BDPNN

Town Hall Meeting on public safety with Fire and Police
2017-06-08 19:00 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Northbrae Church, 971 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA, United States
Council person Susan Wengraf: “Every year I hold a forum on fire safety and crime. This year I will be combining the two, with the first half dedicated to fire danger and fire safety issues, and the second half to crime and public safety matters. The meeting will be co-hosted by Council member Hahn who now represents District 5.”

BDPNN: What We Do That CERT Doesn't
2017-06-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Berkeley CERT, 997 Cedar Street, Berkeley, California
How does BDPNN (Berkeley Disaster Preparedness Neighborhood Network) go beyond CERT? BDPNN is a nonprofit organization in Berkeley aimed at supporting overall community preparedness. Together BDPNN and CERT volunteers create a broad network of training and support for disaster preparedness. BDPNN board members Lynn Zummo and Dave Peattie will share the history of BDPNN, its mentorship program, and its expanded outreach to all the citizens of Berkeley. The format will be a relaxed dialogue with audience participation welcome.

Berkeley Disaster and Fire Safety Commission monthly meeting
2017-06-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Berkeley Fire Department Division of Training, 997 Cedar Street, Berkeley, CA, 94710
Participates in the review of emergency, disaster and mutual aid plans and agreements and makes recommendations to the City Council regarding legislation and regulations needed to implement such plans and agreements. The Commission is also empowered to register disaster workers.

BDPNN General Meeting
2017-06-29 18:30 - 20:30 | Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar Street, Berkeley, CA, 94709, United States
Topic: Evacuation Routes
Speakers: Steven Glasier with Berkeley Pathwanders and Keith May, Assistant Chief for Special Operations/Berkeley Fire Department

Disaster Prep Townhall
2017-07-16 16:00 - 17:00 | Church by the Side of the Road, 2108 Russell Street, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
District 3 Council Rep Ben Bartlett and BDPNN and Church by the Side of the Road invite you to come learn what resources are available to help you, your family, and your neighbors get prepared for disasters. BFD firetruck on hand!
Free food, drinks, and an emergency supply giveaway!

Solano Stroll
2017-09-10 10:00 - 17:00 | CA
Join us at our booth at the Solano Stroll, located on the NE corner of Colusa@Solano!

Sports Basement Preparedness Presentation
2017-09-16 11:00 - 13:00 | Sports Basement, 2727 Miliva Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

Berkeley's Changing Ground: Volcanoes, Landslides, and the Hayward Fault
2017-11-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Codornices Park, Berkeley
Berkeley Path Wanderers present
Berkeley’s Changing Ground: The Hayward Fault, Landslides, and Volcanoes
Andrew Alden
Start: Codornices Park Playground
The steep residential hills of North Berkeley owe their picturesque qualities to three great geological forces: tectonism (earthquake faulting), mass wasting (landslides), and volcanism (lava flows). Andrew, who has a blog that focuses on East Bay geology and is writing a book on the subject, will take us on a 3.3-mile route with informative stops at Berkeley’s distinctive rock parks. We’ll explore vivid signs of past volcanic activity — thankfully, no longer a threat! Along the way, we’ll also encounter evidence of giants in the Earth: large active landslides, the inexorable Hayward Fault, and marks left by mammoths during the Ice Age when Berkeley was even more unusual than it is today. Expect stairways and some hilly streets, which may be slippery with dead leaves.

The Big One was Yesterday—What Do I Do Today?
2017-11-30 18:30 - 20:30 | Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar Street, Berkeley, CA, 94709, United States
City of Berkeley’s OES resident disaster management specialist, Jennifer Lazo,will talk with us about what to do after you’ve all met at your neighborhood spot, the immediate injuries are attended to, fires are being handled as best as you can.
Now what? How do you get through the next days, weeks or even months?

