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Here's How to Sign Up in Your County","publishDate":1725115259,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Will You Get the Emergency Alerts You Need? Here’s How to Sign Up in Your County | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Natural disasters \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/disaster/how-declared\">have affected\u003c/a> nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/advisor/homeowners-insurance/counties-most-at-risk-for-natural-disasters/\">90% of U.S. counties\u003c/a> since 2013, and while many households know about preparing emergency kits, a \u003ca href=\"https://community.fema.gov/PreparednessConnect/s/article/Results-from-the-2023-National-Household-Survey-on-Disaster-Preparedness\">recent FEMA survey\u003c/a> found a large drop in how many people are signed up to receive emergency alerts and warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early warning systems \u003ca href=\"https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/early-warnings-for-all#:~:text=Early%20warning%20systems%20have%20proven,%243%20to%20%2416%20billion%20annually\">save lives during disasters\u003c/a>. To ensure you can receive these warnings via your phone, text, or email, we recommend turning on your phone’s alerts and signing up for your county’s emergency alert system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>QUICK LINKS\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/08/california-emergency-alerts/#on-iphones\">Turn on your iPhone’s Wireless Emergency Alerts\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/08/california-emergency-alerts/#on-androids\">Turn on your Android’s Wireless Emergency Alerts\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/08/california-emergency-alerts/#how-to-sign-up-for-your-countys-alerts\">Sign up for your county’s alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Turn on your phone’s emergency alerts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wireless Emergency Alerts (\u003ca href=\"https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/wireless-emergency-alerts-wea\">WEAs\u003c/a>) are one-way authorities spread information to the community during an emergency. Most mobile phones are \u003ca href=\"https://www.verizon.com/support/wireless-emergency-alerts-compatible-devices/\">WEA-capable devices\u003c/a>, and alerts are typically enabled by default. But if you’ve ever received an alert or test alert, there’s a chance you may have disabled them after hearing their signature alarm: an insistent and loud blare, accompanied by vibrations, that goes off on every phone in your vicinity. You can turn off some of the alerts you don’t want while receiving the ones you do, so it’s worth checking your phone’s settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WEAs use cell towers to send notifications to all WEA-capable mobile phones within a specified target area, meaning you receive alerts for your current location, not your home address. WEAs may also occasionally reach some community members \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/practitioners/integrated-public-alert-warning-system/public/wireless-emergency-alerts/geographic-accuracy-wea\">outside the target area\u003c/a>, depending on the phones’ technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how to make sure your phone can receive WEAs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On iPhones\u003c/h2>\n\u003col class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Navigate to iPhone \u003cstrong>Settings\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Select \u003cstrong>Notifications\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Scroll to the bottom of the \u003cstrong>Notifications\u003c/strong> section to \u003cstrong>GOVERNMENT ALERTS\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Next to \u003cstrong>Public Safety Alerts\u003c/strong>, toggle the button on (it turns green). These alerts \u003ca href=\"https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/wireless-emergency-alerts-wea\">convey\u003c/a> “recommendations for saving lives and property.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Select \u003cstrong>Emergency Alerts\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On the following screen, ensure that \u003cstrong>Emergency Alerts\u003c/strong> are toggled on.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003cstrong>Local Awareness\u003c/strong> option improves the timeliness and accuracy of emergency alerts in the United States, \u003ca href=\"https://support.apple.com/en-us/102516\">according to Apple\u003c/a>. Toggle to enable or disable.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>Here’s \u003ca href=\"https://support.apple.com/en-us/102516\">Apple’s page\u003c/a> on how to turn on emergency alerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On Androids\u003c/h2>\n\u003col class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Navigate to Android \u003cstrong>Settings\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Scroll down and select \u003cstrong>Safety & emergency\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Select \u003cstrong>Wireless emergency alerts \u003c/strong>at the bottom of the screen.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On the following screen, ensure that \u003cstrong>Allow alerts\u003c/strong> is toggled on.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Toggle \u003cstrong>Extreme threats\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Severe threats\u003c/strong> to enable or disable alerts for threats to life and property.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Toggle \u003cstrong>Public safety messages\u003c/strong> to enable or disable alerts with recommended actions to save lives or property.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>You can also visit this \u003ca href=\"https://support.google.com/android/answer/9319337?hl=en#zippy=\">“Android Help”\u003c/a> page and select the blue “Control emergency broadcast notifications” option for instructions on how to manage WEA alert settings on Android.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Local text or email alerts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Authorities may not always use WEAs to circulate information, so it’s also important to enroll in your local government’s emergency alert system. During the deadly 2018 Camp Fire in California, authorities issued evacuation orders through Butte County’s emergency alerts, door-knocking, vehicle-mounted speakers, and social media posts — but did not send any WEAs. At the time, fewer than 40% of residents in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2019/10/paradise-california-camp-fire-anniversary-cleanup/\">Paradise, one of the towns destroyed in the fire\u003c/a>, had signed up for the county’s alerts, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/TechnicalNotes/NIST.TN.2252.pdf\">2023 report (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://riversideca.gov/readyriverside/be-informed/alerts-warnings/alerts-warnings\">Riverside County’s alerts and warnings page\u003c/a>, “Wireless Emergency Alerts are important, but some of the most locally-specific and timely information can come from opt-in mass notification services like RiversideAlert.” Although some of these systems automatically enroll landline numbers, Californians must opt in to receive notifications on their mobile devices or via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no standardized emergency alert system across the United States; the enrollment process and your notification system’s features differ based on where you live. Different governments’ mass notification systems may include different types of alerts. Some only notify you in extreme situations, such as disaster evacuations, while others may also send alerts for missing persons or police activity. Note what kind of alerts your local system offers before signing up, and keep in mind you can often choose what type of alerts you’d like to receive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11999982,news_11971374,news_11834901\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Users will typically be asked to provide their mobile number, email, and street address. Many emergency alert systems have the option to register multiple street addresses, allowing you to keep tabs on other significant locations like your workplace or kids’ schools. Some also allow you to customize whether you’d like to receive alerts via phone call, text message, or email and offer language and accessibility options. If customization options are not offered during initial enrollment, you may be able to log in after enrolling to change your settings and add additional information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency alert systems are often run through third parties. Common ones include OnSolve CodeRED, Everbridge, Rave Mobile Safety’s Smart 911, and Genasys. If your local government uses a third-party system, you will generally be directed to that company’s website to enroll. Once you receive an emergency alert (or a signup confirmation), we recommend that you save the number to your Contacts and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/26/20883331/iphone-do-not-disturb-mode-exceptions-how-to\">exclude it from being blocked\u003c/a> when using your cell phone’s Do Not Disturb features.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you’ve signed up for alerts previously, it’s worth checking to make sure you’re still registered with your county. Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.shastacounty.gov/community/page/alertshasta-shasta-countys-new-public-warning-system\">governments\u003c/a> may have \u003ca href=\"https://humboldtgov.org/2014/Emergency-Notifications\">transitioned\u003c/a> to new systems and might not have migrated residents’ information.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">How to sign up for your county’s alerts\u003c/span>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Follow our instructions below to sign up for the most up-to-date alerts as of August 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">The list only includes information for California counties’ primary emergency alert systems. Some local governments may offer additional alerts through systems like Nixle or Notify Me, but no county in California uses either of these as its primary emergency alert system. If you are only registered with Nixle or Notify Me, you may miss crucial emergency alerts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>Find your county\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.acgov.org/ready/connect.htm\">Alameda County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the black “AC ALERT” box, click on the yellow “Subscribe” button to get to an Everbridge registration portal. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.alpinecountyca.gov/204/Sheriff\">Alpine County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the “SIGN UP FOR REVERSE 911” section, follow the blue Douglas County link, then click “Proceed to Site.” Check the box next to “Yes, I agree” to agree to the terms, then click “Continue” to proceed to the Douglas County, Nev. registration portal. Enter your information to enroll. Alpine County Public Information Officer JT Chevallier confirmed to CalMatters that the county uses the Douglas County system to send emergency alerts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.amadorgov.org/departments/office-of-emergency-services/amador-county-emergency-alerts\">Amador County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click on the blue “Amador County Emergency Alerts” link toward the bottom of the page to get to the Smart911 registration portal. Click on the green “SIGN UP NOW” button to create an account. If you previously registered with the CodeRED system, Amador County encourages you to register with the current system, Amador County Emergency Alerts, to continue receiving emergency notifications.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.buttecounty.net/1757/Be-Prepared\">Butte County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click on the green “Sign up for BCSO CodeRED Notifications” link and select the “Proceed to Site” button to get to the CodeRED registration portal. Creating a managed account allows you to change notification settings in the future and add additional addresses. You can also create a guest account. In addition to emergency notifications, you can choose to receive “General Notifications” and severe weather alerts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://fireprevention.calaverasgov.us/Emergency-Alerts\">Calaveras County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click on the “SIGN UP FOR CALAVERAS ALERT” image to get to the Everbridge registration portal. Click the blue “SIGN UP HERE” link to create a new account. You can choose to receive severe weather alerts and customize the alert delivery method.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://countyofcolusa.org/64/Emergency-Alert\">Colusa County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Under the “Our Emergency Alerts” section, click the green “Sign up for Emergency alerts from RAVE Mobile” link to get to the Rave registration portal. Click on the green “REGISTER” button in the upper right-hand corner. Follow the instructions to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/5435/Public-Safety-Emergency-Info\">Contra Costa County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click on the “Community Warning System” link. In the black box with a yellow alert icon, click “Register to Receive Emergency Alerts” to get to the emergency alert system site. Click “Acknowledge” to proceed, then enter your information to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.co.del-norte.ca.us/CommunityAlertSystem\">Del Norte County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the “SIGN UP NOW!” link in the Del Norte Community Alert System Section to get to the Everbridge registration portal. Create an account, then follow instructions to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.eldoradocounty.ca.gov/Home/Tabs/Emergency-Alert-System\">El Dorado County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the blue “Alert Notification System ‘RAVE’” link to get to the sign-up instructions page. Update your Contacts with the emergency alerts phone number listed under the “Save El Dorado County Emergency Alerts in your Contacts” section. Under “New Users,” select the “CLICK HERE” link to proceed to a Smart911 registration portal. Follow the instructions to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.fresnocountyca.gov/Resources/Fresno-County-Emergency\">Fresno County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the black “Register to receive Emergency Alerts” button, located in a red box. Click the button to proceed to the Everbridge registration portal. Create an account, then follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.countyofglenn.net/government/departments/sheriff/office-emergency-services\">Glenn County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the blue “Sign up for CodeRed Emergency Alerts” link. Click the link, then click “OK” to proceed to the CodeRED registration portal. Creating a managed account that allows you to change notification settings in the future and add additional addresses. You can also create a guest account. In addition to emergency notifications, you can choose to receive “General Notifications” and severe weather alerts. Alerts can be received in English or Spanish.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://humboldtgov.org/2014/Emergency-Notifications\">Humboldt County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to read Humboldt Alert Sign Up Instructions or click on the “SIGN UP FOR NOTIFICATIONS” button to proceed to the Everbridge registration portal. Click on the red “SIGN UP HERE” link to create a new account. You can add up to five addresses, include pertinent information about family members’ needs, and choose how you would like alerts delivered. If you previously registered with VESTA Alert, you need to register for the current system, Humboldt ALERT, to continue to receive notifications.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://imperialcotens.onthealert.com/Terms/Index/?ReturnUrl=%2f\">Imperial County:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> Check the box next to “Yes, I agree” to agree to the terms, then click “Continue” to proceed to the registration page. Follow instructions to enroll. As of publication, the Imperial County Public Health Department’s Reverse 911 website has a registration link that does not work. Imperial County Public Information Officer Eddie Lopez provided the alternative registration link and said the county is working on making updates to the outdated county page.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.inyocounty.us/services/emergency-services/emergency-alerts-and-warnings\">Inyo County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> At the bottom of the page, click on the blue link following “Sign up for CodeRED automatic alerts here” to get to a CodeRED registration portal. Creating a managed account allows you to change notification settings in the future and add additional addresses. You can also create a guest account. In addition to emergency notifications, you can choose to receive “General Notifications.