Stay Safe This Winter Winter is a few days away, but here in Northern California we are already experiencing winter weather. Low temperatures, heavy rain, snow, and power outages are all harsh realities that winter brings. In the midst of a winter storm, most people’s main goal is to remain warm. But, often times the ways people stay warm can … Read More
Fire and Life Safety in Mercantile Properties
Be Safe While Shopping This Holiday Season The Holiday Season is here which means that people will be flooding to mercantile properties to get all of the best Black Friday deals. NFPA describes mercantile properties as, “an assortment of different types of stores, facilities providing personal services such as barber and beauty shops, laundry or dry cleaning shops, service stations, … Read More
How to Prepare Your Home for Wildfires
Protect Your Property Using the Home Ignition Zone Throughout October and these first few days of November, California has been battling wildfires. And the parts of the state that haven’t been on fire have been under wildfire watch. After the town of Paradise was decimated by the Camp fire last year, many people in Northern California are more aware than … Read More
Fire Prevention Week
October 6-12 2019 This year’s NFPA Fire Prevention Week theme is “Not Every Hero Wears a Cape. Plan and Practice Your Escape!” This theme touches on what it means to be a hero and how important it is to have a fire escape plan. Not Every Hero Wears a Cape The first part of 2019’s theme talks about the different … Read More
Hurricane Season
Be Prepared During Hurricane Season National Preparedness Month is over and we are in the middle of peak hurricane season. Hurricane Dorian has already wreaked havoc on the Bahamas and threatened the southeast coastline of the United States and this is just the start. Over the next few months we need to prepare to have more hurricanes damage our country … Read More
Community Preparedness
Help Out Locally For our last week of National Preparedness Month we will be talking about how important it is to prepare for disasters as a community. This preparation can happen on a small or large scale, but it is important nonetheless. What Disasters Effect Your Community One of the first things that you can do when working on community … Read More
Youth Preparedness
Prepare Your Child for an Emergency It can be difficult to prepare kids for disasters. Especially because they cannot fully understand the severity of disastrous situations. This is why youth preparedness is so important. As week 3’s topic of National Preparedness Month, Ready.gov has some great tips for how to prepare your child for a disaster. Preparing Your Child One … Read More
Emergency Evacuation Plan
National Preparedness Month In last week’s blog post we talked about how September is National Preparedness Month. This month is sponsored by FEMA and Ready.gov to spread the word about how important it is to be prepared in the event of an emergency. Throughout the month 4 different topics are touched upon; save early for disaster costs, make a plan … Read More
National Preparedness Month
Be Prepared Not Scared September is National Preparedness Month. This year FEMA and Ready.org has centered the theme around being, “Prepared Not Scared”. This theme focuses on the importance of making sure that you are prepared in the event of an emergency. When you are prepared you are more likely to be less frightened in the event of an emergency. … Read More
Fire and Life Safety on Boats
Be Safe on the Water Labor Day Weekend is upon us which means that thousands of people will be soaking in the last weekend of summer near the water. Many of these people will be spending their time on boats. It is important when you are on any type of watercraft (boats, wave runners, kayaks, and jet skis) that you … Read More