Disaster and Fire Safety Commission meeting
2018-01-24 19:00 - 21:00, 2018-02-28 19:00 - 21:00, 2018-03-28 19:00 - 21:00, 2018-04-25 19:00 - 21:00, 2018-05-23 19:00 - 21:00, 2018-06-27 19:00 - 21:00, 2018-08-01 19:00 - 21:00, 2018-09-26 19:00 - 21:00 and 2 more dates | Berkeley Fire Department Division of Training, 997 Cedar Street, Berkeley, CA, 94710

BDPNN General Assembly | Red Cross Shelters
2018-03-29 18:30 - 20:30 | Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar Street, Berkeley, CA, 94709, United States
Richard Fateman of the Red Cross will discuss how the Red Cross plans and execute disaster response shelters, and what the specific needs and hurdles are for Berkeley. Come with your questions!

"Lessons from the Sonoma Fires: What Can Berkeley Learn"
2018-05-31 18:30 - 20:30 | Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar Street, Berkeley, CA, 94709, United States
As tragic as the Napa/Sonoma/Santa Rosa wildfires were, many areas of the Sonoma Valley were spared due to the low fuel load presence of the vineyards, and they provide extremely valuable lessons for us.
The communities of the East Bay are the closest urban areas to natural areas with the rating of “highest wildfire risk” in the state, hence the need for learning from the Sonoma Valley about what we can do and what we need to do.

We will have folks on hand beginning at 6 to answer questions and do some mentoring.
We also have some remaining inflatable solar Luci lights available: the Luci Original ($15) and the Luci EMRG ($10). Please bring cash or check.

Animal Disaster Preparedness and First Aid
2018-08-30 18:30 - 20:30 | Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar Street, Berkeley, CA, 94709, United States
Jenny Wenk has been a Registered Veterinary Technician who worked in both private veterinary clinics and with East Bay Humane Society. She is a volunteer for Berkeley Animal Care Services and is the current Chair of the City’s Personnel Board. She has 3 totally adorable (most of the time) cats (as she describes them). She is a long time CERT volunteer, so you may know her from all her emergency prep activities.
Her presentation combines basic disaster prep for our animal companions with some simple first aid; she’ll also give some tips on dealing with wildlife. Her reason for developing this talk:
We love these animals. They are members of our families. We saw after Katrina that some people died rather than abandon their dogs or cats. I want to help as many people and animals as possible survive whatever Nature has in store for us.
We’ll be at our usual meeting place, the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists (BFUU).
Time: 6:30 to 8:30 pm at the BFUU Fellowship Hall, corner of Cedar and Bonita. And per usual, we will have folks on hand beginning at 6 to answer questions and do some mentoring.

The Great Shakeout
2018-10-18 10:30 - 13:00 | Civic Center Park, 2151 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
The ShakeOut is a worldwide earthquake drill that provides everyone the opportunity to practice taking protective actions during an earthquake. The goal of the event is to create an interactive environment that will showcase important earthquake preparedness and safety resources for the Berkeley community and share earthquake readiness information with the media throughout the Bay Area.

Community-Based Disaster Prep Demo Fair
2018-10-20 10:00 - 14:00 | San Pablo Park, Berkeley, 2800 Park Street, Berkeley, CA, 94702, United States
A public community-based event to demonstrate that a cohesive and resilient community is the best beginning to prepare for and respond to a disaster.
This will be a family-friendly event, with a focus on seniors and people with disabilities.
Giveaways! Raffles! Games! Food!
Program: A grass-roots effort planned and executed by a coalition of community groups and individuals, featuring demonstrations of disaster response techniques, and information on how best to prepare for various scenarios. The event will focus not on fear but on the positive power of community.
Presenters:

Berkeley resident CERT instructors (Community Emergency Response Training)
Berkeley Disaster Prep Neighborhood Network
East Bay Disaster and Disability Rights Group
Berkeley Medical Reserve Corp (Cal student EMTs): Stop the Bleed!
Easy Does It Emergency Services (for people with disabilities and seniors)
NALCO (ham radio)
BeCERTAINN (radio operators)
Animal Disaster Prep and Care (Jenny Wenk, retired vet tech)
P&GE and EBMUD

and others.
Fire extinguisher service: BEST Equipment Co. will be there! $14.95 to service each fire extinguisher (not including hydro-test, which is required every 12 years); $51.00 each 5# Buckeye fire extinguisher (rated 3A40BC); $38.00 each 2-1/2# Buckeye fire extinguisher (rated 1A10BC). Price includes 9.25% sales tax. They accept Visa, M/C, American Express, checks and cash for payment.
Animal care service: We are planning on having low-cost ($10?) chipping service available. Note that if it’s determined that the animal is too young or is in too fearful a state, chipping may not be provided.
This meeting is being held in a wheelchair accessible location. If you require an accommodation for effective communications (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about mobility access resources in order to fully participate in this event, please email us at demofair@bdpnnetwork.org with as much advance notice as possible.
If you have questions or would like to volunteer, please contact us at demofair@bdpnnetwork.org!

Disaster Mental Health
2018-11-29 18:30 - 20:30 | Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar Street, Berkeley, CA, 94709, United States
One of the most lasting and damaging effects of a disaster is the trauma to one’s mental and emotional health, for those experiencing the disaster and to first responders.
Post-disaster mental trauma can be substantial; one study estimates the prevalence of PTSD at 30–40% among direct victims, 10–20% among rescue workers, and 5–10% in the general population.
Come learn about interventions to help disaster victims through a disaster, including children. Learn how to become a more resilient responder by learning how to manage mental health trauma and PTSD.
Barbara Morita is a retired Physician Assistant with 32 years of patient care in non-profit Community Health Centers in the East Bay. She brings direct medical disaster response experience to her presentations and weaves real response stories into the reasons for recommendations. Her disaster response experience includes Ground Zero/ World Trade Center, Superdome/ Hurricane Katrina, Haiti Earthquake, Shelter support/ California wildfires, and Indonesia after the great earthquake/ tsunami.

[Come at 6pm if you’d like some mentoring!]

BeCERTAINN: Repeater Radio Communications in a Disaster
2019-01-31 18:30 - 20:30 | Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar Street, Berkeley, CA, 94709, United States
How do we communicate in a large-scale emergency when traditional systems have been disrupted?
Geoff Lomax, one of the co-founders of BeCERTAINN, discusses an exciting new communication tool using “walkie talkies” for residents in the City of Berkeley. BeCERTAINN’s goal is to connect CERT Teams (neighborhood groups) to each other to improve our collective disaster response capacity and effectiveness.
BeCERTAINN, Berkeley CERT and Inter-Neighborhood Network is a city-wide amateur radio network designed to enable CERT Teams to communicate. BeCERTAINN combines General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) — a licensed radio service — with a radio repeater. The repeater is a combination of a radio receiver and a radio transmitter that enables CERT teams to receive and retransmit a signal from most locations in the City of Berkeley, covering much larger areas than traditional 2-way radio communication. Geoff will describe how the Network is being utilized by CERT teams, longer-term objectives, and how your and/or neighborhood can participate.
Additional background on the Network and development team may be found here: https://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/02/01/berkeley-neighbors-seek-to-widen-grassroots-emergency-radio-system
Then after Geoff’s presentation, BDPNN’s Lynn Zummo will explain how you can take emergency communication to the next level with ham (licensed amateur) radio and NALCO, the Northern Alameda County Amateur Radio Emergency Services and Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services. Learn what NALCO is and how they will be helping the City of Berkeley in a disaster.

Berkeley Ready: Get Prepped for a Quake
2019-02-06 17:30 - 18:30 | North Branch Berkeley Library, 1170 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA, 94707
Learn what to do before, during, and after an earthquake with tips for everyone in your household. FREE giveaways for attendees: snacks, mini-disaster kits, and emergency prep brochures.

