Marrowstone Island Resiliency
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We are grateful to Pete Hubbard for sharing this content MIF is highlighting and collecting for our community.
If you have landed here, be sure to dive deeper with Jefferson County Department of Emergency Management and the NPREP Local 20/20 Action Group on emergency preparation for you, your family, your neighborhood, and our local community.
RESILIENCE THROUGH DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
The Jefferson County’s Department of Emergency Management is organizing regular presentations covering a variety of important disaster and emergency preparedness topics. These talks are starting out in learning about disaster preparedness. We will be sharing general preparedness tips!
Join us if you’ve already taken steps in preparing for disasters. This is a great opportunity to refresh your knowledge and connect with others in the community doing the same. You can find more information about this event on the
Better: We’re On Our Own Together (WOOOT)
Planning Starts Now
Jefferson County’s (JC) population is approximately 33,000. We estimate the JC population of emergency responders (fire fighters, EMT, police) and medical staff to be 130-195 people. Many may not be available during a emergency event. Even if all of those responders were available, you must conclude that you could be on your own for hours, days, weeks, or months - depending on the emergency or disaster.
However, if you were in an organized neighborhood, your neighborhood may have (or can develop) the skills and resources to respond and recover together, like a team!
We’re On Our Own Together (WOOOT)
THINK, PLAN, DO! Repeat
Created by Jefferson County Department of Emergency Management
“THINK, PLAN, DO! Repeat".
It is best to download the PDF (save to your smartphone for offline use) as this valuable document is a comprehensive guide for disaster preparedness within our county.
VIDEOS
Be prepared to be on your own at home for 30 days.
Jefferson County DEM has these following links to download brochures they created to help you get set up:
- Shelter in Place: Food, Water, and Vehicle and Office Grab-and-Go Kits
- Pet Grab-and-Go Kit
- Sanitation: Twin Bucket Septic System!
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Its all about our Island Neighborhood
“Neighbors Helping Neighbors” (NHN) is a guide by JC DEM that can help everyone in your neighborhood (including farm and remote areas) to become better prepared for emergencies affecting Jefferson County.
Neighborhood Preparedness
Do you live in a neighborhood that is organized for disaster preparedness?
Organized neighborhoods and Hubs are included in the Jefferson County and Port Townsend Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan.
While we all need to be responsible for being personally prepared, you are not really “on your own” if you make these preparations with your neighbors. That is where Neighborhood Preparedness NPREP can help! There are currently over 100 neighborhoods NPREP ready here in Jefferson County.
Neighborhood organizers can attend informational and training meetings where relationships can be forged with representatives from all our public agencies who will be actively involved in disaster response and recovery.
See a map of our county neighborhoods here.
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