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://kerncountyfire.org/education-safety/ready-kern/\">Kern County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll to the bottom of the page, in the blue “Sign Up for Emergency Alerts” section, click the “CLICK HERE TO REGISTER” button to get to the Everbridge registration portal; follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.kingsoes.com/alert\">Kings County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the “SIGN UP HERE” link, located in the red button. This will redirect you to a Smart911 registration portal. Click the green “SIGN UP NOW” button to create a new account. Follow instructions to enroll. As of publication, King County’s Office of Emergency Management website contains a registration link that does not work.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.lakecountyca.gov/869/LakeCoAlerts\">Lake County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the green “Register for LakeCoAlerts” link, then select the “Proceed to Site” button to get to the Everbridge registration portal. Select the “Sign Up” option in the upper right-hand corner to create an account. In your account, you can register up to five addresses and choose how you want notifications delivered to you. The \u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.lakecountyca.gov/869/LakeCoAlerts\">LakeCoAlerts page\u003c/a> lists the numbers used by LakeCoAlerts, which you should save to your Contacts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.lassencounty.org/alerts\">Lassen County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Under “Click Below to register to receive alerts,” click the “BE PREPARED Before an Emergency Strikes” banner to get to a Genasys registration portal; follow instructions to enroll. In your account portal, click the bell icon in the menu on the left to control which types of notifications you receive.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://ready.lacounty.gov/alerts/\">Los Angeles County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the green “REGISTER FOR ALERT LA COUNTY” button to get to a CodeRED registration portal. Creating a managed account allows you to change notification settings in the future and add additional addresses. You can also create a guest account. In addition to emergency notifications, you can choose to receive “General Notifications” and severe weather alerts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.maderacounty.com/government/sheriff/office-of-emergency-services/summer-heat\">Madera County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Follow the blue “www.mcalert.org” link to get to an Everbridge registration portal. Click the “Sign Up” option to create a new account. Follow instructions to enroll. You can choose to receive “Weather Notifications” and “Non-Emergency Notifications” in addition to emergency alerts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://emergency.marincounty.org/pages/alertmarin\">Marin County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the blue “Sign-up for AlertMarin” link to get to an Everbridge registration portal. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.mariposacounty.org/1795/Office-of-Emergency-Services\">Mariposa County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the beige menu (on the left side of the page on desktop and closer to the bottom third of the page on mobile), select “Emergency Alerts Sign-up” to get to an Everbridge registration portal. Click the blue “SIGN UP HERE” link or select the “Sign Up” option in the upper right-hand menu.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.mendocinocounty.gov/government/executive-office/office-of-emergency-services/emergency-notifications-and-alerts\">Mendocino County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the “How to Sign Up” section, follow the green “Visit the Everbridge Registration page to Sign up for the MendoAlert, the Mendocino County Emergency Notification and Alert System” link to get to an Everbridge registration portal. Follow instructions to create an account. In your account, you will be able to register multiple addresses and have the option to add information about your family’s access or functional needs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.countyofmerced.com/1922/Merced-County-Emergency-Notification-Sys\">Merced County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click on the red “Register for the Merced County Emergency Notification System” button to get to an Everbridge registration portal. Click the red “SIGN UP HERE” link to create a new account. Follow instructions to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.modocsheriff.us/office-emergency-services\">Modoc County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the menu (on the left side of the page on desktop and near the bottom of the page on mobile), select “Genasys Emergency Notification” to get to a Genasys login page. Select the green “Click here to register” link located beneath the “Log In” button. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://ready.mono.ca.gov/\">Mono County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click on the white “Sign Up for Emergency Alerts” link to get to a Genasys registration portal. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.readymontereycounty.org/prepare/stay-informed\">Monterey County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the green “Sign Up for Alerts” button to get to a Genasys registration portal. Take note of the phone numbers and emails the emergency alert notifications will be coming from and save them to your Contacts. Scroll to the bottom of the page and select “Click here to register” to create a new account. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://readynapacounty.org/214/ALERT-Napa-County\">Napa County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the blue “Sign Up” button to get to an Everbridge registration portal. Follow instructions to enroll. You can choose to receive notifications from various agencies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/3780/Emergency-Alerts\">Nevada County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> The page lists emergency alert numbers to save to your Contacts. Click the red “Register CodeRed” button on the right-hand side of the page to get to a CodeRED registration portal. Creating a managed account allows you to change notification settings in the future and add additional addresses. You can also create a guest account. In addition to emergency notifications, you can choose to receive “General Notifications” and severe weather alerts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.ocgov.com/about-county/emergency\">Orange County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the “Register Alternate Phone Numbers with AlertOC” section, follow the blue “AlertOC” link to get to an Everbridge registration portal. Select the “Sign Up” option from the menu in the top right-hand corner of the page to create a new account. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.placer.ca.gov/2426/Placer-Alert\">Placer County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> On the “Placer Alert” page, click the “Citizen Alert Notification Sign Up” button or follow the green “Placer Alert system” link. Either of these will redirect you to the Everbridge registration portal. Select the “Sign Up” option from the menu to create a new account. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.plumascounty.us/2163/Genasys-Emergency-Alert-System\">Plumas County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the red “Rapid Emergency Notification System — Register Now” link. Follow this link to the Genasys registration portal, or continue scrolling down for detailed registration steps. On the Genasys registration portal, select the “Click here to register” link below the “LOG IN” button to create a new account. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://rivcoready.org/alert-rivco\">Riverside County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the Alert RivCo registration form. Enter your information here to enroll. After enrolling, log in to your account to register your address with the system. You can choose to receive general notifications in addition to emergency notifications.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://sacramentoready.saccounty.gov/Pages/Emergency-Alerts-Notification-System.aspx\">Sacramento County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click on the blue “Sign up now on the Emergency Alerts website” link to proceed to the Smart911 registration portal. Select the green “SIGN UP NOW” button to enroll. In your account, you can add additional addresses and include medical, access, and functional needs of your family. You may also choose which types of alerts you’d like to receive and customize the delivery method.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.sanbenitocountyca.gov/departments/office-of-emergency-services-oes-and-emergency-medical-services\">San Benito County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the “Register with Genasys to Stay Informed!” section. Click on the orange link next to the SBC alert icon to proceed to the Genasys registration portal. This page lists the emergency alert numbers to save to your Contacts. Select the “Click here to register” link at the bottom of the page beneath the “LOG IN” button to create a new account. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://wp.sbcounty.gov/sheriff/alerts/\">San Bernardino County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the “TENS” section, click the blue “Register today” link to get to a Smart911 login page. Click the green “SIGN UP NOW” button to create a new account. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/\">San Diego County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the orange “AlertSanDiego” box and click the white “Register for emergency alerts” link to get to the Alert San Diego website. Click the green “Register for Emergency Alerts” option in the menu at the top of the page. Enter your information to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.sf.gov/information/be-know-official-emergency-alerts\">San Francisco County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the “Sign up for AlertSF” section, click the blue “alertsf.org” link, which will redirect you to an Everbridge registration portal. Select the “Sign Up” option in the menu in the top right-hand corner. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://sjready.org/stay-informed\">San Joaquin County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the orange “SIGN UP FOR SJREADY” button in the “SJReady — Community Notification System” section to get to theEverbridge registration portal. Click the blue “SIGN UP HERE” link to create an account. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.prepareslo.org/en/reverse-9-1-1.aspx\">San Luis Obispo County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the “Register” button outlined in blue. Click this to proceed to a Smart911 registration portal. Follow instructions to enroll. The county switched to this alert system in October 2023 and recommends you re-register with the new system if you were enrolled with the previous one.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/dem/smc-alert\">San Mateo County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the blue “Register Now” button near the bottom. Click the button to proceed to the Smart911 registration portal. Follow instructions to enroll. You can opt in to receive precautionary warnings in addition to emergency alerts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.readysbc.org/\">Santa Barbara County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the “Sign Up for ReadySBC Alerts” link in the orange box to get to the Everbridge registration portal. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://emergencymanagement.sccgov.org/AlertSCC\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the “Sign Up Today!” section and click on the blue “Sign Up” button to get to the Everbridge registration portal. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.santacruzcountyca.gov/OR3/Response/PlanandPrepare/AlertNotificationApplication.aspx\">Santa Cruz County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the blue “Cruz Aware Registration” link to get to the Genasys login page. Save the emergency alerts phone numbers to your Contacts. Select the “Click here to register” link under the “LOG IN” button to create a new account. Follow instructions to register. After registering, click the bell icon in the menu to customize which types of notifications you’d like to receive. Santa Cruz County is no longer using the CodeRED system; you should register with the new system if you had enrolled previously.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.shastacounty.gov/ready/page/wildfire-overview\">Shasta County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the “Resources” section, follow the blue “Alert Shasta” link to get to the Genasys registration portal. Save the emergency alerts phone numbers to your Contacts. Under the “LOG IN” button, select the “Click here to register” link to create a new account. Follow instructions to register. Shasta County switched to a new emergency alert system on May 1, 2024, and asks that you register with the new system even if you were registered with the previous CodeRED system.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.sierracounty.ca.gov/676/Emergency-Alerts\">Sierra County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Under the “Stay Informed” section, follow the blue “Everbridge Emergency Alert System” link, then click the “Proceed to Site” button to access the Everbridge registration portal. Select the “Sign Up” option in the top right corner to create a new account. Follow instructions to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/publichealth/page/siskiyou-county-emergency-preparedness-guide-stay-informed\">Siskiyou County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the “ReadySiskiyou-Alerts (Smart911)” link to get to the Smart911 registration portal. Click the green “SIGN UP NOW” button. Follow instructions to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/oes/alertsolano/information.asp\">Solano County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Follow the blue “CLICK HERE TO REGISTER” link in the white box to get to the Everbridge registration page. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/administrative-support-and-fiscal-services/emergency-management/resources/soco-alert\">Sonoma County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the blue “Sign up for SoCoAlert Today!” link near the bottom of the page to get to the CodeRED registration portal. Creating a managed account allows you to change notification settings in the future and add additional addresses. You can also create a guest account. In addition to emergency notifications, you can choose to receive “General Notifications” and severe weather alerts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.stanoes.com/stanemergency/register-for-alerts\">Stanislaus County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the blue “Everbridge Member Portal” link. Click this link and wait until it redirects you to the Everbridge registration portal. Follow instructions to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.suttercounty.org/government/county-departments/office-of-emergency-services\">Sutter County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the blue “CODE RED” button at the bottom of the page. Click on this button to proceed to the CodeRED registration portal. Creating a managed account allows you to change notification settings in the future and add additional addresses. You can also create a guest account. In addition to emergency notifications, you can choose to receive “General Notifications.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://tehamaso.org/tehama-alert/\">Tehama County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the yellow “Tehama Alert” box near the bottom of the page, click on the green “Sign up for Tehama Alert” button to get to an Everbridge registration portal. Follow instructions to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.trinitycounty.org/oes/codered\">Trinity County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the blue CodeRED link next to “CodeRED Signup” and select“OK” to proceed to the CodeRED registration portal. Creating a managed account allows you to change notification settings in the future and add additional addresses. You can also create a guest account. In addition to emergency notifications, you can choose to receive “General Notifications” and severe weather alerts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://oes.tularecounty.ca.gov/oes/preparedness/be-informed/stay-informed/\">Tulare County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the “Register with AlertTC” image or click the blue “www.AlertTC.com” link to get to the AlertTC website. Next, click the blue “Register Now or Login Here” link to proceed to the Everbridge registration portal. Select the “Sign Up” option from the menu in the upper right-hand corner to create a new account. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.tuolumnecounty.ca.gov/1170/Emergency-Alerts\">Tuolumne County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down until you see the words “CLICK HERE TO REGISTER” in large, green font. Follow the “HERE” link to proceed to the Everbridge registration portal. Select the “Sign Up” option from the menu in the upper right-hand corner. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.readyventuracounty.org/vc-alert/\">Ventura County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the red “REGISTER HERE” button on the right-hand side of the page to get to an Everbridge registration portal. Select the “Sign Up” option from the menu in the upper right-hand corner of the page. Follow instructions to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.yolocounty.gov/government/general-government-departments/office-of-emergency-services/alerts\">Yolo County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the “Sign up for Alerts” section, click the blue “Alert Yolo” link to get to the Everbridge registration portal. Select the “Sign Up” option from the menu in the upper right-hand corner of the page. Follow instructions to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.yuba.org/departments/emergency_services/BePreparedYuba.php\">Yuba County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the yellow “STAY CONNECTED!” box, click the “Click here to register for CodeRED” button to get to the registration portal. Creating a managed account allows you to change notification settings in the future and add additional addresses. You can also create a guest account. In addition to emergency notifications, you can choose to receive “General Notifications.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One note: Listos California, part of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, provides a \u003ca href=\"https://www.listoscalifornia.org/alerts/\">look-up tool\u003c/a> to find alerts in California. Daniel Gutiérrez, Project Manager at Listos California, said that the office relies on counties to reach out when they change alert systems. This may occasionally lead to the tool providing outdated information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signing up for emergency alerts is a crucial first step in preparing for a natural disaster, but it’s not the last. Alerts delivered via phone or email rely on some combination of phone service, internet, and power, all of which could go down during a natural disaster. Government agencies, however, have also used non-electronic emergency alerts for a long time, including door-to-door knocking or vehicle-mounted speakers. But you may find yourself in a position where you need to evacuate an area before an official order has even been issued. So don’t forget to develop a comprehensive \u003ca href=\"https://www.ready.gov/plan\">disaster plan\u003c/a> and review it with your household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Early warning systems save lives during disasters like wildfires. But a recent FEMA survey found that only a third of people are signed up. Use this resource to find your county’s emergency alert sign-up page.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1725114767,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":80,"wordCount":4520},"headData":{"title":"Will You Get the Emergency Alerts You Need? Here's How to Sign Up in Your County | KQED","description":"Early warning systems save lives during disasters like wildfires. But a recent FEMA survey found that only a third of people are signed up. Use this resource to find your county’s emergency alert sign-up page.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Will You Get the Emergency Alerts You Need? Here's How to Sign Up in Your County","datePublished":"2024-08-31T07:40:59-07:00","dateModified":"2024-08-31T07:32:47-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/natasha-uzcategui-liggett/\">Natasha Uzcátegui-Liggett\u003c/a>, CalMatters","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/12002545/will-you-get-the-emergency-alerts-you-need-heres-how-to-sign-up-in-your-county","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Natural disasters \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/disaster/how-declared\">have affected\u003c/a> nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/advisor/homeowners-insurance/counties-most-at-risk-for-natural-disasters/\">90% of U.S. counties\u003c/a> since 2013, and while many households know about preparing emergency kits, a \u003ca href=\"https://community.fema.gov/PreparednessConnect/s/article/Results-from-the-2023-National-Household-Survey-on-Disaster-Preparedness\">recent FEMA survey\u003c/a> found a large drop in how many people are signed up to receive emergency alerts and warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early warning systems \u003ca href=\"https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/early-warnings-for-all#:~:text=Early%20warning%20systems%20have%20proven,%243%20to%20%2416%20billion%20annually\">save lives during disasters\u003c/a>. To ensure you can receive these warnings via your phone, text, or email, we recommend turning on your phone’s alerts and signing up for your county’s emergency alert system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>QUICK LINKS\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/08/california-emergency-alerts/#on-iphones\">Turn on your iPhone’s Wireless Emergency Alerts\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/08/california-emergency-alerts/#on-androids\">Turn on your Android’s Wireless Emergency Alerts\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/08/california-emergency-alerts/#how-to-sign-up-for-your-countys-alerts\">Sign up for your county’s alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Turn on your phone’s emergency alerts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wireless Emergency Alerts (\u003ca href=\"https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/wireless-emergency-alerts-wea\">WEAs\u003c/a>) are one-way authorities spread information to the community during an emergency. Most mobile phones are \u003ca href=\"https://www.verizon.com/support/wireless-emergency-alerts-compatible-devices/\">WEA-capable devices\u003c/a>, and alerts are typically enabled by default. But if you’ve ever received an alert or test alert, there’s a chance you may have disabled them after hearing their signature alarm: an insistent and loud blare, accompanied by vibrations, that goes off on every phone in your vicinity. You can turn off some of the alerts you don’t want while receiving the ones you do, so it’s worth checking your phone’s settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WEAs use cell towers to send notifications to all WEA-capable mobile phones within a specified target area, meaning you receive alerts for your current location, not your home address. WEAs may also occasionally reach some community members \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/practitioners/integrated-public-alert-warning-system/public/wireless-emergency-alerts/geographic-accuracy-wea\">outside the target area\u003c/a>, depending on the phones’ technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how to make sure your phone can receive WEAs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On iPhones\u003c/h2>\n\u003col class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Navigate to iPhone \u003cstrong>Settings\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Select \u003cstrong>Notifications\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Scroll to the bottom of the \u003cstrong>Notifications\u003c/strong> section to \u003cstrong>GOVERNMENT ALERTS\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Next to \u003cstrong>Public Safety Alerts\u003c/strong>, toggle the button on (it turns green). These alerts \u003ca href=\"https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/wireless-emergency-alerts-wea\">convey\u003c/a> “recommendations for saving lives and property.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Select \u003cstrong>Emergency Alerts\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On the following screen, ensure that \u003cstrong>Emergency Alerts\u003c/strong> are toggled on.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003cstrong>Local Awareness\u003c/strong> option improves the timeliness and accuracy of emergency alerts in the United States, \u003ca href=\"https://support.apple.com/en-us/102516\">according to Apple\u003c/a>. Toggle to enable or disable.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>Here’s \u003ca href=\"https://support.apple.com/en-us/102516\">Apple’s page\u003c/a> on how to turn on emergency alerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On Androids\u003c/h2>\n\u003col class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Navigate to Android \u003cstrong>Settings\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Scroll down and select \u003cstrong>Safety & emergency\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Select \u003cstrong>Wireless emergency alerts \u003c/strong>at the bottom of the screen.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On the following screen, ensure that \u003cstrong>Allow alerts\u003c/strong> is toggled on.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Toggle \u003cstrong>Extreme threats\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Severe threats\u003c/strong> to enable or disable alerts for threats to life and property.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Toggle \u003cstrong>Public safety messages\u003c/strong> to enable or disable alerts with recommended actions to save lives or property.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>You can also visit this \u003ca href=\"https://support.google.com/android/answer/9319337?hl=en#zippy=\">“Android Help”\u003c/a> page and select the blue “Control emergency broadcast notifications” option for instructions on how to manage WEA alert settings on Android.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Local text or email alerts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Authorities may not always use WEAs to circulate information, so it’s also important to enroll in your local government’s emergency alert system. During the deadly 2018 Camp Fire in California, authorities issued evacuation orders through Butte County’s emergency alerts, door-knocking, vehicle-mounted speakers, and social media posts — but did not send any WEAs. At the time, fewer than 40% of residents in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2019/10/paradise-california-camp-fire-anniversary-cleanup/\">Paradise, one of the towns destroyed in the fire\u003c/a>, had signed up for the county’s alerts, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/TechnicalNotes/NIST.TN.2252.pdf\">2023 report (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://riversideca.gov/readyriverside/be-informed/alerts-warnings/alerts-warnings\">Riverside County’s alerts and warnings page\u003c/a>, “Wireless Emergency Alerts are important, but some of the most locally-specific and timely information can come from opt-in mass notification services like RiversideAlert.” Although some of these systems automatically enroll landline numbers, Californians must opt in to receive notifications on their mobile devices or via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no standardized emergency alert system across the United States; the enrollment process and your notification system’s features differ based on where you live. Different governments’ mass notification systems may include different types of alerts. Some only notify you in extreme situations, such as disaster evacuations, while others may also send alerts for missing persons or police activity. Note what kind of alerts your local system offers before signing up, and keep in mind you can often choose what type of alerts you’d like to receive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11999982,news_11971374,news_11834901"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Users will typically be asked to provide their mobile number, email, and street address. Many emergency alert systems have the option to register multiple street addresses, allowing you to keep tabs on other significant locations like your workplace or kids’ schools. Some also allow you to customize whether you’d like to receive alerts via phone call, text message, or email and offer language and accessibility options. If customization options are not offered during initial enrollment, you may be able to log in after enrolling to change your settings and add additional information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency alert systems are often run through third parties. Common ones include OnSolve CodeRED, Everbridge, Rave Mobile Safety’s Smart 911, and Genasys. If your local government uses a third-party system, you will generally be directed to that company’s website to enroll. Once you receive an emergency alert (or a signup confirmation), we recommend that you save the number to your Contacts and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/26/20883331/iphone-do-not-disturb-mode-exceptions-how-to\">exclude it from being blocked\u003c/a> when using your cell phone’s Do Not Disturb features.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you’ve signed up for alerts previously, it’s worth checking to make sure you’re still registered with your county. Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.shastacounty.gov/community/page/alertshasta-shasta-countys-new-public-warning-system\">governments\u003c/a> may have \u003ca href=\"https://humboldtgov.org/2014/Emergency-Notifications\">transitioned\u003c/a> to new systems and might not have migrated residents’ information.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">How to sign up for your county’s alerts\u003c/span>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Follow our instructions below to sign up for the most up-to-date alerts as of August 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">The list only includes information for California counties’ primary emergency alert systems. Some local governments may offer additional alerts through systems like Nixle or Notify Me, but no county in California uses either of these as its primary emergency alert system. If you are only registered with Nixle or Notify Me, you may miss crucial emergency alerts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>Find your county\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.acgov.org/ready/connect.htm\">Alameda County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the black “AC ALERT” box, click on the yellow “Subscribe” button to get to an Everbridge registration portal. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.alpinecountyca.gov/204/Sheriff\">Alpine County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the “SIGN UP FOR REVERSE 911” section, follow the blue Douglas County link, then click “Proceed to Site.” Check the box next to “Yes, I agree” to agree to the terms, then click “Continue” to proceed to the Douglas County, Nev. registration portal. Enter your information to enroll. Alpine County Public Information Officer JT Chevallier confirmed to CalMatters that the county uses the Douglas County system to send emergency alerts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.amadorgov.org/departments/office-of-emergency-services/amador-county-emergency-alerts\">Amador County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click on the blue “Amador County Emergency Alerts” link toward the bottom of the page to get to the Smart911 registration portal. Click on the green “SIGN UP NOW” button to create an account. If you previously registered with the CodeRED system, Amador County encourages you to register with the current system, Amador County Emergency Alerts, to continue receiving emergency notifications.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.buttecounty.net/1757/Be-Prepared\">Butte County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click on the green “Sign up for BCSO CodeRED Notifications” link and select the “Proceed to Site” button to get to the CodeRED registration portal. Creating a managed account allows you to change notification settings in the future and add additional addresses. You can also create a guest account. In addition to emergency notifications, you can choose to receive “General Notifications” and severe weather alerts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://fireprevention.calaverasgov.us/Emergency-Alerts\">Calaveras County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click on the “SIGN UP FOR CALAVERAS ALERT” image to get to the Everbridge registration portal. Click the blue “SIGN UP HERE” link to create a new account. You can choose to receive severe weather alerts and customize the alert delivery method.