City-wide Activation Drill (with BeCERTAINN)
2019-05-04 09:30 - 11:30 | CA
On May 4 (9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.) you can participate in a citywide (and beyond!) disaster drill!
Local disaster preparedness and emergency response teams will be conducting an “activation exercise.” Participants will include individuals, neighborhood CERT teams, and city-wide organizations involved in disaster response and preparedness. Participating individuals, groups, and organizations will have the opportunity to perform the following:

Review and update their emergency response procedures
Practice activating their emergency response plan(s)
Participate in exercises with other CERT groups and city-wide organizations

Sign up at the link below, and email info@bdpnnetwork.org if you have questions or are interested in volunteering. Once you sign up, we’ll send you scenarios that you can use to test how ready you, your family, your neighborhood, or CERT team are to respond to a large-scale emergency.
Because this will be a city-wide (and beyond) drill, we are providing a Google map (see below) that you can use to communicate with (in person) BeCERTAINN’s GMRS repeater radio group who’ll be participating as well. We’ll be practicing communicating both needs and available resources to a radio mesh.
If all of this sounds confusing, fear not! Individuals and groups who have never participated in an emergency drill are welcomed and encouraged to participate. You can make it as involved as is appropriate for your level of readiness!
This is all about community working together and communicating in times when professional first responders will be overwhelmed. Most people whose lives are saved in a large-scale disaster are saved by their neighbors! But knowing your neighbors and being connected with your community is vital to making that happen.
Join us! Signup: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeiavGQJUYwHwp8O4OWZOAoABjeMge2By1BBZAwwI38P1-jmA/viewform
Click here to view the PDF guidelines: Berkeley Disaster Activation Drill GUIDE 2019
BeCERTAINN’s GMRS flyer: May_Exercise_Background_2019
MAP:

Surviving Wildfires!
2019-05-30 18:30 - 20:00 | Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar Street, Berkeley, CA, 94709, United States
We have put together a panel of speakers to talk about steps you can take to prepare for and respond to a wildfire, including an update on home fire insurance, tailoring your evacuation checklist to your specific needs, and tips on evacuation.
After a brief presentation from each of the following presenters, there’ll be a Q&A session, and a chance to personalize your own wildfire prep and evacuation plan. The panel consists of:
• Keith May of the Berkeley Fire Department will provide an update on Berkeley’s latest evacuation plans, and provide a personal perspective of a community and wildfires.
• Gradiva Couzin, chair of the Disaster and Fire Safety Commission. Gradiva will provide the latest efforts and plans, including warning sirens, to better prepare Berkeley for a major wildfire.
• Peter Meza from the State of California’s Department of Insurance will discuss changes in fire insurance. Peter has extensive experience handling consumer complaints against insurance carriers due to wildfire claims and has also worked in FEMA centers following major California fires.
• Craig Hollis, a Berkeley born firefighter from the Capay Valley Fire Department, will discuss his first hand experience with wildfire evacuations.
• Representatives from the Grizzly Peak Hills group. This large neighborhood group recently ran an evacuation drill and will talk about their experience.
• Colleen Neff and Alina Constantinescu of the Berkeley Path Wanderers. They will be providing the latest info on the efforts to improve Berkeley’s many paths as a critical component of evacuation route options.
Each panelist will give a short presentation with an emphasis on what they consider to be their most important take-home message about responding to the risk of wildfires.

Creating a Citywide Network of Community HUBS for Disaster Response
2019-08-29 18:30 - 20:00 | Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar Street, Berkeley, CA, 94709, United States
After a disaster, our traditional communication tools go down — but our need to connect with one another only rises. How can we make sure Berkeley communities can communicate and organize efficiently after a disaster?
At this BDPNN quarterly meeting, you’ll hear about one simple and powerful idea that cities like Portland and Seattle are putting into place to connect communities after disaster strikes: creating a network of physical “hubs” throughout the city.
Can this idea work for Berkeley? How might it work in your community, and what challenges would it face? Come next Thursday, August 29th to hear about this potential community connection system and share your opinion on whether it’s right for Berkeley.
This idea can’t move forward without your feedback. Join this special BDPNN session to explore the potential of this innovative approach to community disaster response.
