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In This Issue… • School Earthquake Preparedness 2) • The Great Long Beach Earthquake 2) • Business preparedness 2) • RACES profile 3) • Magnolia Baptist Church-New CERT Team & POD 3) • RACES News 4) • Neighborhood Team Captain Profile 5) • Upcoming Training and Events 6) CERT / RACES Newsletter Anaheim Office of Disaster Preparedness www.anaheim.net Spring 2008 The Great Southern California Shakeout By: Ellen Lopez, Disaster Preparedness Manager www.anaheim.net/newdisasterprep Be prepared. Be aware. Be involved. www.ReadyOC.org Spring 2008 Are you ready to participate in the largest earthquake drill in history? This year’s Golden Guardian Exercise will be simulating a 7.8 earthquake on the San Andreas Fault. The Great South- ern California Shakeout is scheduled November 13, at 10:00 a.m. At that time 21 million Californians from across eight counties including Or- ange County and the City of Anaheim will “Drop, Cover, and Hold On.” Schools, residents, businesses and other organizations will join our emer- gency responders in this earthquake preparedness exercise which will last for approximately seven days. To determine the impact of a 7.8 earthquake, Hazus, a regional earth- quake loss estimation model that was developed by FEMA and the National Institute of Building Sciences, is provid- ing the methodology and software ap- plication to develop earthquake losses at a regional scale. These loss esti- mates will be used primarily by local, state and regional officials to plan and simulate efforts to reduce risks from earthquakes and to prepare for emer- gency response and recovery. The 2008 Golden Guardian exer- cise provides an opportunity to test, validate and improve plans, proce- dures and protocols in response to an earthquake. All departments, agencies, schools and organizations are encour- aged to participate with the Anaheim Office of Disaster Preparedness in testing various elements of their emer- gency plans. Based on the 7.8 earthquake sce- nario, a total of 9,011,760 households will be displaced. 1,227,116 of those households will be in Orange County. In re- sponse to this exercise, the Ana- heim Emergency Operations Center (EOC) will be acti- vated to support local agencies and organizations that will be testing their procedures. The earthquake will occur on No- vember 13th, 10:00 a.m., at which time Californians should “Drop, Cover and Hold.” On the 14th mitigation conversa- tions will take place throughout the state as to the preparations required for such an event. On Saturday, November 15th, local volunteer organizations and faith communities are requested to par- ticipate and improve their personal level of preparedness. Anaheim CERT and RACES will be participating in this exer- cise as well. Natural disasters are unavoidable and we can take steps now to be better prepared for a catastrophic disaster such as a 7.8 earthquake. We encourage our local schools and businesses to continue their prepar- edness efforts and join us in exercising their plans this coming November. For those agencies that need to further de- velop their emergency plans and proce- dures, keep appraised of the planning topics that will be covered in our upcom- ing newsletters. We look forward to more collabo- ration and participation as we move forward with the planning of this exer- cise. Please let us know if your or- ganization would like to participate. For those of you that would like to take steps now in being more pre- pared, visit www.anaheim.net/ newdisasterprep or www.oes.ca.gov for resources on earthquake prepar- edness. ---PAGE BREAK--- Evacuations should NEVER be automatic. • There may be more danger out- side your building than there is inside. • There may be no safe assembly area outside nor clear routes to get outside. • It is likely that the lighting inside your building will be out, so you may be stuck in the dark. • Before any decision is made to evacuate any part of your build- ing, someone must find out if there is a safe route and a safe place to assemble. Survey your building for evacua- tion routes NOW, BEFORE the Earthquake hits. • Look for potential post- earthquake hazards inside the building. Page 2 www.anaheim.net Anaheim Office of Disaster Preparedness School Earthquake Evacuations If you had to evacuate your school or business, would you know what to do? • Designate evacuation routes that avoid hazardous areas. • Designate alternate evacuation routes. • Consider persons with disabilities in evacuation planning efforts. • Designate open areas outside that are without overhead haz- ards. • Designate who will have the re- sponsibility to assess conditions after a quake. AFTER the earthquake, gather in- formation and make decisions. • Assess the situation inside and out. • Decide whether to evacuate all or parts of the building. • Choose the routes and assembly place. • Communicate directions to all persons. This newsletter is published quarterly in January, April, July and October CONTACT US Anaheim Fire Department Office of Disaster Preparedness 500 E. Broadway Ave. Anaheim, CA 92805 Phone: (714) 765-6955 Fax: (714) 765-6959 [EMAIL REDACTED] [EMAIL REDACTED] March 10, 2008 marks the anni- versary date that southern California experienced a 6.4 magnitude earth- quake, thereafter named “the Great 1933 Long Beach earthquake.” The City of Long Beach and sur- rounding communities experienced extensive damage; most significantly to poorly designed and un-reinforced brick structures. Schools, however, were the hardest hit by the quake with 120 schools in and around the Long Beach area experiencing damage and another 70 schools were destroyed. The earthquake struck at 5:55 p.m. and had the earthquake struck a few hours earlier during school hours, the casualties would have been extremely devastating. An estimated 120 people died in the quake, which included 5 children and property losses esti- mated at $50 million (1933) dollars. As a result the California State Legislature passed the Field Act on April 10, 1933 which required all pub- lic school plans be authorized and reviewed by the Division of State Ar- chitect to ensure quality buildings. Since the enforcement of the act no Field Act school has collapsed in an earthquake. Though tragic, the earth- quake provided building designers valuable information to improve the performance of buildings and protect future generations if and when an- other earthquake should strike. 75th Anniversary of the 1933 Long Beach Earthquake by: Eloisa Barajas, California State University Fullerton While reports vary, as many as 40 percent of small businesses do not reopen after a major disaster like a flood, tornado or earthquake. These shuttered businesses were unprepared for a disaster; they had no plan or backup systems. When you start to develop your disaster plan, consider three subjects: human resources, physical resources and business continuity. Think about how a disaster could affect your em- ployees, customers and workplace. No business should risk operating without a disaster plan Think about how you could continue doing business if the area around your facility is closed or streets are impass- able. Think about what you would need to serve your customers even if your facility is closed. Visit our website for more information or www.ReadyOC.org. ---PAGE BREAK--- Anaheim Office of Disaster Preparedness www.anaheim.net Page 3 Magnolia Baptist Church Trains to Become a POD The Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI) program in Orange County was initiated in 2005. The primary focus of the CRI program is to develop the capa- bility to acquire and distribute resources of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) to the population of Orange County within a 48-hour timeframe. In order to optimize these efforts, com- munity partnerships are being developed to foster a working relationship within the commu- nity resulting in a cohesive and effective preparedness plan with the ability to effectively response to and mitigate a public health emergency. One such partnership is with Mag- nolia Baptist Church. The City of Ana- heim has teamed up with Orange County Health Care Agency and Mag- nolia Baptist Church for this unique col- laborative effort to effectively plan and prepare for a localized public health Magnolia Baptist will exercise their Point of Distribution (POD) Site on November 7, 2008 emergency that will take us steps closer to a unified and successful emergency response. The overarch- ing objective of this exercise is to plan a field level mass prophylaxis response with the goal of providing the community of Anaheim with an established functional Point of Dispensing (POD) site, which may be activated to dispense vac- cines, prophylactic drugs, critical sup- plies and/or essential service informa- tion in the event of an emergency. To do this flu vaccinations will be provided free to the public at Magnolia Baptist Church and at another site in the City of Irvine on November 7. Workshops and seminars will be scheduled during the upcoming months to better define our proce- dures in preparation for the exercise. In it’s largest class yet, Magnolia Baptist Church hosted an unprece- dented 70 person CERT Training class in January of 2008. Of the 70 in atten- dance, 50 people completed the full certification series. This training series is the first part- nership between Anaheim CERT and a faith-based organization. Corey Wylde, Connections Minister from Magnolia Baptist Church states, “The Commu- nity Emergency Response Team con- cept fulfills my desire to serve our com- munity. I was thrilled that 50 other peo- ple from Anaheim shared our vision and are working toward certification. We hope disaster never strikes, but if it does, west Anaheim will be ready. The training was filled with helpful informa- tion that was presented in a fun and entertaining manner. It was time well spent.” As a result of the dedication and com- mitment to becoming disaster pre- pared, Magnolia Baptist Church is the newest Neighborhood CERT Team Rally Point, staffed with a team of 25 CERT Certified members and under the leadership of the newest team cap- tain, Corey Wylde. Anaheim welcomes their newest members and is excited to partner with Magnolia Baptist Church as we strive for better preparedness in our commu- nity. Anaheim CERT Welcomes 50 New Graduates “The Community Emergency Response Team concept fulfills my desire to serve our commu- nity. We hope disaster never strikes, but if it does, west Ana- heim will be ready.” -Corey Wylde, Connections Min- ister, Magnolia Baptist Church Volunteer Profile Bob Templeton Anaheim RACES Chief Radio Operator Anaheim RACES welcomes Bob Templeton, KI6CWA as its new Chief Radio Officer. Bob joined Anaheim RACES 2006 and accepted the position of CRO in December 2007. We are very pleased that Bob has taken on the role of CRO and are looking forward to an exciting year ahead. Bob holds a General Class license. Bob worked for the City of Anaheim Public Utilities Department for 36 years before retiring in 2005. For over half of that time he worked in the Electrical En- gineering Division designing and su- pervising Capital Improvements to the City’s Electrical System. Since retir- ing, Bob has come back to work for the City part time in the Electrical En- gineering Division. Bob enjoys visits with his grand children, follows through with his love of domestic and international travel and finally fulfilled a life long desire to become a ham radio operator. ---PAGE BREAK--- RACES Volunteers Provide Radio Communications for Primary Elections RACES volunteers once again were part of the Ballot Transportation Team which provided transportation, security and amateur radio communications in support of the Primary Elections held on February 5th. Precinct workers throughout the county delivered ballot boxes from 1,118 polling places to one of 23 designated collection centers. Chief Radio Officer Bob Templeton and Tom Baldwin were stationed at the Anaheim Hills Library collection center while Ken Pruzinski and Austin Miller were stationed at the main police station parking lot collection center. RACES volunteers were given a list of precinct numbers designated to their specific collection center location. Their roll was to check off the precinct box numbers as they were dropped off at the collection center. Radio communications to Net Control provided arrivals and departure information of the transport vehicles and the number of each ballot box being transported to the Vote Tally Center located in Santa Ana. Anaheim Hills were assigned to collect 36 precinct boxes while police main station collected 75 precinct boxes. Anaheim RACES Gets A Trailer By: Chris Peña, KE6GXA, Anaheim Police Department Anaheim RACES is the proud re- cipient of a 8’ X 16’ trailer that was a retired fire prevention resource from the Fire Department. With a lot of work, the trailer will be retrofitted into a new emergency com- munications and technology resource to support RACES and CERT as well as county-wide disaster response ac- tivities. The trailer is outfitted with awnings, a generator and a fold down side that doubles its usable space. RACES volunteers spent the first Sun- day of March ripping and gutting out the trailer. Our hope is to have “progress” days (I don’t like to say work days then nobody will come!) to retrofit the trailer to house special- ized emergency communications equipment and work stations. As there are no funds to support this retrofit project, we are reaching out to our community at large to ask for assistance to make this happen. We need technical services to include a welder (1x1 box steel tubing), an elec- trician (the rig is already wired with out- lets connected to the generator but we would like to install a fuse panel) and a painter (to give this resource a polished look) and a cabinet worker (to design and install work stations and storage cabinets). Hardware donations would be greatly appreciated as well to include electrical wire and conduit, several pieces of ¾ inch plywood (flooring), automotive paint (white), lighting (florescent), cabinet resources and flooring material (indoor/outdoor carpet). We will be announcing progress days at each CERT/RACES meeting and over the Monday Night Nets. If you can participate or know such a resource as described above, we would love to hear from you. Once completed, this will be a com- munications and technology resource for RACES and CERT and the entire county disaster preparedness commu- nity. So please lend a hand to make this happen! Thanks for your help in advance. Pictured: Nancy Baldwin and Michi Rogers A very big “Thank You!” to Bob, Tom, Ken and Austin for a job well done on that very cold night in February. Pictured: Austin Miller Page 4 www.anaheim.net Anaheim Office of Disaster Preparedness Anaheim RACES Has a New Frequency Anaheim RACES is now located on 146.265 MHz with PL Tone of 118.8 (2B). Special thanks to Chris Kielich for allow- ing Anaheim RACES use of his KF6FM repeater. The Mon- day Night Nets are being conducted on this frequency at 7:30 p.m. (excluding holidays). Please contact the Office of Disas- ter Preparedness at (714) 765-6951 with any questions re- garding RACES. Trailer demolition on March 2, 2008 ---PAGE BREAK--- Anaheim Office of Disaster Preparedness www.anaheim.net Page 5 Volunteer Profile Jack and Allyson Baligad Jack and Allyson have been in- volved in Anaheim CERT for nearly two years and rallies their neighbor- hood team at their home on the 200 block of Hampton Ave. Both Jack and Allyson are active leaders with the Anaheim Police Department Neighbor- hood Watch Program and use their involvement in that program to spread the word about Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response to neighbors, family and friends. This past March, Jack and Allyson completed American Red Cross Shel- ter Operations Training to expand their capabilities to provide volunteer sup- port to the City of Anaheim. And, Jack completed the Amateur Radio Licens- CERT Neighborhood Team Captains ing Class in February and is one of Ana- heim CERT’s valued HAM Radio Op- erators. When Allyson isn’t attending CERT or Neighborhood Watch meetings, she enjoys bowling, scrapbooking, read- ing...and updating her emergency kits, of course! During the day, Allyson is a Customer Service Supervisor in Fuller- ton. Jack, on the other hand loves to go fishing and volunteer for Wishland. You may see him playing an occasional game of bowling or watching an NFL Football game. During the day, Jack is a Compressed Air Technician. Neighborhood CERT Team Rally Points Twila Reid Park 3100 W. Orange Ave Maxwell Park 2655 W. Orange Ave. Stoddard Park 1901 S. 9th St. Pearson Park 400 N. Harbor Blvd. Hampton, Chain, Gain St. 200 Block of Hampton Ave. Magnolia Baptist Church 720 S. Magnolia Ave. Yorba Regional Park 7600 E. La Palma Ave. American Red Cross Super CPR Day Saturday, April 12th at Angel Stadium Adult and Child CPR and First aid $5 per person, per course Visit www.oc-redcross.org for more information CERT & RACES Upcoming Meeting Dates Meetings are at 6:30 p.m. April 8th May 13th June 10th July 8th Anaheim CERT Neighborhood Team Rally Points Twila Reid Park Maxwell Park Magnolia Baptist Church Hampton, Chain, Gain St. Stoddard Park Pearson Park Yorba Regional Park ---PAGE BREAK--- Download a registration form at www.anaheim.net/ disasterpreparedness/cert e-mail [EMAIL REDACTED] Call (714) 765-6949 or (714) 765-6955 Class Location Albert Schweitzer Elementary School 229 S. Dale Ave. Anaheim, 92804 April 14, 15 and 16 8:00-5:00 p.m. Irvine City Hall 1 Civic Center Plaza Irvine, CA Visit the Anaheim CERT website for registration form and class flier. Anaheim CERT will be volunteering time to paint a single story home of a retired couple from Anaheim Union High School District. Saturday, April 5: Prep Day Saturday, April 19th: Paint Day For more information or to participate, contact CERT Volunteer, Bill Kelly at [EMAIL REDACTED]. We look forward to giving back to our city and enjoying a day of fun and fellowship. CERT Train-the-Trainer Class Page 6 www.anaheim.net Anaheim Office of Disaster Preparedness Volunteer Opportunities To volunteer, please contact Mary Jo at (714) 765-6955 or via email COMMUNITY BOOTHS Volunteers are needed to hand out information and flyers regarding CERT and RACES programs as well as dis- aster preparedness information. Saturday, April 12, 2008 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. CPR Saturday at Angel Stadium Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Earth Day Farmers Market Saturday, May 10, 2008 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Western BBQ and Galaxy Car Show Saturday, May 17, 2008 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Orange County Public Works Open House Booth RACES TRAILER RESOURCES NEEDED Welders, Electricians and Cabinet Makers are needed to refurbish the new RACES trailer. Please contact Debbie Heilman at (714) 765-6951 for more information on service needs. Anaheim Paint Your Heart Out Tell All of Your Friends About the Next CERT Training Class! Friday, April 11 4 - 9 p.m. (dinner provided) Disaster Preparedness CERT & Terrorism Saturday, April 12 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Fire Suppression Medical Ops 1 & II Search and Rescue Sunday, April 13 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Disaster Team Organization Simulation Welcome The Office of Disas- ter Preparedness would like to wel- come our newest team member, Mary Jo Mary Jo serves as the Disas- ter Preparedness Assistant Manager, whose responsi- bilities include: ensuring the Emer- gency Operations Center is in a state of readiness, preparing related emer- gency plans and supervising volun- teer programs. Mary Jo started with the City in 1991 as a Lifeguard and later super- vised the aquatics program; managing over 80 part-time employees and an additional 20 volunteers. In 2004 Mary Jo participated in the Manage- ment Intern program and worked in the City Manager’s Office where she was later assigned as the Senior Gov- ernment Relations Analyst. Her eclectic experiences with the City, including work with Human Resources and lobbying efforts for Homeland Security give her a unique perspective of City activities and is a welcomed addition to the ODP. Over the next few months, Mary Jo will become more involved in the CERT and RACES volunteer pro- grams and may be reached at (714) 765-6955.