Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Response

Proposals: Active

• Pandemic Flu: Neighbor helping neighbor: simplifying/facilitating the neighbors getting supplies for sick families. Help them and eliminate pressure for them to break self-isolation.
• Disaster Preparedness Proposal :
  Draft outline for consideration by Palo Alto Neighborhoods (PAN) Committee on Disaster Preparedness/Response. Focuses on earthquakes and similar natural disasters. Was not drafted to include pandemic influenza or WMD/NBC attacks.

Preparedness and Response

• Terminology and Quotes
• Background, perspective, politics,...

Other Resources - Block Leader manuals

• City of Cupertino - Block Leader Binder
  • Table of Contents
  • Orientation: Block Leader Program
  • Neighborhood Block Leader
  • Organizing Your Neighborhood
• City of San Mateo, Office of Emergency Services
  • CERT Neighborhood Captain
  • Emergency Prevention and Safety (nice organization)
  • Cooperation of Police and Fire in CERT/NW training (page 4, next to last paragraph)
• City of Atherton
  • Pocket Guide to Emergency Preparedness
  • Resident Handbook
• City of Menlo Park
  • Disaster Preparedness Manual
• Other links (minimally organized)

Archival

• Golden Guardian Exercise 2007
• Failure of earlier telephone alerting system (Teleminder) and Discussion of how to make better use of email lists
• Palo Alto REDI (Resources for Emergency and Disasters Initiative)
  • Locally hosted documents

Drafts

• Resident Readiness