA, 98103, United States
Help reduce damage caused during an earthquake. Learn to become an informed consumer or how to do home retrofit yourself. Retrofit experts will show how to assess your home’s needs and how to use the City of Seattle’s pre-engineered Home Retrofit plans to permit and retrofit your home. Register early space is limited

Earthquake Home Retrofit Class
2017-02-04 13:30 - 15:00 | Phinney Center (Blue Building), 6532 Phinney Ave. N, Seattle, WA, 98103, United States
Help reduce damage caused during an earthquake. Learn to become an informed consumer or how to do home retrofit yourself. Retrofit experts will show how to assess your home’s needs and how to use the City of Seattle’s pre-engineered Home Retrofit plans to permit and retrofit your home. Register early space is limited Call Phinney Center to register 206-783-2244

Disaster Skills Workshop
2017-02-08 18:00 - 20:00 | American Red Cross, 1900 25th Avenue South, Seattle, WA, 98144, United States
This workshop provides training on key skills needed after a disaster and more in depth instruction on key preparedness actions.

Fire Extinguisher Use
Utility Control
Water Storage and Purification

Register at https://goo.gl/3lyxeW

Protect Your Home From Landslides and Earthquakes
2017-02-11 10:00 - 14:00 | Filipino Community Center, 5740 ML King Jr Way S, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
The City of Seattle is hosting two upcoming presentations on February 11 to help you prepare for an emergency. Our landslide awareness presentation will explain how you can prevent landslides on your property. Our earthquake retrofit presentation covers what you need to do to help your home survive an earthquake.
Presentation Schedule:

10:30 – 11:30 a.m. – Earthquake Retrofit
Earthquake retrofit expert Tony Holder will give an overview of how Seattle’s geology can make your home vulnerable to damage during an earthquake. The presentation will discuss how to assess your house to see if it needs to be retrofitted. We’ll also explain how to retrofit your home, including a brief overview of the permitting process.

11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. – Landslide Awareness
Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Dean Griswold, P.E., will explain why landslides happen and where landslides typically occur in Seattle. He will explain how to determine if your property is in a landslide-prone area, preventative measures you can take to protect your property from landslides, and who to call in case of a landslide.

These presentations are part of the South Seattle Home Fair (February 11, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., at the Filipino Community Center). In addition to the above presentations, the City, along with local organizations, are offering free one-on-one Q&A sessions to discuss services and answer questions. We’ll have information about emergency management, rental housing, affordable housing, raingardens, building permits, building and electrical inspections, code requirements, and much more.
Habitat for Humanity, Home Sight, Rebuilding Together Seattle, Southeast Seattle Tool Library, Office of Emergency Management, the Seattle Emergency Communications Hubs, and many others will also be on hand to answer questions.

Earthquake Home Retrofit class
2017-03-05 14:00 - 16:00 | Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave. N, Seattle, WA, 98103, United States
Learn to become an informed consumer or how to do home retrofit yourself. Retrofit experts will show how to assess your home’s needs and how to use the City of Seattle’s pre-engineered Home Retrofit plans to permit and retrofit your home. Register early space is limited!
Register by calling Phinney Center at 206-783-2244

Beacon Emergency Action Network Community Event
2017-03-25 10:00 - 13:00 | Jefferson Community Center, 3801 Beacon Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98144, United States
The Beacon Hill area is seriously under–represented in terms of community emergency hubs, and the Beacon Emergency Action Network (BEAN) is asking you to join us to help bring our neighborhood the healthy resiliency we deserve. It’s been proven that neighborhoods where people are connected survive and thrive when things fall apart.

BEAN is a grassroots movement and it begins with neighbor–to–neighbor introductions. Our drop–in meeting is your chance to sign up to commit you and your neighbors to our newly forming Emergency Network. Local information will be provided to help you and your families and neighbors begin the process of creating safety networks.

Meet representatives from Seattle preparedness programs: Seattle Neighbors Actively Prepare (SNAP), the Seattle Emergency Communications Hubs, HAM radio operators and others to get information on how you can learn about alternative methods of communication, safe spaces, and other subjects. Translation services provided.

Disaster Skills: Basic Aid
2017-03-25 10:30 - 12:30 | Douglas-Truth Library, 2300 E Yesler Way, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Learn how to care for and respond to injuries after a major disaster when 9-1-1 is overwhelmed or unavailable. This session provides guidance on how to recognize and treat life-threatening conditions, how to conduct a patient assessment and how to creatively use household items as first aid materials. Class does not meet requirements for certification.
Register at https://goo.gl/4O4LBS

Disaster Book Club - "Full Rip 9.0"
2017-04-05 18:00 - 19:30 | Capitol Hill Branch Library, 425 Harvard Ave E, Seattle, WA, 98102, United States
This month the Seattle Office of Emergency Management is reading “Full-Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest.” Author and Seattle Times Science Reporter, Sandi Doughton, will be at our first meeting to discuss earthquakes. Representatives from Seattle Office of Emergency Management will be there to answer preparedness questions and facilitate discussion. Don’t forget to pick up your copy of “Full-Rip 9.0” at The Seattle Public Library!

Ham Radio License Class (session 1 of 2)
2017-04-08 08:00 - 17:00 | Issaquah City Hall, 130 East Sunset Way, Issaquah, WA, 98027, United States
(First of two session, the second session will be on April 15)
Members of the Mike & Key Amateur Radio club hold amateur radio license classes several times a year. These classes normally are held on two consecutive Saturdays, with the test on the afternoon of the second Saturday. The classes have a very high pass rate on the exams (around 99%). If you have thought at all about getting a ham license, this is one of the easiest, and surest, ways to do so.

The classes are free, but there is a $15 charge to take the test. That offsets the cost of administering the tests and sending the results to the FCC.

If you wish to sign up for one of these classes, please send an email to KL7WM@aol.com with the dates you wish to attend, and your contact information. Daniel can also be reached by phone at 206-228-9274

Disaster Skills: Light Search and Rescue
2017-04-10 18:00 - 20:30 | American Red Cross, 1900 25th Avenue South, Seattle, WA, 98144, United States
Registration is required. Please register at goo.gl…
This training provides an overview of light search and rescue skills and basic rescuer safety. When first responders are overwhelmed, residents may apply some of these techniques to help those around them in need.
This Workshop covers the following topics:
-Rescuer safety
-Basic search techniques
-Basic rescue techniques (lifts, carries, cribbing).

Ham Radio License Class (session 2 of 2)
2017-04-15 08:00 - 17:00 | Issaquah City Hall, 130 East Sunset Way, Issaquah, WA, 98027, United States
(the first session in this series is April 8)
Members of the Mike & Key Amateur Radio club hold amateur radio license classes several times a year. These classes normally are held on two consecutive Saturdays, with the test on the afternoon of the second Saturday. The classes have a very high pass rate on the exams (around 99%). If you have thought at all about getting a ham license, this is one of the easiest, and surest, ways to do so.

There are classes scheduled in April in both Issaquah and Ballard. See the information below for specific dates and locations. The classes are free, but there is a $15 charge to take the test. That offsets the cost of administering the tests and sending the results to the FCC.

If you wish to sign up for one of these classes, please send an email to KL7WM@aol.com with the dates you wish to attend, and your contact information. Daniel can also be reached by phone at 206-228-9274
