VILLA MARINA DPC "To educate about disaster preparedness in the Villa Marina Community"
	To our fellow Villa Marina Residents, The Villa Marina Council has organized the Villa Marina Disaster Preparedness Committee (DPC) to help you and the community be prepared for an Earthquake or Tsunami. We will be helping the community prepare for a disaster on 3 levels: 1. Your Home – Educating you on what you need to prepare; 2. Your Villa – Building an Emergency Kit and processes for our Villa; and 3. Villa Marina – Building a Community Emergency Kit and processes for the community. As part of this strategy, we are starting to organize each Villa with Villa co-Captains and Helpers. Villa co-Captains will be organizing and collecting key information about their Villa, the number of CERT trained (more on this later) and radio amateur neighbors capable of mobilizing in case of a disaster and others willing to help out after a disaster happens.  Since a disaster will affect everybody, you are highly encouraged to participate with the Villa Marina DPC committee. Villa Marina DPC holds regular meetings. Typically, these meetings are no longer than 2 hours per month and you will be not only helping your neighbors, but yourself! (Besides, there is something to do for all ages!!). Many of us are also going to take the CERT Training (Community Emergency Response Training) conducted by the Los Angeles Fire Department.  More about this below. This is another great way just to learn something you did not know to protect yourself, your family and if you want to, others! If you cannot make our meetings, but think you can help out in some form or another, please let your Villa Captain (whom you are responsible to chose) know by stating on the attached form how you may want to participate. For further information email the Villa Marina DPC’s Chairman, Joe Campanella at: dpc@villamarinacouncil.com To help better prepare for and respond to disaster situations, Villa Captains may request and collect emergency information about you, your family and your pets that you care to provide. We also want to know if you have certain tools, training and specialist skills that can be leveraged in case of an emergency. The attached form is designed to collect information relevant to this task that may enable us to help you and your family when you really need it. (How much help and information you are willing to give is, of course, up to you). Your co-operation is very much appreciated. Get form via link below: Villa Marina Emergency Information Form We Need YOUR Help/YOU need OUR help! We are hoping to be able to help disseminate what we have learnt in disaster preparedness for each individual to prepare their personal and family home/car kits.  These items include personal use water, food, comfort, hygiene and medical supplies etc. See links below: http://www.cert-la.com/education/English_bkmk.pdf http://www.cert-la.com/ESP/ESP-Checklist-Brochure2006.pdf http://www.cert-la.com/education/EmergencyKit.pdf The LAFD Emergency Preparedness Booklet (dist by Capt Gerlich) Earthquakes: Earthquakes-PM-Rev2.pdf Tsunamis: Tsunami Escape Information for Marina del Rey.pdf Tsunamis-PM-Rev2.pdf In addition, the Villa Marina Council will debate budgeting for certain communal emergency items to be kept by each villa.  These may include an emergency generator, loudhailer, tarps, advanced first aid and triage kits, stretcher etc. CERT Our first response Team: CERT is our Community's Emergency Response Team.  Members are volunteer neighbors from our community who have taken preparedness-training classes at Battalion 4 (Division 2, Fire Station 5 LAX, MDR and Venice Beach ) of the LA City Fire Department, under whose command they operate to support our community in cases of disaster. Some members then proceed to take Red Cross training courses in first aid, CPR, AED and other relevant skills to achieve level 2 and 3certification.  In county areas around us, CERT members will often be under the command of the LA County Sheriff's department and form part of an integrated National Response Plan using a standardized Incident Command System that escalates from city to county, then federal resource level, depending on the scale of the disaster, thus integrating all resources necessary and involving the appropriate agencies under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security. A disaster (such as a large earthquake or tsunami) may be defined as a situation where the number of people needing help overwhelms the number of those available or able to provide it.  In such situations, normal infrastructures (such as local ambulance and fire service) may fail or be unable to show up due to priorities elsewhere or breakdown of transportation.  