Monthly Archives: June 2011

Next milestone on the preparedness initiative timeline

This Tuesday, June  21, at 2 PM is the next milestone in the Emergency Preparedness Initiative. Each of the initiative meetings will be held in Council Chambers, on the second floor of City Hall at 600 Fourth Avenue. All Seattle City … Continue reading

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Temporary downtime for West Seattle Be Prepared website

FYI, our West Seattle Be Prepared website will be temporarily offline starting around midnight this evening. The webhost is migrating the site to a new server & sent reassurances that it should be back up a few hours later – … Continue reading

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Seattle has launched an emergency preparedness initiative

On Monday, June 13th, the Seattle City Council held the first in a series of briefings on emergency preparedness. Here’s the press release about the initiative, which includes a calendar of all milestones – briefing dates, presenters & topics. (FYI, we’ve added them … Continue reading

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Dates on our event calendar!

Summer is outreach season for us! Here’s a list of summer events we’ll be attending: June 23rd, 5:30 – 8 PM, Mayor’s Southwest Town Hall event at Hiawatha Community Center; we’ll have an informational table there, along with other community groups. … Continue reading

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Updated map showing 11 WS emergency communication hubs!

As you may recall, at our May 7th drill we tested radio communications from a new West Seattle hub in north Delridge.  We’ve now updated our map to show that new hub, as well as another new one in High … Continue reading

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