Individuals - Preparation
- Sign up for Pierce County Alert to receive advisory information on an emergency that could impact you.
- Provide your Block Coordinator with the information needed for making contact with your residence in an emergency.
- Be prepared with a minimum of 30 days of water, food and medicines and keep your fuel inventories up.
- Make a plan for contacting and for meeting your family members in an emergency (use the Fox Island Bridge being out of service as your base case)
- Install a File of Life pocket onto your refrigerator so any emergency response personnel can be aware of important health info on family members. Keep your 'Help/OK' sign readily available, too.
- Read The Plan, which describes the Fox Island Emergency Response Team’s assistance process in a major emergency. The Plan, updated annually, can be round on ficra.org under Emergency Planning.
Block Coordinator (BC) - Preparation Responsibilities
- Sign up for Pierce County ALERT and encourage your neighbors so that you are on the list Pierce County will advise by phone, text, e-mail, etc. of an emergency that will impact you.
- Make a map of our designated neighborhood showing names, addresses, phone numbers, location of vulnerable persons/pets, and location of the communications site. Place that map /data in Section 1, pages 2&3.
- Make contact with each neighbor explaining your responsibility, and theirs in preparation for, and during, a major emergency. Holding a neighborhood group meeting is a very good way of doing this.
- Have a battery or crank operated radio and tune in for news updates FM 89.9 & 105.7 (KGHP), or 88.5 (KNKX-NPR), 94.9 (KOUW), 97.3 (KIRO), or 97.7FM, 1000AM (KOMO).
- Identify neighborhood resources (major tools, trucks, etc.) that may be important in an emergency and locate them on your neighborhood map.
- Pass along to your neighborhood members the information that the Emergency Preparation Team makes available. Note that you will be keeping neighborhood information confidential to the neighborhood.
- Prepare others, with binders, to act in your absence.
Area Block Coordinators (DRAFT) - Preparation
- Ascertain that the BC understands their role and responsibilities as specified in the Manual
- Help the BC feel part of the community and be engaged. For example, the ABC could work with the BC to attend any HOA meetings and possibly make a presentation.
- Determine if they have contacted their block, distributed forms, and mapped their neighborhood.
- Forward to BCs relevant communication from IBCCs and Command.
- During drills, check their ability to participate and evaluate effectiveness.
- Verify the Block Communication Site has been identified and communicated to the IBCC for use by neighborhood and Emergency Patrol.
- Encourage neighborhood get-togethers to discuss Emergency preparations and response.
- Encourage and assist in recruiting if possible.
Island Block Co-Coordinator (DRAFT) - Preparation
- Keep the Binder/Manual, lists up to date
- Obtain helpful material to hand out, such as the Bucket List. Make it easy to obtain.
- Make binder materials and updates easy to access (website idea was well-received)
- Figure out how to get the ABCs communicating more with their BC’s
- Set up a communications tier with the BC system – such as using Signal
- Serve as a training liaison
- During drills, support and help the ABC’s evaluate progress, and report to command
- Figure out how to make it easier for the ABC’s and the BC’s to help their neighborhoods.
- Provide feedback to Command on system operations and needs.
Last modified on: 3/25/2024