Emergency Management -  Preparing Citizens

Contents

• Citizen Information Resources
• Communicating Disaster Information
• Washington Local Government Program Examples

Citizen Information Resources

• Are you Ready: An In-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness - FEMA
• Citizen Corps
  • Citizen Corps Councils
  • Citizen Corps Councils in Washington
  • Citizen Preparedness Publications - Citizen Corps
• Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT)
• Map Your Neighborhood - Washington Emergency Management
• Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response - General Information  - Washington State Department of Public Health
  • Emergency Response Guide ( 776 KB), Washington State Department of Health and Division of Emergency Management, 2007
• Washington State Emergency Management Division
• Disaster Services: Be Prepared -  American Red Cross

Communicating Disaster Information

• Emergency Alert System
  • Communicating During Emergencies - Federal Communications Commission  Consumer Information
  • Emergency Alert System - Federal Communications Commission
  • Emergency Alerting System (EAS) - Washington State Emergency Management Agency
  • Current Emergency Alert System Has Limitations, and Development of a New Integrated System Will Be Challenging  ( 843 KB), GAO-07-411, Government Accounting Office, March 2007
• Other Alert Systems 
  • Reverse 911®
  • Burlingame, California - Community Alert Network - Notices of important information and emergency alerts can be sent to subscribers through computer, cell phone or any device capable of receiving email
  • Fairfax County, Virginia - The Community Emergency Alert Network (CEAN)
  • Portland, Oregon  Automated Alert Network  ( 63 KB), ICMA Resource Center
    • Regional Alliances for Infrastructure and Network Security (RAINS)
  • Puget Sound -  Regional Public Information Network (RPIN) - Puget Sound Region 
  • Rockville, Maryland - Alert Rockville - Notification system by e-mail account, cell phone, text pager, BlackBerry, wireless PDA
  • Reinventing 911, Wired Magazine , December 2005 - How a swarm of networked citizens is building a better emergency broadcast system.  
• Emergency Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN)  - NOAA National Weather Service
• Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES)
• Disasters and Emergencies - U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources
• Talking About Disaster: Guide for Standard Messages - American Red Cross, produced by the National Disaster Education Coalition, Washington, DC, 2004

Washington Local Government Program Examples

• Cowlitz County Department of Emergency Management
• Franklin County Emergency Management
• King County Office of Emergency Management
• King County Cities
  • Bellevue Emergency Preparedness
  • Mercer Island Emergency Preparedness
    • Mercer Island Neighborhood Preparedness Program
  • Redmond Disaster Preparedness
  • Seattle  Emergency Management
• Skagit County Department of Emergency Management
• Snohomish County Department of Emergency Management
  • Everett Emergency Preparedness
  • Lynnwood Emergencies
• Pierce County Department of Emergency Management
• Skagit County Department of Emergency Management
• Spokane County Emergency Management
• Thurston County Division of Emergency Management
• Whatcom County Emergency Management