Carmel Prepares

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Community Safety Series 

•  Ready, Set, Defend! Saturday, June 21, 2025, Sunset Cultural Center, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. 

Defensible Space, Home Hardening, & Fire Extinguisher Training, Learn how to protect your home and yourself with expert advice, great raffle prizes, and breakfast! Let’s get prepared and stay safe!

• Build Your Kit, Boost Your Skills Saturday, September 6, 2025, Sunset Cultural Center, 10:00-11:00 a.m. 

Disaster Kits & First Aid Training, Learn how to build a Disaster Kit, Basic First Aid Skills, and AED Training with expert advice. Enter to win great raffle prizes, and enjoy breakfast! Let’s get prepared and stay safe!

• Winter Ready, Prepare to Help Saturday, November 8, 2025, Sunset Cultural Center, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. 

 Winter Storm Tips & Hands-Only CPR, Winter is coming! Learn how to prepared ahead of storms and how to perform Hands Only CPR from the experts. Enter to win great raffle prizes and enjoy breakfast! Let’s get prepared and stay safe!

• Sign-up for Alert Monterey County and sign up for Nixle by texting your zip code to 888777 to enroll to receive notifications from our police, fire, and city to let you know about road closures and other emergencies with real-time updates on your cell phone, email, or both.
• Sign-up for Earthquake Alerts from Earthquake Warning California, the country’s first publicly available, statewide warning system managed by the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) that uses ground motion sensors from across the state to detect earthquakes before humans can feel them and can notify Californians to “Drop, Cover and Hold On” in advance of an earthquake. 
• Bookmark the PG&E Power Outage Map for easy access. 
• Bookmark the Food Safety for Power Outages to find out what you can do to keep food safe during a power outage, and when you need to throw away food that could make you sick.
• Print out (or stop by the library for a copy) the City’s Evacuation Routes to put on your fridge and in your car for quick access if needed. 
• Print out (or stop by the library for a copy) the Carmel Emergency Preparedness Quick Guide  to put on your fridge, so you have important info handy. 
• Print out (or stop by the library for a copy) Emergency Kit Supply List to help you start building up your cache of emergency supplies.
• Prepare for wildfires with help from Fire Safe Council for Monterey County to learn how to reduce the risk of loss of life, property, and resources from wildfires, and to educate everyone on wildfire dangers and how to reduce them.
• Check out the Workshop Slides from the January 6, 2024 Carmel Prepares presentation. 
• Participation in Events & Trainings organized by the City and Carmel CERT throughout the year.

Having a Business Continuity Plan is an important part of your organization’s risk-management efforts.

We also know that you are busy and that preparing a plan takes time and effort. Ideally, you already have an up-to-date plan. If not, please use one of the following resources to kickstart your team’s conversation about preparedness.

• Get to know FEMA’s national disaster recovery framework and the economic recovery support function.
• Start to build your plan with workbook templates from the US Chamber of Commerce. 
• And/or check out small business disaster recovery plan from Insurance Information Institute’s for more ideas. 

Saturday, June 1, 2024 – Comunity Wildfire Protection Plan 

Saturday, November 19, 2024 – Winter Storm Preparedness