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://countyofcolusa.org/64/Emergency-Alert\">Colusa County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Under the “Our Emergency Alerts” section, click the green “Sign up for Emergency alerts from RAVE Mobile” link to get to the Rave registration portal. Click on the green “REGISTER” button in the upper right-hand corner. Follow the instructions to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/5435/Public-Safety-Emergency-Info\">Contra Costa County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click on the “Community Warning System” link. In the black box with a yellow alert icon, click “Register to Receive Emergency Alerts” to get to the emergency alert system site. Click “Acknowledge” to proceed, then enter your information to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.co.del-norte.ca.us/CommunityAlertSystem\">Del Norte County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the “SIGN UP NOW!” link in the Del Norte Community Alert System Section to get to the Everbridge registration portal. Create an account, then follow instructions to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.eldoradocounty.ca.gov/Home/Tabs/Emergency-Alert-System\">El Dorado County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the blue “Alert Notification System ‘RAVE’” link to get to the sign-up instructions page. Update your Contacts with the emergency alerts phone number listed under the “Save El Dorado County Emergency Alerts in your Contacts” section. Under “New Users,” select the “CLICK HERE” link to proceed to a Smart911 registration portal. Follow the instructions to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.fresnocountyca.gov/Resources/Fresno-County-Emergency\">Fresno County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the black “Register to receive Emergency Alerts” button, located in a red box. Click the button to proceed to the Everbridge registration portal. Create an account, then follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.countyofglenn.net/government/departments/sheriff/office-emergency-services\">Glenn County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the blue “Sign up for CodeRed Emergency Alerts” link. Click the link, then click “OK” to proceed to the CodeRED registration portal. Creating a managed account that allows you to change notification settings in the future and add additional addresses. You can also create a guest account. In addition to emergency notifications, you can choose to receive “General Notifications” and severe weather alerts. Alerts can be received in English or Spanish.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://humboldtgov.org/2014/Emergency-Notifications\">Humboldt County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to read Humboldt Alert Sign Up Instructions or click on the “SIGN UP FOR NOTIFICATIONS” button to proceed to the Everbridge registration portal. Click on the red “SIGN UP HERE” link to create a new account. You can add up to five addresses, include pertinent information about family members’ needs, and choose how you would like alerts delivered. If you previously registered with VESTA Alert, you need to register for the current system, Humboldt ALERT, to continue to receive notifications.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://imperialcotens.onthealert.com/Terms/Index/?ReturnUrl=%2f\">Imperial County:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> Check the box next to “Yes, I agree” to agree to the terms, then click “Continue” to proceed to the registration page. Follow instructions to enroll. As of publication, the Imperial County Public Health Department’s Reverse 911 website has a registration link that does not work. Imperial County Public Information Officer Eddie Lopez provided the alternative registration link and said the county is working on making updates to the outdated county page.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.inyocounty.us/services/emergency-services/emergency-alerts-and-warnings\">Inyo County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> At the bottom of the page, click on the blue link following “Sign up for CodeRED automatic alerts here” to get to a CodeRED registration portal. Creating a managed account allows you to change notification settings in the future and add additional addresses. You can also create a guest account. In addition to emergency notifications, you can choose to receive “General Notifications.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://kerncountyfire.org/education-safety/ready-kern/\">Kern County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll to the bottom of the page, in the blue “Sign Up for Emergency Alerts” section, click the “CLICK HERE TO REGISTER” button to get to the Everbridge registration portal; follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.kingsoes.com/alert\">Kings County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the “SIGN UP HERE” link, located in the red button. This will redirect you to a Smart911 registration portal. Click the green “SIGN UP NOW” button to create a new account. Follow instructions to enroll. As of publication, King County’s Office of Emergency Management website contains a registration link that does not work.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.lakecountyca.gov/869/LakeCoAlerts\">Lake County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the green “Register for LakeCoAlerts” link, then select the “Proceed to Site” button to get to the Everbridge registration portal. Select the “Sign Up” option in the upper right-hand corner to create an account. In your account, you can register up to five addresses and choose how you want notifications delivered to you. The \u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.lakecountyca.gov/869/LakeCoAlerts\">LakeCoAlerts page\u003c/a> lists the numbers used by LakeCoAlerts, which you should save to your Contacts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.lassencounty.org/alerts\">Lassen County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Under “Click Below to register to receive alerts,” click the “BE PREPARED Before an Emergency Strikes” banner to get to a Genasys registration portal; follow instructions to enroll. In your account portal, click the bell icon in the menu on the left to control which types of notifications you receive.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://ready.lacounty.gov/alerts/\">Los Angeles County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the green “REGISTER FOR ALERT LA COUNTY” button to get to a CodeRED registration portal. Creating a managed account allows you to change notification settings in the future and add additional addresses. You can also create a guest account. In addition to emergency notifications, you can choose to receive “General Notifications” and severe weather alerts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.maderacounty.com/government/sheriff/office-of-emergency-services/summer-heat\">Madera County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Follow the blue “www.mcalert.org” link to get to an Everbridge registration portal. Click the “Sign Up” option to create a new account. Follow instructions to enroll. You can choose to receive “Weather Notifications” and “Non-Emergency Notifications” in addition to emergency alerts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://emergency.marincounty.org/pages/alertmarin\">Marin County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the blue “Sign-up for AlertMarin” link to get to an Everbridge registration portal. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.mariposacounty.org/1795/Office-of-Emergency-Services\">Mariposa County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the beige menu (on the left side of the page on desktop and closer to the bottom third of the page on mobile), select “Emergency Alerts Sign-up” to get to an Everbridge registration portal. Click the blue “SIGN UP HERE” link or select the “Sign Up” option in the upper right-hand menu.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.mendocinocounty.gov/government/executive-office/office-of-emergency-services/emergency-notifications-and-alerts\">Mendocino County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the “How to Sign Up” section, follow the green “Visit the Everbridge Registration page to Sign up for the MendoAlert, the Mendocino County Emergency Notification and Alert System” link to get to an Everbridge registration portal. Follow instructions to create an account. In your account, you will be able to register multiple addresses and have the option to add information about your family’s access or functional needs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.countyofmerced.com/1922/Merced-County-Emergency-Notification-Sys\">Merced County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click on the red “Register for the Merced County Emergency Notification System” button to get to an Everbridge registration portal. Click the red “SIGN UP HERE” link to create a new account. Follow instructions to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.modocsheriff.us/office-emergency-services\">Modoc County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the menu (on the left side of the page on desktop and near the bottom of the page on mobile), select “Genasys Emergency Notification” to get to a Genasys login page. Select the green “Click here to register” link located beneath the “Log In” button. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://ready.mono.ca.gov/\">Mono County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click on the white “Sign Up for Emergency Alerts” link to get to a Genasys registration portal. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.readymontereycounty.org/prepare/stay-informed\">Monterey County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the green “Sign Up for Alerts” button to get to a Genasys registration portal. Take note of the phone numbers and emails the emergency alert notifications will be coming from and save them to your Contacts. Scroll to the bottom of the page and select “Click here to register” to create a new account. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://readynapacounty.org/214/ALERT-Napa-County\">Napa County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the blue “Sign Up” button to get to an Everbridge registration portal. Follow instructions to enroll. You can choose to receive notifications from various agencies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/3780/Emergency-Alerts\">Nevada County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> The page lists emergency alert numbers to save to your Contacts. Click the red “Register CodeRed” button on the right-hand side of the page to get to a CodeRED registration portal. Creating a managed account allows you to change notification settings in the future and add additional addresses. You can also create a guest account. In addition to emergency notifications, you can choose to receive “General Notifications” and severe weather alerts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.ocgov.com/about-county/emergency\">Orange County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the “Register Alternate Phone Numbers with AlertOC” section, follow the blue “AlertOC” link to get to an Everbridge registration portal. Select the “Sign Up” option from the menu in the top right-hand corner of the page to create a new account. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.placer.ca.gov/2426/Placer-Alert\">Placer County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> On the “Placer Alert” page, click the “Citizen Alert Notification Sign Up” button or follow the green “Placer Alert system” link. Either of these will redirect you to the Everbridge registration portal. Select the “Sign Up” option from the menu to create a new account. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.plumascounty.us/2163/Genasys-Emergency-Alert-System\">Plumas County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the red “Rapid Emergency Notification System — Register Now” link. Follow this link to the Genasys registration portal, or continue scrolling down for detailed registration steps. On the Genasys registration portal, select the “Click here to register” link below the “LOG IN” button to create a new account. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://rivcoready.org/alert-rivco\">Riverside County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the Alert RivCo registration form. Enter your information here to enroll. After enrolling, log in to your account to register your address with the system. You can choose to receive general notifications in addition to emergency notifications.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://sacramentoready.saccounty.gov/Pages/Emergency-Alerts-Notification-System.aspx\">Sacramento County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click on the blue “Sign up now on the Emergency Alerts website” link to proceed to the Smart911 registration portal. Select the green “SIGN UP NOW” button to enroll. In your account, you can add additional addresses and include medical, access, and functional needs of your family. You may also choose which types of alerts you’d like to receive and customize the delivery method.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.sanbenitocountyca.gov/departments/office-of-emergency-services-oes-and-emergency-medical-services\">San Benito County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the “Register with Genasys to Stay Informed!” section. Click on the orange link next to the SBC alert icon to proceed to the Genasys registration portal. This page lists the emergency alert numbers to save to your Contacts. Select the “Click here to register” link at the bottom of the page beneath the “LOG IN” button to create a new account. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://wp.sbcounty.gov/sheriff/alerts/\">San Bernardino County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the “TENS” section, click the blue “Register today” link to get to a Smart911 login page. Click the green “SIGN UP NOW” button to create a new account. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/\">San Diego County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the orange “AlertSanDiego” box and click the white “Register for emergency alerts” link to get to the Alert San Diego website. Click the green “Register for Emergency Alerts” option in the menu at the top of the page. Enter your information to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.sf.gov/information/be-know-official-emergency-alerts\">San Francisco County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the “Sign up for AlertSF” section, click the blue “alertsf.org” link, which will redirect you to an Everbridge registration portal. Select the “Sign Up” option in the menu in the top right-hand corner. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://sjready.org/stay-informed\">San Joaquin County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the orange “SIGN UP FOR SJREADY” button in the “SJReady — Community Notification System” section to get to theEverbridge registration portal. Click the blue “SIGN UP HERE” link to create an account. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.prepareslo.org/en/reverse-9-1-1.aspx\">San Luis Obispo County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the “Register” button outlined in blue. Click this to proceed to a Smart911 registration portal. Follow instructions to enroll. The county switched to this alert system in October 2023 and recommends you re-register with the new system if you were enrolled with the previous one.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/dem/smc-alert\">San Mateo County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the blue “Register Now” button near the bottom. Click the button to proceed to the Smart911 registration portal. Follow instructions to enroll. You can opt in to receive precautionary warnings in addition to emergency alerts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.readysbc.org/\">Santa Barbara County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the “Sign Up for ReadySBC Alerts” link in the orange box to get to the Everbridge registration portal. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://emergencymanagement.sccgov.org/AlertSCC\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the “Sign Up Today!” section and click on the blue “Sign Up” button to get to the Everbridge registration portal. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.santacruzcountyca.gov/OR3/Response/PlanandPrepare/AlertNotificationApplication.aspx\">Santa Cruz County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the blue “Cruz Aware Registration” link to get to the Genasys login page. Save the emergency alerts phone numbers to your Contacts. Select the “Click here to register” link under the “LOG IN” button to create a new account. Follow instructions to register. After registering, click the bell icon in the menu to customize which types of notifications you’d like to receive. Santa Cruz County is no longer using the CodeRED system; you should register with the new system if you had enrolled previously.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.shastacounty.gov/ready/page/wildfire-overview\">Shasta County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the “Resources” section, follow the blue “Alert Shasta” link to get to the Genasys registration portal. Save the emergency alerts phone numbers to your Contacts. Under the “LOG IN” button, select the “Click here to register” link to create a new account. Follow instructions to register. Shasta County switched to a new emergency alert system on May 1, 2024, and asks that you register with the new system even if you were registered with the previous CodeRED system.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.sierracounty.ca.gov/676/Emergency-Alerts\">Sierra County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Under the “Stay Informed” section, follow the blue “Everbridge Emergency Alert System” link, then click the “Proceed to Site” button to access the Everbridge registration portal. Select the “Sign Up” option in the top right corner to create a new account. Follow instructions to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/publichealth/page/siskiyou-county-emergency-preparedness-guide-stay-informed\">Siskiyou County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the “ReadySiskiyou-Alerts (Smart911)” link to get to the Smart911 registration portal. Click the green “SIGN UP NOW” button. Follow instructions to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/oes/alertsolano/information.asp\">Solano County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Follow the blue “CLICK HERE TO REGISTER” link in the white box to get to the Everbridge registration page. