Information about potential disasters in the Northwest, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, emergency planning and preparation and many other related topics can be found on the Internet. You may want to access one or another of the sites mentioned below as you prepare yourself and your family for a worst case scenario. We have included both comprehensive documents and topical at-a-glance recommendations here. Do what you can to remain healthy, stay informed, plan ahead, prepare gear and kits to enable sheltering in place, and learn how to remain safe in an emergency. All of this will increase your chance of survival.
Click to on this boldfaced title to access a single-page Family Emergency Preparedness Checklist which offers five useful recommendations.
Click to on this boldfaced title to access a single-page Car Emergency Kit Checklist recommending supplies for survival, roadside emergencies, and winter car emergencies.
Click to on this boldfaced title to access a Kit Lists of All Kinds page on Clallam County's Emergency Management Division website.
Click to on this boldfaced title to access a single-page Emergency Documents Checklist recommending you safely set aside copies of important family, financial, property, legal and medical documents.
Click to on this boldfaced title to access information presented by Clallam County's Emergency Management Division about Preparing for Disasters.
Click to on this boldfaced title to access information presented by Clallam County's Emergency Management Division about Water Acquisition and Storage.
Click to on this boldfaced title to access information about Water Pipes, presented by Clallam County's Emergency Management Division.
Click to on this boldfaced title to access information reminding us that Carbon Dioxide Can Be Deadly and precautions should be taken.
Click to on this boldfaced title to access information about How to Safely Turn Off Utilities After a Disaster , including natural gas, electricity and water.
Click on this boldfaced heading to access a set of instructions showing How to Make a Field Expedient Personal Protective Surgical Gown for health care workers and/or first responders in a time of need. If you have questions about these instructions or where to deliver completed gowns, please contact JEPP using the "Contact JEPP" form" on this site (look to the top right hand corner on the home page).
Click on this boldface title to access an Earthquake Tracker at MyNorthwest that provides current information about the latest earthquakes recorded around the Seattle area.
Click on this boldface title to access Clallm County Tsunami Evacuation Maps presented by Clallam County's Emergency Management Division.
DART: at www.clallamdart.com, (click blue boldface at left to open), "a volunteer airlift resource available to help communities and emergency responders cope with a local disaster," and a JEPP partner. Its concept of operations reads, ""Pilots do what they already know how to do - fly from once place to another and give people or things a ride," and its mission, "In response to a cataclysmic event which degrades regional surface transportation, local pilots and their aircraft can provide volunteer emergency airlift services to benefit their surrounding communities."
Earthquake and Tsunami Info
Emergency Radio Communications
Listen to NOAA Weather Radio or your local radio station for information on shelter locations and emergency broadcasts. Click here to access: Wireless Emergency Alert Information