Disaster preparedness and other related information

- October 21, 2021, Great California Shake Out Earthquake Drill and Awareness day!

- September 21, 2021, Mendocino County Board of supervisors declared the Hopkins Fire as an Emergency.
Read all about it on Mendocino Voice!
(See link below)

To contact the Mendocino County Disaster Recovery Hotline
Call: (707) 234 - 6303

For more information regarding the Hopkins Fire and and available assistance see the poster below and click on the QR code

For available help for those impacted by the Hopkins Fire check the North Coast Opportunities (NCO) links below

FIREWORKS ARE ILLEGAL IN MENDOCINO COUNTY
(see Cal Fire's poster below)

Cal Fire suspends all burning permits in Mendocino County
(see Cal Fire's posters below)

Services & Resources

- To visit Cal Fires' website,

click here.

- To get ready for wildfire season,

click here.

- To register for cellphone notifications from Cal Fire,

click here.

- To visit the latest map of incidents, click here.

- To see the various types of air crafts used by Cal Fire (pdf format)

click here.

- To visit Cal Fire's Statewide Facebook page, click here.

- To visit Cal Fire Mendocino Unit's Facebook page, click here.

- To Cal Fire MEU at Ridgewood grade to get a new Helicopter (Cal Fire Hawk)To watch a Cal Fire made You Tube video about the Cal Fire Hawk, click here.

- CalFire set up a Public information phone number related to the

Hopkins fire. The number is:

(707) 972 - 3838

- To read Post-Fire Recovery instructions, click here.

Ukiah falls under the Gold Country chapter of the American Red Cross but the Northern California Coastal Chapter has an office in Santa Rosa.

- To visit Northern California Coastal chapter's website,

click here.

- To visit Gold Country's website, click here.

- To visit the Red Cross'

Wildfire Safety

page, click here.

- To visit the Red Cross' Earthquake Safety

page, click here.

- To take online Red Cross classes such as First Aid, CPR, AED, Babysitting & Child Care,

and more, click here.

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Red Cross:

call (707) 262 -7117

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United Disaster Relief of Northern California is based in Redwood Valley and is currently setting up meetings to accept donations,

Call: (707) 489 - 3970

- According to their Facebook Page, Until further notice, the are no longer accepting gently used clothes.

- They also accept gift card for fire survivors.

- To visit their webpage click here.

- To visit the

United Disaster Relief's

Facebook page, click here.

- To register and receive services from United Disaster Relief of Northern California,

click here.

(Up-Date!)

- The United Disaster Relief of Northern California Center's

NEW location is:

1240 Airport Park boulevard, in Ukiah. (Between Panda Express and Tractor Supply)

It's open Monday through Friday from 10am to 2pm

(for September)

-The mailing address is:

PO BOX 662

Ukiah, CA 95482

(See poster below)

- For Mendocino County Emergency Preparedness for Your home information,

click here.

- For Mendocino County Emergency Alert and notification Service, Mendo Alert,

click here.

- For Mendocino County's Evacuation plan, May 2020 (pdf format), click here.

- For Mendocino Air Quality Management District, click here.

- Countywide road conditions,

click here.

- To visit Mendocino County Department of Transportation's Facebook page, click here.

- To see a Mendocino County's list of resources available to

Hopkins Fire Survivors,

click here.

Hopkins Fire Human Evacuation Shelter is located at 2240 Old River Road, in Talmage (maybe closed)

The Animal Evacuation Shelters

- For large animals:

Redwood Empire Fair Grounds

1055 State Street, Ukiah

- For small animals:

Mendocino County Animal Shelter

298 Plant Road, Ukiah

- To contact the Mendocino County Disaster Recovery Hotline,

Call (707) 234 -6303

- To access the Mendocino County Application for Reassessment of Property Damaged by Misfortune or Calamity. to access that application, click here.

- To North Coast Opportunities' website,

click here.

- To visit NCO's Facebook page, click here.

- For Hopkins Fire Survivors who need financial assistance information and so forth, click here.

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NCES

North Coast Energy Service

- Hopkins Fire Survivors, if you need a place to stay and qualify you may want to check out the Severe Weather Energy Assistance and Transportation Service (S.W.E.A.T.S) operated by NCES

- To visit the NCES website,

click here.

- To access an NCES claim form for assistance (pdf format),

click here.

- For more NCES information call (707) 463- 0303

-1. You should have at least one fire extinguisher on each level of your home.

-2. You should have at least one fire extinguisher in your garage.

-3. You should check once a year that your

fire extinguishers are charged (look on the

fire extinguisher for a gauge, the pointers should be on the green "charged" portion of the gauge.

- 4. Learn how to use a fire extinguisher! See "PASS" poster below.

- 5. If you plan on buying a fire extinguisher, check that it is capable of extinguishing type A, B and C fires. See below for a chart related to those types.

- 6. You should have a fire extinguisher in your vehicle!

In case of evacuation due to a pending fire, go ahead and place your home's fire extinguishers out by your front door. They may be useful to fire fighters.

If you have enough space in your backyard, you might want to set up a "Fuel Dump" away from structures (i.e.: your house, garage, barn, etc...)

This would be the place where you would put your flammables (i.e.: gas cans, propane cans, spray cans, etc....). You should post a sign saying clearly "Fuel Dump" or "Danger, flammable Material, keep fire away" (see the sign below, from safetysign.com) This will save the fire department time because they won't have to scour your garage or home to find them.

Loose trailer chains can start fires and so can poorly inflated tires (rims scraping the pavement can spark fires). If you have to tow a trailer, make sure that the safety chains do not touch the ground. Depending on the size of the chain, get some old rubber hose or some thick flexible plastic conduit and wrap the chain with it then zip tie it firmly to the chain. That way there will be no contact between the chain and the road surface and therefore no sparks!