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/administrative-support-and-fiscal-services/emergency-management/resources/soco-alert\">Sonoma County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the blue “Sign up for SoCoAlert Today!” link near the bottom of the page to get to the CodeRED registration portal. Creating a managed account allows you to change notification settings in the future and add additional addresses. You can also create a guest account. In addition to emergency notifications, you can choose to receive “General Notifications” and severe weather alerts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.stanoes.com/stanemergency/register-for-alerts\">Stanislaus County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the blue “Everbridge Member Portal” link. Click this link and wait until it redirects you to the Everbridge registration portal. Follow instructions to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.suttercounty.org/government/county-departments/office-of-emergency-services\">Sutter County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down to the blue “CODE RED” button at the bottom of the page. Click on this button to proceed to the CodeRED registration portal. Creating a managed account allows you to change notification settings in the future and add additional addresses. You can also create a guest account. In addition to emergency notifications, you can choose to receive “General Notifications.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://tehamaso.org/tehama-alert/\">Tehama County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the yellow “Tehama Alert” box near the bottom of the page, click on the green “Sign up for Tehama Alert” button to get to an Everbridge registration portal. Follow instructions to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.trinitycounty.org/oes/codered\">Trinity County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the blue CodeRED link next to “CodeRED Signup” and select“OK” to proceed to the CodeRED registration portal. Creating a managed account allows you to change notification settings in the future and add additional addresses. You can also create a guest account. In addition to emergency notifications, you can choose to receive “General Notifications” and severe weather alerts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://oes.tularecounty.ca.gov/oes/preparedness/be-informed/stay-informed/\">Tulare County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the “Register with AlertTC” image or click the blue “www.AlertTC.com” link to get to the AlertTC website. Next, click the blue “Register Now or Login Here” link to proceed to the Everbridge registration portal. Select the “Sign Up” option from the menu in the upper right-hand corner to create a new account. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.tuolumnecounty.ca.gov/1170/Emergency-Alerts\">Tuolumne County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Scroll down until you see the words “CLICK HERE TO REGISTER” in large, green font. Follow the “HERE” link to proceed to the Everbridge registration portal. Select the “Sign Up” option from the menu in the upper right-hand corner. Follow instructions to enroll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.readyventuracounty.org/vc-alert/\">Ventura County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Click the red “REGISTER HERE” button on the right-hand side of the page to get to an Everbridge registration portal. Select the “Sign Up” option from the menu in the upper right-hand corner of the page. Follow instructions to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.yolocounty.gov/government/general-government-departments/office-of-emergency-services/alerts\">Yolo County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the “Sign up for Alerts” section, click the blue “Alert Yolo” link to get to the Everbridge registration portal. Select the “Sign Up” option from the menu in the upper right-hand corner of the page. Follow instructions to register.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https://www.yuba.org/departments/emergency_services/BePreparedYuba.php\">Yuba County\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> In the yellow “STAY CONNECTED!” box, click the “Click here to register for CodeRED” button to get to the registration portal. Creating a managed account allows you to change notification settings in the future and add additional addresses. You can also create a guest account. In addition to emergency notifications, you can choose to receive “General Notifications.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One note: Listos California, part of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, provides a \u003ca href=\"https://www.listoscalifornia.org/alerts/\">look-up tool\u003c/a> to find alerts in California. Daniel Gutiérrez, Project Manager at Listos California, said that the office relies on counties to reach out when they change alert systems. This may occasionally lead to the tool providing outdated information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signing up for emergency alerts is a crucial first step in preparing for a natural disaster, but it’s not the last. Alerts delivered via phone or email rely on some combination of phone service, internet, and power, all of which could go down during a natural disaster. Government agencies, however, have also used non-electronic emergency alerts for a long time, including door-to-door knocking or vehicle-mounted speakers. But you may find yourself in a position where you need to evacuate an area before an official order has even been issued. So don’t forget to develop a comprehensive \u003ca href=\"https://www.ready.gov/plan\">disaster plan\u003c/a> and review it with your household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/12002545/will-you-get-the-emergency-alerts-you-need-heres-how-to-sign-up-in-your-county","authors":["byline_news_12002545"],"categories":["news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_2958","news_24504","news_4950"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_12002546","label":"news_18481"},"news_12000319":{"type":"posts","id":"news_12000319","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"12000319","score":null,"sort":[1723748354000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"mpox-is-declared-a-global-emergency-again-heres-what-to-know","title":"Mpox is Declared a Global Emergency Again. Here's What to Know","publishDate":1723748354,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Mpox is Declared a Global Emergency Again. Here’s What to Know | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 10:15 a.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988079/2024-mpox-vaccine-formerly-monkeypox-symptoms-rash\">mpox\u003c/a> outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/what-is-mpox-monkey-pox-congo-emergency-415d11f9e62d104b4c40dd8fe8e80b47\">a global emergency\u003c/a> last week on August 14, with cases confirmed among children and adults in more than a dozen countries and resulting in more than 500 deaths in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier that week, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that the outbreaks of mpox — \u003ca href=\"https://www.ems1.com/infectious-diseases/articles/monkeypox-gets-new-name-after-racist-and-stigmatizing-language-health-officials-say-i1djjhzOPR7VCJrC/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWhen%20the%20outbreak%20of%20monkeypox,monkeypox%20worldwide%20as%20of%20Nov.\">formerly known as monkeypox\u003c/a> — were a public health emergency, calling for international help to stop the virus’ spread. The Africa CDC said mpox has been detected in 13 countries this year, and more than 96% of all cases and deaths are in Congo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#mpox-wastewater\">Why the mpox detected in Bay Area wastewater is a less dangerous strain\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Mpox mostly spreads via close contact with infected people, including through sex. There is a \u003ca href=\"#mpox-vaccine-near-me\">vaccine \u003c/a>for the disease, but few doses are available on the African continent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is something that should concern us all … The potential for further spread within Africa and beyond is very worrying,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC recommends that any person who has traveled to Congo or any bordering countries in the last 21 days and who develops a new, unexplained skin rash should seek medical evaluation and avoid physical contact with others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/thailand-confirms-its-mpox-case-is-clade-1b-strain-first-country-2024-08-22/\">Thailand’s Department of Disease Control confirmed\u003c/a> that an mpox case detected in that country was the more infectious form of the virus first seen in Congo. This case in Thailand is now the second such confirmed detection outside of the African continent, after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mpox-sweden-congo-9923d0ee8deb362b2af5416bb273d629\">Swedish health officials announced Aug. 15 that they’d identified a case of a person with this more dangerous form of mpox.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\">The Bay Area experienced its own mpox outbreak in 2022\u003c/a>, but the strain of the virus now spreading from Congo is different in several ways. Keep reading for what you need to know about mpox in 2024, including the \u003ca href=\"#mpox-symptoms\">the symptoms of mpox\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#mpox-vaccine-near-me\">where to find an mpox vaccine in the Bay Area\u003c/a> and understanding this global emergency declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"mpox-wastewater\">\u003c/a>Understanding the two different strains of mpox\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2022, WHO declared mpox to be a global emergency after it spread to more than 70 countries that had not previously reported mpox, mostly affecting gay and bisexual men. In that outbreak, fewer than 1% of people died. Before this outbreak, the disease had mostly been seen in sporadic outbreaks in central and West Africa when people came into close contact with infected wild animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#mpox-vaccine-near-me\">Where to find an mpox vaccine in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\">The 2022 mpox global outbreak in the United States \u003c/a>— which particularly affected gay and bisexual men as well as trans and nonbinary people who have sex with men — was caused by a version of the mpox virus known as “clade II.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mpox outbreak spreading from Congo is caused by another type of the virus, called “clade I,” which causes more severe illness and higher fatality rates than the clade II type that’s been circulating in the U.S. — albeit at low levels — since the 2022 outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from Stanford University’s WastewaterSCAN project, which monitors the presence of viruses including mpox in human sewage across the U.S., shows that two years after the initial 2022 outbreak, this clade II strain of mpox is still occasionally detected in the Bay Area’s wastewater. Most recently, \u003ca href=\"https://data.wastewaterscan.org/tracker/?charts=CjEQASABSABSBmU5ZTg3ZVIGMzc0MzBhWgpNUFhWX0cyUl9HeIkBigEGNDViZDBlwAEB&selectedChartId=45bd0e\">clade II mpox has been detected as recently as Aug. 18 at San Francisco’s two wastewater plants\u003c/a>, but WastewaterSCAN’s Ali Boehm confirmed that these detections were “low level” and not related to the the clade I outbreak spreading in Congo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#mpox-symptoms\">What are the symptoms of mpox?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>So far, in 2024,\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mpox-africa-outbreak-vaccines-health-congo-3f79d757e7666600c06cbdad39613bc8\"> there have been almost 19,000 cases of clade I from the Congo outbreak, and over 500 people have died.\u003c/a> Cases are up 160% and deaths are up 19% compared with the same period last year. Salim Abdool Karim, a South African infectious diseases expert who chairs the Africa CDC emergency group, said the new version of mpox spreading from Congo appears to have a death rate of about 3%-4%.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where has clade I mpox spread globally?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So far there have been only two clade I cases detected outside of the African continent, and none of them are in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/thailand-confirms-its-mpox-case-is-clade-1b-strain-first-country-2024-08-22/\">Thailand’s Department of Disease Control confirmed\u003c/a> that an mpox case detected in that country was the more infectious form of the virus first seen in Congo. Thai health officials said that the patient was a European man who had arrived in Thailand last week from an unnamed African country where the disease was spreading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 15, the Swedish public health agency said that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mpox-sweden-congo-9923d0ee8deb362b2af5416bb273d629\">the clade I case identified in that country\u003c/a> was a patient who recently sought health care in Stockholm after traveling to “the part of Africa where there is a major outbreak,” according to the agency. Officials said the risk to the general public was considered “very low” and that they expected sporadic imported cases to continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Individual cases of \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippines-says-recent-mpox-case-is-mild-clade-2-variant-2024-08-21/\">mpox reported in the Philippines\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/one-case-mpox-detected-pakistan-2024-08-19/\">Pakistan\u003c/a> were confirmed this week to in fact be the less dangerous clade II mpox.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Understanding mpox in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to data from multiple local health departments, the overwhelming majority of mpox cases in the Bay Area during the 2022 outbreak were reported among gay men and other men who have sex with men. At the peak of the 2022 outbreak, San Francisco health officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/resource/2022/mpox-data-and-reports\">saw dozens of new mpox cases each week in July of that year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\">declared a public health emergency\u003c/a> — the first city in the country to do so. The White House soon followed suit and declared mpox a public health emergency in August, when more than 6,000 cases had been confirmed in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, organizers from the LGBTQ+ community \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\">quickly mobilized to pressure public health officials\u003c/a> at every level of government to make vaccines and treatment widely available to this vulnerable population. The San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) helped spearhead these efforts and has continued to provide free mpox vaccines. \u003cstrong>(Jump straight to\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#mpox-vaccine-near-me\">where to find an mpox vaccine in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are aware of the mpox health emergency in Africa, and although mpox rates in the Bay Area are currently at low levels, we know that infection rates can change or increase — sometimes rapidly,” said Jorge Roman, senior director of clinical services at SFAF in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after the WHO declared the global emergency on Wednesday, San Francisco public health officials confirmed that the risk of this new strain remains relatively low in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) said that “the overall risk to the general population in the United States is considered to be very low.” The agency said it will continue “to closely monitor the situation alongside our federal and state partners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/resource/2022/mpox-data-and-reports\">Cases of clade II mpox “remain low” in San Francisco\u003c/a>, SFDPH said, “and we will continue to update the community if further actions are needed to protect health.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/resource/2022/mpox-data-and-reports\">The current rolling 7-day average of new mpox cases per day in San Francisco is zero.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A failure of the global community’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Officials at the Africa CDC said nearly 70% of cases in Congo are in children younger than 15, who also accounted for 85% of deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacques Alonda, an epidemiologist working in Congo with international charities, said he and other experts were particularly worried about the spread of mpox in camps for refugees in the country’s conflict-ridden east.