Flood season is coming. Fire season is here. Learn how to keep your family and community safe.

Click here for information on protecting your family and yourself from the damage caused by  floods.

Click here for information on protecting your family and yourself from the damage caused by earthquakes.

 

Let the American Red Cross help you get prepared! 

• Make a plan - Together, We Prepare (click here for a PDF plan )
• Build a kit (click here )
• Get trained  (click here to view course information and schedule for July-December, 2009. Online registration is not currently available. To register call 707-577-7600, Sonoma County, or 707-463-0112, Mendocino County.)

Along with other organizations like the Volunteer Center of Sonoma County and the Salvation Army, the Red Cross has many resources to help you get prepared.

• Disaster Preparedness Training: How to make a disaster plan, build a disaster kit (ARC, SA, VC)

  • Community Disaster Education presentations to schools, businesses, community organizations, places of faith, mobile home parks, apartment complexes, on how to make a disaster plan and build or purchase a disaster kit. Presentations run approximately 30-45 minutes and are offered during the days and evenings. (ARC). Free
  • Prepare your non-profit for the next disaster (VC) $
  • Prepare your family or community organization for the next disaster (SA) Free
    

• Community Emergency Response Training (CERT) (ARC,VC)

  • Get trained and work as a team to increase the safety of your family and community. Learn disaster fire suppression, basic disaster medical operations, light search and rescue, and team operations. $
    

• Become a Trained Disaster Response Specialist (ARC)

  • Train to work in a shelter, provide client casework and financial assistance to disaster victims, serve as a Red Cross nurse or mental health specialist, provide logistics and public relations during a local disaster or a major event anywhere in the United States. Free
    
• First Aid/CPR (adult, infant and children) (ARC)
  • Increase the safety and security of your home, family, business and community by learning how to provide First Aid and CPR $

Disaster Preparedness supplies and equipment are also available (ARC) $

• First Aid kits for the family, car, community organization or business
• Safety tubes that fit under your desk at home or office
• Disaster Preparedness kits for one, two or four people
• Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs): lifesaving devices for use by trained laypeople immediately after has suffered a sudden cardiac arrest.

American Red Cross, Sonoma & Mendocino Counties (ARC):

Supplies - Telephone: 577-7600

Training - Telephone: 577-7603

website - www.arcsm.org

CERT

Training - Telephone: 577-7636

Volunteer Center: (VC)

Training - Telephone: 577-3399, ext.115

Website: www.volunteernow.org

Salvation Army: (SA)

Training - Telephone: 542-0981

 

Legend: Free = No cost to client, $ = Fee for service