Welcome to the San Geronimo Valley Disaster Council web site.
Click here to download the San Geronimo Valley Disaster Council Emergency Operations Plan.
Click here to download: “Your Home Survival Kit”.
Click here to download: “SGV Disaster Registry Form”.
Our Next Meeting (Please Note Location Change!):
San Geronimo Valley Disaster Council
Wednesday, May 30th at 7 PM
Wilderness Way Building by the Lagunitas School.
It is the old recycling building on the left going up the road to & before the gym. The building is lime green & it is an old mobile classroom
Please join us for the next meeting of the San Geronimo Valley Disaster Council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, in the Community Meditation Hall (across the creek from the paved parking lot). For a PDF map of Spirit Rock please go to: http://72.5.49.29/document.doc?id=6
The new leaders of the Disaster Council, Brian McCarthy and Michael Stephens, will lead another informative meeting about dealing with disaster preparation. Brian and Mike have many years of experience in dealing with emergencies and disaster preparedness.
All Valley residents are welcome at the monthly Disaster Council meetings. Learn how you can help prepare yourself and your neighborhood in the event of an emergency or natural disaster. Refreshments will be served.
Steps in Preparing For Disaster
Get Ready Marin
The Get Ready program is one of the easiest ways to prepare yourself and your family for an emergency. At the website, getreadymarin.org, you will find information regarding preparing your home and community for disaster. There is even an online home study course that will allow you to become certified without leaving the house. For those of you that can get your neighbors together, Get Ready trainers will meet at your home for groups larger than six, or at the Woodacre Fire Station if you prefer.
CERT
Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training is an active way to become prepared. Classes to become certified are $30 and include 16 hours of training, a binder full of reference material and a big green backpack loaded with emergency response items.
The next CERT local class is being held in Nicasio on two consecutive Saturdays, May 12th and 19th, from 9:00 AM until 4:30 PM. To sign up for this important class, go here: http://www.marincountycert.org/cert-training-schedule. Don’t delay; classes fill up fast!
For those of you that can’t wait until May, there is an April class that meets for three hours a day for five consecutive Tuesdays, from 6 until 9, starting April 3rd and ending May 1st, at the San Rafael 210 Third Street fire station next to Whole Foods. The June CERT training in Mill Valley is offered over a single weekend, Saturday June 9th and Sunday June 10th, 8:30 AM until 4 PM each day, at Fire Station 9, 308 Reed Blvd, way out behind the Baptist Seminary in Strawberry.
Earthquake Preparedness
If you are interested in earthquake preparedness and are visiting San Francisco soon you might want to drop in at SPUR (San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association), 654 Mission Street (between New Montgomery and Third, downtown) for their new exhibition called, “Safe Enough To Stay”. The exhibit helps to prepare residents to maintain the habitability of their homes after a major earthquake, even if their home has been damaged. Details include supplies to stock, communication and maps of areas that are subject to liquefaction and land slides. Check out their website at:
http://www.spur.org/publications/library/report/safe-enough-stay
and there is a write-up from the San Francisco Chronicle at:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/14/DDUE1N646L.DTL
A large earthquake in the future is inevitable. The time to prepare is now.
Grand Jury Report on Marin County Disaster Preparedness
The Marin County Grand Jury wanted to know if Marin County is ready for a disaster and their conclusion is that no, we aren’t, with few exceptions. You can read their report here:
Disaster Preparedness in Marin
The Marin County Board of Supervisors doesn’t entirely agree with the Grand Jury’s conclusions. Read their response here:
