1. Disaster Home Preparedness
Las Positas College Flex Day – April 3, 2018

2. Your Presenter For This Morning
Jim Yoke
Manager: Emergency Preparedness & Workplace Safety
Chabot – Las Positas Community College District
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3. My Background Grew up Oregon – Go Beavers!!
Eighteen years in San Diego – Go Padres!!
Emergency Management career began as an American Red Cross volunteer, then employee, then as a volunteer
Emergency Planner for the San Diego County Office of Education
Eleven years with the Santa Clara County Fire Department

4. The Plan For Today – Goals & Objectives
For the most part, getting you ready for an incident
Your risks
How to plan for those risks
What kinds of supplies you should have prepared
What is Jim Yoke’s job now? It’s new.
What is the plan for the District and Las Positas College for the next few years?
Your role in all of this – there are many – we’ll just talk briefly about one of them (DSW)

5. What Is This New Position?
Manager: Emergency Preparedness & Workplace Safety
First priority: Develop an Emergency Management Program at the Chabot – Las Positas Community College District
Write a lot of different plans
Provide training
Conduct drills and exercises
Interact with local, county, state, and federal partners
Second priority: Develop a District Safety Program

6. Long Range Plan
Build a strong, organized, systematic emergency response system – it is cyclical
Mitigate threats wherever possible
Set up a strong CERT program
Implement a training and exercise program that has documented goals and progress reports
Develop the best safety and security program possible
OSHA…slips, trips, falls, HAZMAT, etc.
Personal safety and security

7. Defining “Preparedness”
Two main parts:
Planning
Training
This is true in the workplace – it is true at home too
Mitigation is a big part of this also
Community mitigation
Personal mitigation at home
Creating a “Culture Of Preparedness” is the goal
Planning for the probable versus the possible
“Disaster” vs “Emergency” – keeping things in context
Time of day and day of week are crucially important!

8. About You – DSW Is Not A Shoe Store!
You are all Disaster Service Workers
What does this mean?
California law for all public employees – state, county, local, special district (that’s us)
When there is an incident you must report to your supervisor for instructions
You must be available, but you may or may not be put to work
Ebbs and flows of the LPC daily population
You will perform poorly if you’re not ready at home!

9. Getting Ready At Home Risks – they vary geographically
Earthquake
Wildfire
House fire
Flood
Plans – know your hazards
Communications
Evacuation
Family reunification
Supplies Kit – home, office, car
Strongly influenced by whether you stay home or evacuate

10. Earthquake
Can you believe that the Loma Prieta Earthquake was almost thirty years ago?
This causes a problem. Complacency, and lack of experience for younger people who don’t know what an earthquake is like.
Fault lines
San Andreas
Hayward
Calaveras
The pressure on the Hayward fault is particularly high
DROP – COVER – HOLD ON!!!
Doorways, and “just run like heck” – No, No, NO!!

11. Wildfire
The consequences of decades of fire prevention and forest management
Where are we building homes now? WUI is important.
Drought, dead and dying trees
Climate change and global warming – they matter
What happened last October in Wine Country?
What does this mean for you?
You must have defensible space
You must have a plan

12. House Fire – Structure Fire
More deaths, injuries, and damage from this every year than all other disasters combined
Smoke alarms and fire extinguishers
Know how to crawl – smoke inhalation will kill you
Two routes out of every room – bathrooms can be hard
Do you have an upstairs? How will you get out?
Agreed upon meeting place – neighbor’s house, mailbox, picnic table, something everybody knows well
Kitchens are where most house fires begin
Other problems – candles, space heaters, cigarettes

13. Flooding – Does This Happen Here?
February 2017 – San Jose
Russian River
San Bernardo – floods galore – look it up
Locally, where are you at (personally, I’m on a hill)
What about burn areas – they can’t handle even normal rainfall very well
Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties right now

14. Planning For Your Risks
Family Disaster Plan
You must talk about it, and talk about it often
What are your hazards?
Where are people at on a daily basis?
What routes do people use to travel?
What about children at school?
Seniors – at home or living at a licensed facility (this is a growing population with the baby boomers retiring)
Access & Functional Needs populations

15. Three Big Things To Know
Communications
Texting is better than talking
Amateur radio is a wonderful thing
Evacuation
Alert & Warning systems – do you need to wait for instructions?
Will you, or won’t you – it’s not as simple as you may think
Travel Time – be prepared for the worst traffic ever!!
Family Reunification
Schools are predictable (sort of)
So are licensed senior facilities
Do you know their plans???

16. Your Family Disaster Supplies Kit
The difference between your Family Kit, and a “go-kit”
What if the power is out but your home is just fine?
What if you are told at 2:30 a.m. that you need to leave in five minutes?
Financial documents
Family mementoes and keepsakes
Medication and the ability to get refills in times of chaos
Your neighbors will love you – get them ready too

17. The Usual Supplies Kit Suspects
Food
Water
Radio
Toilet
Money
Clothes
Shoes
Everything else – how are you evacuating and how much can you carry?

18. Where Do You Go From Here?
Training
Neighborhood organizing
CERT
Where is your nearest shelter? Be prepared to go somewhere else when the time comes.
Get into your community’s alert and warning system
Get into the Las Positas College system too
Prepare your home – defensible space, alarms, earthquake and fire mitigation
Get your supplies together

19. QUESTIONS???