[aside postID='news_11988079,news_11973108' label='Related Stories]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The worst case I’ve seen is that of a 6-week-old baby who was just two weeks old when he contracted mpox,” Alonda said, adding the baby has been in their care for a month. “He got infected because hospital overcrowding meant he and his mother were forced to share a room with someone else who had the virus, which was undiagnosed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, scientists also reported the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mpox-congo-outbreak-who-fda17cea128f46e48110ad7adcd9e5de\">emergence of a new form\u003c/a> of the deadlier clade I form of mpox, which can kill up to 10% of people in a Congolese mining town that they feared might spread more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in previous mpox outbreaks, where lesions were mostly seen on the chest, hands and feet, the new form causes milder symptoms and lesions on the genitals. That makes it harder to spot, meaning people might also sicken others without knowing they’re infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Marks, a professor of medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said declaring these latest mpox outbreaks in Africa an emergency is warranted if that might lead to more support to contain them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a failure of the global community that things had to get this bad to release the resources needed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.N. health agency said mpox was recently identified for the first time in four East African countries: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. All of those outbreaks are linked to the one in Congo. In Ivory Coast and South Africa, health authorities have reported outbreaks of the less dangerous clade II version of mpox that spread worldwide in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"mpox-symptoms\">\u003c/a>What to know about mpox symptoms and how the virus spreads\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The mpox virus spreads through close contact with someone who is infected. This could be direct contact with the infectious rashes or scabs someone with mpox develops, scabs, having intimate physical contact with someone who has mpox, such as kissing, cuddling or sex. Coming into contact with infected bodily fluids or items that have been touched by rashes or fluids from an infected person can also expose you to the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mpox symptoms often start as flu-like conditions, SFPDH said — which is worth bearing in mind during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987343/covid-bay-area-wastewater-variant-symptoms-isolation-guidance\">this current COVID-19 surge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mpox virus also appears as a rash or sores or spots that can resemble pimples or blisters on the skin anywhere on the body, including the face, inside the mouth, hands, feet, chest, genitals and anus. These spots often start as red, flat spots that then become bumps before the bumps become filled with pus and turn into scabs when they break. These symptoms can be extremely painful. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/symptoms/index.html\">If you’re unsure about recognizing an mpox rash, the CDC has a photo guide.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/symptoms/index.html\">Mpox can have a long incubation period\u003c/a> — that is, the time between when you’re exposed to mpox and when you start to develop symptoms — that can range from three to 17 days, according to the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you suspect you might have mpox symptoms — even if they’re subtle — see your health care provider right away or \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-mpox-vaccines-testing-and-medicine\">consult one of SFPDH’s clinics for mpox testing\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/mpox\">See more on what to do if you suspect you have mpox.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"mpox-vaccine-near-me\">\u003c/a>Where you can find an mpox vaccine in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The two-dose mpox vaccine is available to anybody in the Bay Area, with no eligibility requirements to meet. (In the early days of the 2022 outbreak, public health officials were originally only offering vaccines to people who’d been exposed to mpox or were categorized as being in a specific group more at risk from mpox, but rest assured that those criteria are no longer in effect.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement that people who have received both doses of the mpox vaccine — along with people who have already had clade II mpox — “are \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/08/14/united-states-governments-response-clade-i-mpox-outbreak-democratic-republic-congo-other-countries-region.html\">expected to be protected against severe illness from clade I mpox\u003c/a>” as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recommend that all people who may be at risk of mpox receive both doses of the Jynneos mpox vaccine,” Roman of the San Francisco Aids Foundation said. “Vaccines are plentiful and easily available at this point in time, from San Francisco AIDS Foundation and other City and community partners.” Mpox vaccination is not recommended at this time for those who have previously been infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who is recommended to get the mpox vaccine?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFDPH said that previous mpox outbreaks have predominantly affected communities of gay and bisexual men and men who have sex with men (MSM), as well as trans and nonbinary people who have sex with men. City health officials also especially recommend the mpox vaccine for all people living with HIV and anyone taking or eligible to take HIV PrEP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials also recommend that sex workers, people who’ve been diagnosed with a bacterial sexually transmitted disease (like chlamydia, gonorrhea or syphilis) in the last three months and folks with certain job-related risks of mpox seek the free vaccine. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-mpox-vaccines-testing-and-medicine\">See SFDPH’s full list of people who may be at higher risk of getting mpox.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mpox vaccine was also originally only available for people aged 18 and older, but in 2022 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency-use authorization that allows providers to also give the vaccine to young people aged under 18 who are “determined to be at high risk” of infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vaccine currently available in the U.S. (brand name: Jynneos) is a two-dose series, with roughly a month between doses. Maximal immunity will build two weeks after your second dose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>If you’ve already had both doses of the mpox vaccine, even back in 2022:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re all up to date — and you don’t need to get another mpox vaccine in 2024. There’s no recommendation at this time to get an mpox booster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>If you \u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ci>haven’t \u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb>already had the mpox vaccine:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Go ahead and get your first dose as soon as possible, then get your second dose around 28 days later. But if you forget or get overwhelmed by events, don’t stress too much about timing: Just go get your mpox vaccine when you can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you already have your first dose but forgot to get your second, go get that last dose as soon as possible — even if you got Dose 1 back in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Locations offering the mpox vaccine in the Bay Area\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Your mpox vaccine will be 100% free, and you don’t need health insurance to receive one. As with the COVID-19 vaccine, receiving an mpox vaccine won’t make you \u003ca href=\"https://documentedny.com/2021/04/04/public-charge-rule-explained/\">a public charge\u003c/a> or affect any future immigration processes you may enter into, and you won’t be asked about your immigration status to receive the mpox vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a regular health care provider, SFDPH recommends you ask them first about getting the mpox vaccine. Your vaccine will be free, but you may be charged a regular copay for seeing your provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t have a regular health care provider or insurance, you can find the mpox vaccine free at clinics around the Bay Area. You can opt to schedule an appointment or choose a walk-in clinic, depending on what works best for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>If you live in or near San Francisco:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/mpox-vaccine\">a full list of mpox vaccine sites near you in San Francisco\u003c/a>. SFDPH confirms that you don’t have to be a city resident to get vaccinated for mpox in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mpox vaccination sites elsewhere in the Bay Area and California:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find an mpox vaccine clinic near you using \u003ca href=\"https://npin.cdc.gov/DynWidgets/index.html?chost=www.cdc.gov&cpath=/lgbthealth/summer/index.html&csearch=&chash=&ctitle=Get%20Healthy%20and%20Ready%20for%20Summer%20%7C%20LGBT%20Health%20%7C%20CDC&wn=DynWidgets&wf=/DynWidgets/&wid=DynWidgets1&mMode=widget&mPage=&mChannel=&componentName=MpoxLocator#/\">the CDC’s Vaccine Locator\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find an mpox vaccine clinic near you using \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">the state’s myturn.ca.gov site\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>SFAF will also administer free first and second doses of the vaccine at the upcoming Castro Street Fair on Oct. 6, with no appointment needed. You can find the SFAF booth at 470 Castro St., San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can I get my mpox vaccine at a pharmacy?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some pharmacies offer mpox vaccination appointments online, along with other vaccines like COVID and flu. But if you choose this route, you’ll be asked for insurance details — and it’s important to verify with your insurer first that they’ll cover you receiving the mpox vaccine at a pharmacy like CVS or Walgreens, as the out-of-pocket costs you’ll be quoted may be steep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you get your health care through a health system like Kaiser Permanente, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to get your mpox vaccine covered by insurance at a pharmacy — the way you can’t get your COVID or flu shot covered by Kaiser at a pharmacy either — and may have to seek it directly from a Kaiser provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re able to make an appointment online at a pharmacy for your mpox vaccine, you should consider calling that location ahead of time to verify that they do indeed have supply in stock. A CVS spokesperson told KQED by email that in San Francisco, CVS pharmacies have “limited supply of the monkeypox vaccine in our pharmacies, but a pharmacist can order the vaccine if requested by a patient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writers Gerald Imray in Cape Town, South Africa, Christina Malkia in Kinshasa, Congo and Mark Banchereau in Dakar, Senegal contributed to this report, as well as KQED’s Nisa Khan.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Following the 2022 outbreak that hit the Bay Area, mpox (formerly monkeypox) has been declared a global emergency once more as thousands of cases spread from an outbreak in Congo.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1726011734,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":65,"wordCount":2997},"headData":{"title":"Mpox is Declared a Global Emergency Again. Here's What to Know | KQED","description":"Following the 2022 outbreak that hit the Bay Area, mpox (formerly monkeypox) has been declared a global emergency once more as thousands of cases spread from an outbreak in Congo.\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Mpox is Declared a Global Emergency Again. Here's What to Know","datePublished":"2024-08-15T11:59:14-07:00","dateModified":"2024-09-10T16:42:14-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/mylcheng?lang=en\">Maria Cheng (AP)\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">Carly Severn\u003c/a>","nprStoryId":"kqed-12000319","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/12000319/mpox-is-declared-a-global-emergency-again-heres-what-to-know","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 10:15 a.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988079/2024-mpox-vaccine-formerly-monkeypox-symptoms-rash\">mpox\u003c/a> outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/what-is-mpox-monkey-pox-congo-emergency-415d11f9e62d104b4c40dd8fe8e80b47\">a global emergency\u003c/a> last week on August 14, with cases confirmed among children and adults in more than a dozen countries and resulting in more than 500 deaths in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier that week, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that the outbreaks of mpox — \u003ca href=\"https://www.ems1.com/infectious-diseases/articles/monkeypox-gets-new-name-after-racist-and-stigmatizing-language-health-officials-say-i1djjhzOPR7VCJrC/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWhen%20the%20outbreak%20of%20monkeypox,monkeypox%20worldwide%20as%20of%20Nov.\">formerly known as monkeypox\u003c/a> — were a public health emergency, calling for international help to stop the virus’ spread. The Africa CDC said mpox has been detected in 13 countries this year, and more than 96% of all cases and deaths are in Congo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#mpox-wastewater\">Why the mpox detected in Bay Area wastewater is a less dangerous strain\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Mpox mostly spreads via close contact with infected people, including through sex. There is a \u003ca href=\"#mpox-vaccine-near-me\">vaccine \u003c/a>for the disease, but few doses are available on the African continent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is something that should concern us all … The potential for further spread within Africa and beyond is very worrying,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC recommends that any person who has traveled to Congo or any bordering countries in the last 21 days and who develops a new, unexplained skin rash should seek medical evaluation and avoid physical contact with others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/thailand-confirms-its-mpox-case-is-clade-1b-strain-first-country-2024-08-22/\">Thailand’s Department of Disease Control confirmed\u003c/a> that an mpox case detected in that country was the more infectious form of the virus first seen in Congo. This case in Thailand is now the second such confirmed detection outside of the African continent, after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mpox-sweden-congo-9923d0ee8deb362b2af5416bb273d629\">Swedish health officials announced Aug. 15 that they’d identified a case of a person with this more dangerous form of mpox.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\">The Bay Area experienced its own mpox outbreak in 2022\u003c/a>, but the strain of the virus now spreading from Congo is different in several ways. Keep reading for what you need to know about mpox in 2024, including the \u003ca href=\"#mpox-symptoms\">the symptoms of mpox\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#mpox-vaccine-near-me\">where to find an mpox vaccine in the Bay Area\u003c/a> and understanding this global emergency declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"mpox-wastewater\">\u003c/a>Understanding the two different strains of mpox\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2022, WHO declared mpox to be a global emergency after it spread to more than 70 countries that had not previously reported mpox, mostly affecting gay and bisexual men. In that outbreak, fewer than 1% of people died. Before this outbreak, the disease had mostly been seen in sporadic outbreaks in central and West Africa when people came into close contact with infected wild animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#mpox-vaccine-near-me\">Where to find an mpox vaccine in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\">The 2022 mpox global outbreak in the United States \u003c/a>— which particularly affected gay and bisexual men as well as trans and nonbinary people who have sex with men — was caused by a version of the mpox virus known as “clade II.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mpox outbreak spreading from Congo is caused by another type of the virus, called “clade I,” which causes more severe illness and higher fatality rates than the clade II type that’s been circulating in the U.S. — albeit at low levels — since the 2022 outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from Stanford University’s WastewaterSCAN project, which monitors the presence of viruses including mpox in human sewage across the U.S., shows that two years after the initial 2022 outbreak, this clade II strain of mpox is still occasionally detected in the Bay Area’s wastewater. Most recently, \u003ca href=\"https://data.wastewaterscan.org/tracker/?charts=CjEQASABSABSBmU5ZTg3ZVIGMzc0MzBhWgpNUFhWX0cyUl9HeIkBigEGNDViZDBlwAEB&selectedChartId=45bd0e\">clade II mpox has been detected as recently as Aug. 18 at San Francisco’s two wastewater plants\u003c/a>, but WastewaterSCAN’s Ali Boehm confirmed that these detections were “low level” and not related to the the clade I outbreak spreading in Congo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#mpox-symptoms\">What are the symptoms of mpox?