See the poster below.

To see a 1 minute and 49 seconds video, from 2014, done by the Arizona Department of Transportation, the US Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management about the six ways that a vehicle can start a fire (YouTube), click here

A full swimming pool can be useful to firefighters.

- 1. If you have an "In-Ground" swimming pool.

Post the amount of gallons of water it contains so that fire fighters know what water resource it can provide them in case of a fire.

Firefighters may pump water out it to supply their pumper truck or to fight the fire directly.

- 2. If you have an "Above-ground" swimming pool.

Post the amount of gallons of water it contains so that firefighters know water resource it can rpovide them in case of a fire. Firefighters will, probably not pump directly from it but they might be able to use that water to fight the fire.

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Other resources....:

Douglas Kent wrote,

"Firescaping: Protecting Your Home with Fire Resistant Landscape" (2nd edition) Published by Wilderness Press, 2019

ISBN: 978-0899979625

Cost: about $22.00

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One can supposedly live for three days without water but I'm not willing to risk that. So how does one purify water? Well... You will, first, need to filter it to remove debris. You can use a bandana, or other clean cloth or a coffee filter to do so. then you should get rid of bacteria and other living organisms

-1. You should boil it for at least one minute.

To learn more about that process, from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),

click here.

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-2. You should add unscented bleach. Now beware of bleach because it's not all the same. Make sure that it's NOT splash reduced or scented or modified in any way. It should have 8.25% sodium hypochlorite in it or at least 5.25%. To learn more about which bleach is the right kind, click here.

To learn more as to the ratios of amounts of bleach and water from the EPA, (same link as found in boiling the water), click here.

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-3. Use water purifying tablets. To learn more about that technique, click here.

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Disaster preparedness and other related information

(Up dated: 10/18/2021)

Senators: Dianne Feinstein & Alex Padilla

Congressman Jared Huffman

California State Senator Mike McGuire

California Assembly Member Jim Wood

Federal Emergency Management Agency

California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES)

California Highway Patrol (CHP)

Mendocino County Sheriff's Office (MCSO)

Ukiah Police Department (UPD)

Willits Police Department(WPD)

US Forest Service(USFS)

Cal Fire

Mendocino Fire Safe Council

Alert Wildfires(North Bay)

UCANRUniversity of California Agriculture and Natural Resources

InciwebIncident Information System

CalTopo

Hopland Fire District

Ukiah Valley Fire Authority(UVFA)

Ukiah Valley Fire District(UVFD)

Redwood Valley and Calpella Fire Department

Willits' Fire Department

Brooktrails Township Fire Department

Laytonville Fire Department

The Red Cross

United Disaster Relief of Northern California

County of Mendocino

North Coast Opportunities (NCO)

The Mendocino VoiceLocal news for all of Mendocino

The US Fire Administration (USFA)

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)

The NFPA's mascot,Sparky (for kids)

The Bureau of Land Management(BLM)

The US Army Corps of Engineers

The US Geological Survey(USGS)

California Department of Conservation (DOC)

Cal Trans

Flood Factor

Nation's Finest

California Fire Prevention Organization

The National Weather Service(Eureka)

Weather Underground

Air Now

California Department of Social Services(CDSS)

Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E)

Listos California

Community Emergency response Team (CERT), Mendocino

California Conservation Corps(CCC)

City of Ukiah

Historical map of California fires pre-1950 to 2019

California Fire Safe Council

The Center for Disease Control

The Community Foundation of Mendocino County

Other Fire Preparedness Tips

Fire Extinguishers

Pressure Sprayers

Fuel Dump

Trailer chains can spark fires!

Swimming Pools

Purifying Water for Drinking Purposes

Informational posters and signs...

Mendocino County's Human Evacuation Center is located at 2240 Old River Road, in Talmage.

Six ways that a vehicle can start a wildfire poster from the Arizona Department of Transportation, the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management.

Emergency Evacuation List of Items to Gather you can take a "Screenshot" and print it.

Visual check list for your disaster supply kit

To use your fire extinguisher, remember PASS: 1. Pull, 2. Aim, 3. Squeeze the handle, 4. Spray the base back and forth until the fire is out. You don't need to empty the whole fire extinguisher.

For your "Fuel Dump" this Danger, Flammable material, Keep Fire Away, sign from Safetysign.com would work well.

The different classifications for fire extinguishers.

Smokey Bear, "Love thy neighborhood. Help prevent wildfires" poster

18 to 25? Join the California Conservation Corps!

=================================================================================David Gengoux, Ukiah Adult School, Citizenship / Diploma / GED Teacher (707) 463-5217 ext. 8061

Senators:
Dianne Feinstein & Alex Padilla

Congressman
Jared Huffman

California State Senator
Mike McGuire

California Highway Patrol
(CHP)

Ukiah Police Department
(UPD)

Willits Police Department
(WPD)

US Forest Service
(USFS)

Alert Wildfires
(North Bay)

UCANR
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources

Inciweb
Incident Information System

Ukiah Valley Fire Authority
(UVFA)

Ukiah Valley Fire District
(UVFD)

The Mendocino Voice
Local news for all of Mendocino

The US Fire Administration
(USFA)

The National Fire Protection Association
(NFPA)

The NFPA's mascot,
Sparky (for kids)

The Bureau of Land Management
(BLM)

The US Geological Survey
(USGS)

The National Weather Service
(Eureka)

California Department of Social Services
(CDSS)

Pacific Gas & Electric
(PG&E)

Community Emergency response Team
(CERT), Mendocino

California Conservation Corps
(CCC)

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David Gengoux, Ukiah Adult School, Citizenship / Diploma / GED Teacher (707) 463-5217 ext. 8061