National Preparedness Month is a nationwide effort to encourage you to take simple steps to prepare for emergencies and disasters in your home, business and school. Woodinville’s newly formed Citizen Corps Council is a nonprofit local chapter of the national Citizen Corps organization, created to support your efforts to prepare your family, your home and community for emergencies and disasters, along with supporting your crime prevention efforts in your neighborhood.

Woodinville Citizen Corps encourages everyone to:

Get a Kit

Create or purchase kits of emergency supplies that will allow you and your family to survive for at least three days in the event an emergency or disaster happens. Make sure you have supplies at home, in the car and at work and school. The kit should include basic items like water, food, battery powered radio, flash light and a first aid kit.

Make a Plan

Plan in advance what you and your family will do in an emergency.

Your plan should include a communications plan, including an out-of-state contact, address, sheltering-in-place, and evacuation, with reunion sites in and outside of your neighborhood.

Be Informed

Learn more about different threats that could affect our community and how to prepare and respond to them.

Get Involved

• Join Woodinville Citizen Corps Council. Call Nancy Hovan (206) 412-8194 nancyhovan@juno.com.
• Take Woodinville Fire’s Community Emergency Response Team (C.E.R.T.) class. Starting Sept. 15, learn to help your family and community with classes and hands on exercises in Disaster Preparedness, Small Fire Suppression, Disaster Medical, Light Search & Rescue, Disaster Psychology and Terrorism. Call Woodinville Fire and Life Safety District at (425) 483-2131 for additional information.
• Start a Neighborhood or Block Watch to prevent crime in your neighborhood. Call Jason Burt, City of Woodinville, at (425) 877-2285 or e-mail JasonB@ci.woodinville.wa.us.
• Get training in first aid and CPR through Woodinville Fire and Life Safety District or the Seattle Red Cross.

For More Information

• Call Woodinville Citizen Corps, Nancy Hovan (206) 412-8194 for vendors and other resources.
• Web Resources:
  • www. citizencorps.gov
  • www.wflsd.org
  • www.seattleredcross.org
  • www.ready.gov
  • www.metrokc.gov/prepare/
  • www.firewise.org
  • www.ci.woodinville.wa.us