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>So far, in 2024,\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mpox-africa-outbreak-vaccines-health-congo-3f79d757e7666600c06cbdad39613bc8\"> there have been almost 19,000 cases of clade I from the Congo outbreak, and over 500 people have died.\u003c/a> Cases are up 160% and deaths are up 19% compared with the same period last year. Salim Abdool Karim, a South African infectious diseases expert who chairs the Africa CDC emergency group, said the new version of mpox spreading from Congo appears to have a death rate of about 3%-4%.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where has clade I mpox spread globally?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So far there have been only two clade I cases detected outside of the African continent, and none of them are in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/thailand-confirms-its-mpox-case-is-clade-1b-strain-first-country-2024-08-22/\">Thailand’s Department of Disease Control confirmed\u003c/a> that an mpox case detected in that country was the more infectious form of the virus first seen in Congo. Thai health officials said that the patient was a European man who had arrived in Thailand last week from an unnamed African country where the disease was spreading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 15, the Swedish public health agency said that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mpox-sweden-congo-9923d0ee8deb362b2af5416bb273d629\">the clade I case identified in that country\u003c/a> was a patient who recently sought health care in Stockholm after traveling to “the part of Africa where there is a major outbreak,” according to the agency. Officials said the risk to the general public was considered “very low” and that they expected sporadic imported cases to continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Individual cases of \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippines-says-recent-mpox-case-is-mild-clade-2-variant-2024-08-21/\">mpox reported in the Philippines\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/one-case-mpox-detected-pakistan-2024-08-19/\">Pakistan\u003c/a> were confirmed this week to in fact be the less dangerous clade II mpox.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Understanding mpox in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to data from multiple local health departments, the overwhelming majority of mpox cases in the Bay Area during the 2022 outbreak were reported among gay men and other men who have sex with men. At the peak of the 2022 outbreak, San Francisco health officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/resource/2022/mpox-data-and-reports\">saw dozens of new mpox cases each week in July of that year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\">declared a public health emergency\u003c/a> — the first city in the country to do so. The White House soon followed suit and declared mpox a public health emergency in August, when more than 6,000 cases had been confirmed in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, organizers from the LGBTQ+ community \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\">quickly mobilized to pressure public health officials\u003c/a> at every level of government to make vaccines and treatment widely available to this vulnerable population. The San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) helped spearhead these efforts and has continued to provide free mpox vaccines. \u003cstrong>(Jump straight to\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#mpox-vaccine-near-me\">where to find an mpox vaccine in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are aware of the mpox health emergency in Africa, and although mpox rates in the Bay Area are currently at low levels, we know that infection rates can change or increase — sometimes rapidly,” said Jorge Roman, senior director of clinical services at SFAF in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after the WHO declared the global emergency on Wednesday, San Francisco public health officials confirmed that the risk of this new strain remains relatively low in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) said that “the overall risk to the general population in the United States is considered to be very low.” The agency said it will continue “to closely monitor the situation alongside our federal and state partners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/resource/2022/mpox-data-and-reports\">Cases of clade II mpox “remain low” in San Francisco\u003c/a>, SFDPH said, “and we will continue to update the community if further actions are needed to protect health.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/resource/2022/mpox-data-and-reports\">The current rolling 7-day average of new mpox cases per day in San Francisco is zero.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A failure of the global community’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Officials at the Africa CDC said nearly 70% of cases in Congo are in children younger than 15, who also accounted for 85% of deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacques Alonda, an epidemiologist working in Congo with international charities, said he and other experts were particularly worried about the spread of mpox in camps for refugees in the country’s conflict-ridden east.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11988079,news_11973108","label":"label='Related Stories"},"numeric":["label='Related","Stories"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The worst case I’ve seen is that of a 6-week-old baby who was just two weeks old when he contracted mpox,” Alonda said, adding the baby has been in their care for a month. “He got infected because hospital overcrowding meant he and his mother were forced to share a room with someone else who had the virus, which was undiagnosed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, scientists also reported the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mpox-congo-outbreak-who-fda17cea128f46e48110ad7adcd9e5de\">emergence of a new form\u003c/a> of the deadlier clade I form of mpox, which can kill up to 10% of people in a Congolese mining town that they feared might spread more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in previous mpox outbreaks, where lesions were mostly seen on the chest, hands and feet, the new form causes milder symptoms and lesions on the genitals. That makes it harder to spot, meaning people might also sicken others without knowing they’re infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Marks, a professor of medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said declaring these latest mpox outbreaks in Africa an emergency is warranted if that might lead to more support to contain them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a failure of the global community that things had to get this bad to release the resources needed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.N. health agency said mpox was recently identified for the first time in four East African countries: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. All of those outbreaks are linked to the one in Congo. In Ivory Coast and South Africa, health authorities have reported outbreaks of the less dangerous clade II version of mpox that spread worldwide in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"mpox-symptoms\">\u003c/a>What to know about mpox symptoms and how the virus spreads\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The mpox virus spreads through close contact with someone who is infected. This could be direct contact with the infectious rashes or scabs someone with mpox develops, scabs, having intimate physical contact with someone who has mpox, such as kissing, cuddling or sex. Coming into contact with infected bodily fluids or items that have been touched by rashes or fluids from an infected person can also expose you to the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mpox symptoms often start as flu-like conditions, SFPDH said — which is worth bearing in mind during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987343/covid-bay-area-wastewater-variant-symptoms-isolation-guidance\">this current COVID-19 surge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mpox virus also appears as a rash or sores or spots that can resemble pimples or blisters on the skin anywhere on the body, including the face, inside the mouth, hands, feet, chest, genitals and anus. These spots often start as red, flat spots that then become bumps before the bumps become filled with pus and turn into scabs when they break. These symptoms can be extremely painful. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/symptoms/index.html\">If you’re unsure about recognizing an mpox rash, the CDC has a photo guide.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/symptoms/index.html\">Mpox can have a long incubation period\u003c/a> — that is, the time between when you’re exposed to mpox and when you start to develop symptoms — that can range from three to 17 days, according to the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you suspect you might have mpox symptoms — even if they’re subtle — see your health care provider right away or \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-mpox-vaccines-testing-and-medicine\">consult one of SFPDH’s clinics for mpox testing\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/mpox\">See more on what to do if you suspect you have mpox.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"mpox-vaccine-near-me\">\u003c/a>Where you can find an mpox vaccine in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The two-dose mpox vaccine is available to anybody in the Bay Area, with no eligibility requirements to meet. (In the early days of the 2022 outbreak, public health officials were originally only offering vaccines to people who’d been exposed to mpox or were categorized as being in a specific group more at risk from mpox, but rest assured that those criteria are no longer in effect.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement that people who have received both doses of the mpox vaccine — along with people who have already had clade II mpox — “are \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/08/14/united-states-governments-response-clade-i-mpox-outbreak-democratic-republic-congo-other-countries-region.html\">expected to be protected against severe illness from clade I mpox\u003c/a>” as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recommend that all people who may be at risk of mpox receive both doses of the Jynneos mpox vaccine,” Roman of the San Francisco Aids Foundation said. “Vaccines are plentiful and easily available at this point in time, from San Francisco AIDS Foundation and other City and community partners.” Mpox vaccination is not recommended at this time for those who have previously been infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who is recommended to get the mpox vaccine?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFDPH said that previous mpox outbreaks have predominantly affected communities of gay and bisexual men and men who have sex with men (MSM), as well as trans and nonbinary people who have sex with men. City health officials also especially recommend the mpox vaccine for all people living with HIV and anyone taking or eligible to take HIV PrEP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials also recommend that sex workers, people who’ve been diagnosed with a bacterial sexually transmitted disease (like chlamydia, gonorrhea or syphilis) in the last three months and folks with certain job-related risks of mpox seek the free vaccine. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-mpox-vaccines-testing-and-medicine\">See SFDPH’s full list of people who may be at higher risk of getting mpox.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mpox vaccine was also originally only available for people aged 18 and older, but in 2022 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency-use authorization that allows providers to also give the vaccine to young people aged under 18 who are “determined to be at high risk” of infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vaccine currently available in the U.S. (brand name: Jynneos) is a two-dose series, with roughly a month between doses. Maximal immunity will build two weeks after your second dose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>If you’ve already had both doses of the mpox vaccine, even back in 2022:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re all up to date — and you don’t need to get another mpox vaccine in 2024. There’s no recommendation at this time to get an mpox booster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>If you \u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ci>haven’t \u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb>already had the mpox vaccine:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Go ahead and get your first dose as soon as possible, then get your second dose around 28 days later. But if you forget or get overwhelmed by events, don’t stress too much about timing: Just go get your mpox vaccine when you can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you already have your first dose but forgot to get your second, go get that last dose as soon as possible — even if you got Dose 1 back in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Locations offering the mpox vaccine in the Bay Area\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Your mpox vaccine will be 100% free, and you don’t need health insurance to receive one. As with the COVID-19 vaccine, receiving an mpox vaccine won’t make you \u003ca href=\"https://documentedny.com/2021/04/04/public-charge-rule-explained/\">a public charge\u003c/a> or affect any future immigration processes you may enter into, and you won’t be asked about your immigration status to receive the mpox vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a regular health care provider, SFDPH recommends you ask them first about getting the mpox vaccine. Your vaccine will be free, but you may be charged a regular copay for seeing your provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t have a regular health care provider or insurance, you can find the mpox vaccine free at clinics around the Bay Area. You can opt to schedule an appointment or choose a walk-in clinic, depending on what works best for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>If you live in or near San Francisco:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/mpox-vaccine\">a full list of mpox vaccine sites near you in San Francisco\u003c/a>. SFDPH confirms that you don’t have to be a city resident to get vaccinated for mpox in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mpox vaccination sites elsewhere in the Bay Area and California:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find an mpox vaccine clinic near you using \u003ca href=\"https://npin.cdc.gov/DynWidgets/index.html?chost=www.cdc.gov&cpath=/lgbthealth/summer/index.html&csearch=&chash=&ctitle=Get%20Healthy%20and%20Ready%20for%20Summer%20%7C%20LGBT%20Health%20%7C%20CDC&wn=DynWidgets&wf=/DynWidgets/&wid=DynWidgets1&mMode=widget&mPage=&mChannel=&componentName=MpoxLocator#/\">the CDC’s Vaccine Locator\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find an mpox vaccine clinic near you using \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">the state’s myturn.ca.gov site\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>SFAF will also administer free first and second doses of the vaccine at the upcoming Castro Street Fair on Oct. 6, with no appointment needed. You can find the SFAF booth at 470 Castro St., San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can I get my mpox vaccine at a pharmacy?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some pharmacies offer mpox vaccination appointments online, along with other vaccines like COVID and flu. But if you choose this route, you’ll be asked for insurance details — and it’s important to verify with your insurer first that they’ll cover you receiving the mpox vaccine at a pharmacy like CVS or Walgreens, as the out-of-pocket costs you’ll be quoted may be steep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you get your health care through a health system like Kaiser Permanente, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to get your mpox vaccine covered by insurance at a pharmacy — the way you can’t get your COVID or flu shot covered by Kaiser at a pharmacy either — and may have to seek it directly from a Kaiser provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re able to make an appointment online at a pharmacy for your mpox vaccine, you should consider calling that location ahead of time to verify that they do indeed have supply in stock. A CVS spokesperson told KQED by email that in San Francisco, CVS pharmacies have “limited supply of the monkeypox vaccine in our pharmacies, but a pharmacist can order the vaccine if requested by a patient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writers Gerald Imray in Cape Town, South Africa, Christina Malkia in Kinshasa, Congo and Mark Banchereau in Dakar, Senegal contributed to this report, as well as KQED’s Nisa Khan.