In last week’s blog we discussed September being National Preparedness Month and how every citizen in this country is encouraged to begin, develop or enhance their steps towards being ready for the unknown. One of the campaign themes is the concept of taking one action each day of the month to increase your level of personal preparedness. This is known as the “30 Days 30 Ways” initiative and began at the beginning of the month. Understanding we are already nearly half way through September, you may either choose to take the elevated UC challenge “15 Days 30 Ways” or just begin the program today on Day 14 and complete the subsequent tasks for the remainder of the month. A new task is posted on each day of the month so as of today there are 14 activities identified. The website can be found at the following link:
http://30days30ways.com/public_html/30days30ways/
An alternative to either of these commitments is to use this website and pick and choose those preparedness tasks that are most important and relevant to you/your family’s situation. Some of the activities that have already been listed for this month include the following:
• Contact your out-of-state contact and informing them you will be contacting them in a disaster.
• Sign up for mass notification messaging for your respective community (for Orange County residents visit Alert OC at http://bos.ocgov.com/alertoc/alertoc.asp & all UCI students, staff and faculty should verify that they are signed up to receive zotALERT notifications for local incidents here on campus as http://www.oit.uci.edu/zotALERT/).
• Connect with and follow first responder agencies on social media. You can begin by connecting with UCI Police department at the links below.
• Identify one or more causes of home fires and take one or more mitigation steps to reduce this risk in your own home.
• Take a picture and post it on social media of the most unique item in your emergency supply kit/go bag.
The “30 Days 30 Ways” website provides some fun ways you can post your tasks to social media and share with friends/family the commitments that you have made towards preparedness and increasing community resiliency. Lastly, check out the following video (remix) that was put together for National Preparedness Month 2015 @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlRxf0-HBe0&feature=youtu.be
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