Free training from the Los Angeles Fire Department (CERT – Community Emergency Response Training). To sign up for this seven week course (1x week), call or email your Homeowners Association, 310-454-5245, admin@rivierahomeowners.com.
For more information go to: www.cert-la.com/EmergPrepBooklet.pdf

The Palisades Chamber of Commerce has also produced a very comprehensive folder for Emergency and Disaster Preparedness. Call Flo Elfant at 310-459-7963.
To access this information on-line, click on: www.palisadespost.com. Go to ‘helpful links’.

The following are just some of the tips and helpful hints involved in getting prepared:

Store one gallon of water per person per day. Rotate water supply every 6 months (do not store water bottles on concrete, put wood underneath)

Get a hardline phone (the old fashioned kind that does not require electricity)

While the shaking is going on...stay where you are. Take cover. After earthquake, go outside and look at house. Did it shift off foundation? Is gas leaking?

Family plan….this is what you do... Get your backpack, check in with neighbor and emergency numbers, where to meet, etc.

Get under something...triangle theory is wrong most of the time!

If you're in bed...cover head with a pillow or roll out of bed and lay next to bed if something could fall on you.

Crow bar under every bed & car

Backpack under every bed (*meds, clothes, flashlight, glow sticks, water, space blanket, uggs, whistle walkie talkies, batteries)

Always look to see how you can exit a place

Family picture w/ pets (show proof to pick up pets); Extra pet food; pet records

Thumbdrive
*scan important docs
*email docs to yourself
*passports, drivers license, bank statements, pet records

Generator (any neighbors have one?)

How to turn off gas
*only turn off if you smell gas or hear a hissing sound
*know how to re-light pilot & what appliances to turn on

Shut off electricity
Flip off individual switches
Then shut off the main

Tape a glow stick inside electrical panel and by gas shut off valve

Water shut off
Valve outside of the house...not main valve at street

Toilet tank...useable water for rinsing
Pool water...does anyone in the neighborhood have drinkable pool water?
Clorox bleach purifies water

Line toilet with trash bag to use toilet...Kitty litter in bag to absorb

CERT Program
Schedule training

Keep small denominations of cash available