In such eventualities as were witnessed in Katrina and other disasters nationwide, help may take up to 5 days or more to arrive. Power, water, communications channels such as cell phones or landlines and even food distribution to supermarkets, may be disrupted.  Everyone should have their own emergency supplies of 1gallon of water per day per person (or pet) for 3-7days, plus food and other resources as recommended on the following links. For CERT Training requests in groups organized by Villa Marina, write to: dpc@villamarinacouncil.com The next CERT1 class starts October 20 for seven weeks. For level 2 requirements, see American Red Cross all-day first aid/CPR/AED courses on: http://redcrossla.org/classes/class-schedule?courseID=HSSFA414 e.g. Saturday October 3rd. This class has a fee. You will also need to take "Fulfilling our Mission" and classes for "Mass Care Overview, Shelter Operations and Simulations", which are offered free of charge. See a schedule and venue that suits you on the American Red Cross course calendar. http://www.cert-la.com/calendar/calendar.cgi?calendar=levels For general information on CERT, look up the following external link:          http://www.cert-la.com/index.shtml Emergency communications services may be provided by local licensed amateur radio operators and Villa Marina will benefit from organizing an emergency amateur radio club by identifying those among us who have an FCC license to operate and also belong to emergency and disaster response programs such as the CA Auxiliary Communications Services for CA or LA County with RACES or ARES. CAACS
	http://www.cert-la.com/education/English_bkmk.pdf http://www.cert-la.com/ESP/ESP-Checklist-Brochure2006.pdf http://www.cert-la.com/education/EmergencyKit.pdf

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	Useful Links Emergencies and other City Services: Call 911 for Emergencies (Fire, medical, Police:  Any situation directly endangering human life or property and demanding immediate attention) Call 311 for non-emergency city wide services or go to http://publiccsd.lacity.org/CSD/index.cfm California State Wide Emergency Bulletins http://edis.oes.ca.gov/ Local hospital ER: Call 310-823-8911 Marina Del Rey Hospital, Marina Del Rey, 4650 Lincoln Blvd. , corner of Mindanao http://www.marinahospital.com/ American Red Cross:             Call (888) 737-4306 press option 6 for local disaster Action Team response http://redcrossla.org/emergencyservices/disaster-assistance Earthquakes: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/ Incident/Fire Maps: http://www.inciweb.org/ http://www.fire.lacounty.gov/ http://www.fire.lacounty.gov/Forestry/FireWeatherDangerMap.asp Weather: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ Red Flag Alert http://www.lafd.org/redflag/ Air Quality http://airnow.gov/ Water/Drought: http://cdec.water.ca.gov/ Utilities: Call1-800-DIAL-DWP 1-800-342-5397 http://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/homepage.jsp Local News:  KNX1070 (AM 1070 kHz) is a local news station:  http://player.play.it/player/player.html?id=95&onestat=knx Los Angeles County and nearby city resources: Sheriff's Department Emergency: Call 911 Non-emergency: Call 310-482-6000 http://www.lasd.org/stations/for2/mdr/index.html Marina Del Rey Coastal Monitoring http://watchthewater.org/beach.cfm?bid=42             Water Quality/Environmental Health: http://lapublichealth.org/phcommon/public/eh/water_quality/beach_grades.cfm Local Police Emergency: Call 911 Five Points of Contact - LAPD.pdf Culver City Police Department Non-Emergency: Call (310) 837-1221 Animal Services: Call (310) 253-6143 (more information) Address: 4040 Duquesne Avenue , Culver City , CA 90232 The Culver City Police Department is a full service law enforcement agency consisting of 117 dedicated men and women. http://www.culvercitypolice.com/index.asp Los Angeles City Emergency Plan LAEP CA State Resources: Governor's Office of Emergency Services http://www.oes.ca.gov/ California State Emergency Plan CAEP Federal Resources: FEMA& National Response Framework http://www.fema.gov/about/index.shtm http://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nrf/nrf-overview.pdf
	From DHS FEMA National Response Framework Overview Document http://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nrf/nrf-overview.pdf (NB  Many hierarchies are subject to change and there may be errors in our interpretation of the directives; please verify independently from your own sources and do not rely on this indicative information alone.)

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