Yes, and here is the current version for you to read. And if you want a deeper dive into more information, here are the plans for the County, the Bay Area, and the State:

• City of San José Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)
• Santa Clara County EOP
• San Francisco Bay Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan
• State of California Emergency Plan

We no longer have nuclear fallout shelters in San José. However, you can get information on preparing for this horrific, and hopefully, unlikely event via the videos below, which have some great emergency planning and preparedness tips.

• https://www.ready.gov/nuclear-explosion
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sq7wbLVAVk
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPx2DT49yMg

Find out more about our CERT program here.

Sign up for AlertSCC here with a cell phone, email address, or home phone, and we will make sure you stay informed.

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• Family Emergency Communications Plan from FEMA
• Basic Emergency Supply List (For everyone!)

Here are some great resources for you to help your family member with special medical needs or access and functional needs be disaster resilient!

• http://www.redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for-emergencies/disaster-safety-for-people-with-disabilities#Plan-Ahead
• http://www.disastersrus.org/mydisasters/disability/disability.pdf
• https://www.ready.gov/individuals-access-functional-needs

Ask and you shall receive!

• https://www.ready.gov/business
• https://www.ready.gov/business-continuity-plan
• https://www.ready.gov/business-continuity-planning-suite

An emergency supply kit does not change for a business, it just scales up or down according to the number of employees you have on staff.

Places of worship are playing a greater role in disaster management so we recommend the following resources for you and your faith-based community.

• http://www.govtech.com/em/disaster/Churches-Playing-Growing-Role-Emergency-Management.html
• https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/individuals-communities/faith

The last document referenced above is filled with links to great resources. While it’s from 2013 and things do change fast in our technologically advanced society, the themes are still relevant.

An emergency supply kit does not change for a faith based organization, it just scales up according to the number of people in your congregation and others affected by a disaster who you wish to serve.

The Collaborating Agencies’ Disaster Relief Effort (CADRE) is a network of organizations that provide community services that are essential in times of disaster. They also coordinate organizational preparedness planning in non-disaster times and are a great resource for your faith-based group.

Thanks for being prepared for your special community. We have some great resources for you

• Residential care evacuation training video from our friends at the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District.
• Emergency preparedness information from the American Health Care Association.
• Emergency preparedness for assisted living communities from the California Assisted Living Association.
• California Association of Health Facilities Disaster Preparedness Program.
• Community Planning Framework for Healthcare Preparedness from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Programs and services for those with access and functional needs from the Silicon Valley Independent Living Center.

Review the Ready.gov planning steps and share the plan with your family, friends, co-workers.

When local officials tell you to shelter-in-place, the intention is to keep you safe while remaining indoors. It means to find a small, interior room, with no or few windows, and take refuge there. Typically, the instructions to shelter-in-place means to shelter for a few hours, not days or weeks at a time. Keep listening to your radio or TV until you are told it's safe.

• https://www.ready.gov/shelter
• https://www.redcross.org/content/dam/redcross/atg/PDF_s/Preparedness___Disaster_Recovery/Disaster_Preparedness/Terrorism/shelterinplace.pdf
• https://emergency.cdc.gov/shelterinplace.asp

Emergencies happen every day, and the community calls 9-1-1 to get Fire Department, Police Department or Ambulance services. The city has immediate resources to support you on a daily basis.

There are other times when response won't be as quick, such as when a major earthquake strikes the Silicon Valley. The role of the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) is to help the Fire Chief, Police Chief, Mayor, and City Manager, along with all City staff to organize response and recovery efforts. To lessen the impact of the potential disaster, OEM also works with community members, including you and your family, to be prepared. OEM provides information and training on how to build an emergency kit, create an emergency communications plan and identify how to stay informed so you know what to do next.

Here is a great video that explains the basics of Emergency Management.

The Office of Emergency Management leads efforts to protect life, property and the environment by developing, coordinating and managing programs that prevent, prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate natural and man-made disasters and emergencies. More specifically, the OEM manages the following functions:

• Hazard identification, risk assessment and impact analysis
• Hazard mitigation
• Planning
• Direction, control and coordination
• Communications and warning
• Operations and procedures
• Logistics and facilities
• Resource management
• Mutual aid
• Training
• Exercises, evaluations and corrective actions
• Crisis communications and public information
• Finance and administration
• Laws and authorities

The best way is whatever works for you and your family. Not everyone has or likes smart phones, and not everyone likes to send text messages. But that is a really good way to stay in contact during an emergency because text messages will go through when phone calls might not. Radio is a proven technology that has been helping us in emergency response for almost 100 years. And remember, you probably still have a radio charged and ready to go if you own a car. TV is great if it’s still working. Same goes for the internet. We will push messages out to the public in any way we can after a disaster including emergency phone, radio and TV messages. We will also send Police and Fire units out to your neighborhood with public address systems, longer range loud speakers, and to knock on your door if we have to. Stay alert, stay tuned and stay informed!

We get it. Pets are family too. So much so that after Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Government directed FEMA to recognize the need to plan for pets in a large scale disaster. So here in San José our Animal Care Center works with us during disasters to help take care of pets. We try and locate pet shelters along with or very close to the people shelters. We also work with the County Office of Emergency Services and Animal Care for large pets like horses. Here is some basic information for you to help make sure your pet has its own go bag in case your family has to evacuate:

• https://www.ready.gov/animals
• https://www.ready.gov/sites/default/files/documents/files/ARCPetsandSheltering_3pg.pdf
• https://www.ready.gov/sites/default/files/2021-06/ready_pet-preparedness-flyer.pdf

There are many lists out there, here are a couple we like and recommend from FEMA and Red Cross.

The only type of disaster that we don’t see here in the Golden State is Hurricanes. What we try to prepare for are the more frequent and expected types of disasters. And for all of us here in the Northern California Bay Area, that means earthquakes, fires and floods. We take an all-hazards approach to emergency preparedness, so if you have an emergency Kit, an emergency communications Plan, and are ready to Stay Informed via smart phone, radio, or TV, then you are ready for whatever comes your way!