Issaquah CERT - Map Your Neighborhood

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The CERT program educates community members like you how to prepare and respond when a major event happens by training people in basic disaster preparedness and response skills to take care of themselves, their family, their neighborhood, and the community.

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Map Your Neighborhood

Neighborhoods that are prepared for emergencies and disaster situations save lives, reduce the severity of injuries and trauma and reduce property damage. In addition, contributing as an individual and working together as a team helps develop stronger communities and improve the quality of life in the community.

The Map Your Neighborhood program guides you and your neighbors through simple steps to help enhance your preparedness for an emergency. These steps will help you to quickly and safely take actions that can minimize damage and protect lives.

Map Your Neighborhood is designed to improve disaster readiness at the neighborhood level and teaches neighbors to rely on each other during the hours or days before fire, medical, police, or utility responders arrive

Issaquah CERT will work with you to schedule a time that a representative can meet with you and your neighbors to discuss Map Your Neighborhood. This is an excellent opportunity to meet your neighbors and learn what skills and tools are available in times of emergency.

You may not know that your neighbor is a contractor and can help stabilize structural damage. Do you have a chainsaw and can help clear downed trees and limbs? What about the one house with the weird antennas? They may be radio operators and can communicate for you when normal communication methods are down.

Make the time to learn this important information now, before an emergency happens and it's too late.

For more information
regarding the Issaquah MYN program,
contact Jared Schneider,
Emergency Manager, Issaquah

Map Your Neighborhood - Useful Resources

Local Resources

City of Issaquah - Map Your Neighborhood
Detailed Emergency Plan

General

Washington Military Department - Emergency Management Division - Washington MYN and supporting material. Some key documents are listed below
Overview of MYN - Two page (front and back) summary of MYN
MYN Discussion Guide - More extensive material on how to conduct your neighborhood preparedness meeting
Prepare Your Family and Pets Over the Coure of a Year - Steps to take in preparing your family and pets in a disaster in a reasonable amount of time
MYN Contact List (Template) - Word document for listing neighborhood contacts
MYN Invitation.docx - Download Word document for inviting the neighborhood to the MYN overview
YouTube - Map Your Neighborhood Introduction Video - An additional 10 videos are also on YouTube

Contact:

info@issaquahcert.org

Post Office Box 2365
Issaquah, Washington 98029

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