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. 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In the Big One, That Could Save Lives","publishDate":1723575253,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Recent California Earthquakes Had a Few Seconds’ Warning. In the Big One, That Could Save Lives | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Unbeknownst to those walking around Pasadena at lunchtime on Monday, rapid, shallow waves rippling up to the Earth’s surface set off urgent warnings to nearby seismic sensors. The waves pinged a nearby\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/earthquake\"> earthquake\u003c/a> processing center as they spread, and seconds later, phones began to buzz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci40699207/executive\">magnitude 4.4 earthquake\u003c/a> centered in northeast Los Angeles was the latest to rattle Southern California in recent days. Early warnings sent straight to people’s phones, once an impossibility, are partly thanks to the UC Berkeley Seismology Lab, which developed the MyShake app in partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey and state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between the shaking in L.A. and a \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci40865184/executive\">magnitude 5.2 quake\u003c/a> near Bakersfield last week, 800,000 devices got early detection notices through MyShake or other platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even that brief warning can be vital for keeping people safe, especially in a larger earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we’re talking right now, we can have a massive earthquake, and we have no way of knowing except for this tool, and what it does is it gives you valuable seconds that could potentially save your life,” said Jon Gudel, who works with earthquake early warnings at the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sensors spanning the West Coast from Baja California to Canada, including \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.ca.gov/frequently-asked-questions/\">900 in California\u003c/a>, detect the first pressure, or “p,” waves generated by an earthquake, said Angie Lux, a project scientist for the Berkeley Seismology Lab’s earthquake early warning program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When these first p waves, which move fast but are usually weaker than the secondary “s” waves that follow, are picked up by four earthquake sensors, they send data to local processing centers where algorithms developed at Berkeley get to work. Within seconds, an estimated magnitude and level of shaking are generated, and a ShakeAlert message is sent to MyShake, Google and the federal Wireless Emergency Alerts system, which sends push alerts to registered devices in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11965063 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230701-FRESNO-UNHOUSED-HEAT-MHN-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this happened within four seconds, though some devices might not have picked up the notification for a few more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s doing everything really, really fast. And the goal is simply to warn as many people who may feel shaking, particularly strong shaking, as much as we can,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike main seismic networks that determine magnitude after a quake, the MyShake app uses a very small sample of data and works very quickly, she said. This means that sometimes, the initial detection might slightly miscalculate the magnitude, but it recalibrates quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting a warning before an earthquake still feels unusual — Californians have learned from a young age that they’re unpredictable and come on quickly. The idea of an early notification feels impossible — and in some cases, it still is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re right on top of the epicenter and you are closer than our four closest stations, you will probably not receive a warning before you feel the shifting,” Lux said. That area is called the late alert zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Studies that show that this can still be useful to people because sometimes, especially if it’s not as big of an earthquake, sometimes that initial p wave, people kind of feel and they look around and be like, ‘Do you feel that?’ But if you have that alert come in, you’re like, ‘Oh yeah, it is an earthquake.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farther from the epicenter you are, the longer the warning time you can usually get. Lux said the instructions for people who get the notification are the same: duck, cover and hold on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen that for many earthquakes, particularly on the West Coast, in California, the people that are injured are injured by things falling on them because they’re trying to get to safety,” Lux said. “It’s really hard to move during an earthquake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">While the recent string of earthquakes doesn’t mean much in terms of lessening tectonic pressures or subduing the Big One, installing early detection technology on your smartphone and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1949019/its-about-time-how-to-get-ready-for-the-next-emergency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">taking other preparedness measures\u003c/a> like making an emergency kit and coming up with a household plan might make you safer if one does hit.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/wcruz\">Billy Cruz\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Hundreds of thousands of people received early warnings for Monday’s Los Angeles earthquake and others, thanks in part to the MyShake app developed at UC Berkeley.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1723577139,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":759},"headData":{"title":"Recent California Earthquakes Had a Few Seconds’ Warning. 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The waves pinged a nearby\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/earthquake\"> earthquake\u003c/a> processing center as they spread, and seconds later, phones began to buzz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci40699207/executive\">magnitude 4.4 earthquake\u003c/a> centered in northeast Los Angeles was the latest to rattle Southern California in recent days. Early warnings sent straight to people’s phones, once an impossibility, are partly thanks to the UC Berkeley Seismology Lab, which developed the MyShake app in partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey and state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between the shaking in L.A. and a \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci40865184/executive\">magnitude 5.2 quake\u003c/a> near Bakersfield last week, 800,000 devices got early detection notices through MyShake or other platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even that brief warning can be vital for keeping people safe, especially in a larger earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we’re talking right now, we can have a massive earthquake, and we have no way of knowing except for this tool, and what it does is it gives you valuable seconds that could potentially save your life,” said Jon Gudel, who works with earthquake early warnings at the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sensors spanning the West Coast from Baja California to Canada, including \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.ca.gov/frequently-asked-questions/\">900 in California\u003c/a>, detect the first pressure, or “p,” waves generated by an earthquake, said Angie Lux, a project scientist for the Berkeley Seismology Lab’s earthquake early warning program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When these first p waves, which move fast but are usually weaker than the secondary “s” waves that follow, are picked up by four earthquake sensors, they send data to local processing centers where algorithms developed at Berkeley get to work. Within seconds, an estimated magnitude and level of shaking are generated, and a ShakeAlert message is sent to MyShake, Google and the federal Wireless Emergency Alerts system, which sends push alerts to registered devices in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11965063","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230701-FRESNO-UNHOUSED-HEAT-MHN-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this happened within four seconds, though some devices might not have picked up the notification for a few more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s doing everything really, really fast. And the goal is simply to warn as many people who may feel shaking, particularly strong shaking, as much as we can,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike main seismic networks that determine magnitude after a quake, the MyShake app uses a very small sample of data and works very quickly, she said. This means that sometimes, the initial detection might slightly miscalculate the magnitude, but it recalibrates quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting a warning before an earthquake still feels unusual — Californians have learned from a young age that they’re unpredictable and come on quickly. The idea of an early notification feels impossible — and in some cases, it still is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re right on top of the epicenter and you are closer than our four closest stations, you will probably not receive a warning before you feel the shifting,” Lux said. That area is called the late alert zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Studies that show that this can still be useful to people because sometimes, especially if it’s not as big of an earthquake, sometimes that initial p wave, people kind of feel and they look around and be like, ‘Do you feel that?’ But if you have that alert come in, you’re like, ‘Oh yeah, it is an earthquake.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farther from the epicenter you are, the longer the warning time you can usually get. Lux said the instructions for people who get the notification are the same: duck, cover and hold on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen that for many earthquakes, particularly on the West Coast, in California, the people that are injured are injured by things falling on them because they’re trying to get to safety,” Lux said. “It’s really hard to move during an earthquake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">While the recent string of earthquakes doesn’t mean much in terms of lessening tectonic pressures or subduing the Big One, installing early detection technology on your smartphone and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1949019/its-about-time-how-to-get-ready-for-the-next-emergency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">taking other preparedness measures\u003c/a> like making an emergency kit and coming up with a household plan might make you safer if one does hit.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/wcruz\">Billy Cruz\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11999982/recent-california-earthquakes-had-a-few-seconds-warning-in-the-big-one-that-could-save-lives","authors":["11913"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_1012","news_17826","news_24504","news_27017","news_1631","news_17597"],"featImg":"news_11999988","label":"news"},"news_11988621":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11988621","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11988621","score":null,"sort":[1717352932000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"firefighters-see-favorable-weather-conditions-for-containing-corral-fire","title":"Firefighters See Favorable Weather Conditions For Containing Corral Fire","publishDate":1717352932,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Firefighters See Favorable Weather Conditions For Containing Corral Fire | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:15 p.m. Sunday.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California firefighters aided by aircraft are battling \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfire-national-lab-c125ea03f228b8df65d4e66729477189\">a wind-driven wildfire\u003c/a> that continued not only burning but spreading early today in an area straddling the San Francisco Bay Area and central California, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Corral Fire began Saturday afternoon near the city of Tracy and east of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire. Dark plumes of smoke traveled high into the sky over the fire area comprised mostly of grassy hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/cal_fire/status/1797354179771638106?s=46&t=HGSsaKCOQ1QM5hJKt_8U2A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier today, the blaze appeared to be growing, fueled by hot and dry conditions in California. Cal Fire updated the size of the fire to 22 square miles, up from 19.5 square miles earlier this morning. The fire is now 50 percent contained. Chief Baraka Carter said \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2024/6/1/corral-fire/updates/d1bf71d4-c7fc-4b20-a1dc-8ea0919ce0e9\">two fire workers were injured\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988648\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke seen in the distance behind a building structure.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Interstate 580 from South Bird Road in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The westbound side of Interstate 580 was back open at 11:00 a.m. while Caltrans said eastbound I-580 remained closed. Caltrans said Highway 132 has also reopened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1797315840121176184\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/calfireSCU/status/1797411230703059105\">announced on X\u003c/a>, known formerly as Twitter, that as of 6:00 p.m., evacuation orders for the Corral Fire would be downgraded to evacuation warnings. Road closures for nonresidents would continue on South Corral Hollow Road and Chrisman Road south of I-580. Cal Fire advised residents to remain vigilant and be prepared for potential changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Joaquin County Office of Emergency Services had previously issued an evacuation order for areas west of the California Aqueduct, south of Corral Hollow Creek, west to Alameda County and south to Stanislaus County. A temporary evacuation point was established at Larch Clover Community Center in Tracy. Caitlin Cortez evacuated from her home last night in Tracy after neighboring houses caught fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband came home and basically told me ‘you got five minutes to pack what you need and get the kids and dog and get out,'” she said. “Trees were bursting up in flames and a propane tank blew up last night out there. It was pretty dicey all night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A white man and woman wearing sun glasses sit next to each other on the back of a truck near a gas station.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988658\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Travis Curtiss and his wife Megan wait at a 76 gas station on Chrisman Road south of Tracy on June 2, 2024, for officials to allow them to see what is left of Curtiss’ parents’ home after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. Christie and Stevan Curtiss, the parents of Travis Curtiss, evacuated their home to a local hotel on the evening of June 1 as they saw a barn at the back of the property on fire. Their home was the only house in the area to burn. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego’s ALERTCalifornia safety program released time-lapse video footage of the start of the Corral Fire, monitoring how it spread and raged throughout the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKGYfcUlmHk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Winds have died down significantly, the temperatures have dropped and our relative humidities have gone way up, which gives us the upper hand,” said Cal Fire Battalion Chief Josh Silveira. “We have that opportunity to really go, on an offensive attack on this fire, putting good control lines right on the fire’s edge, and stopping the growth from here on out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988644\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988644\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A red emergency vehicle to the left is parked in front of fire damaged trees by a road.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire damage on Bernard Road near the Tracy Golf and Country Club in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silveira said high winds yesterday made it very difficult to put down lines around the perimeter of the fire, but weather conditions today “are definitely in our favor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service said “dangerously hot conditions” with highs of 103 to 108 were expected later in the week for San Joaquin Valley, an area that encompasses the city of Tracy. Wind gusts of up to 45 mph lashed the region Saturday night, according to meteorologist Idamis Shoemaker of the NWS Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988643\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988643\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charred fields next to houses on Vernalis Road near the Tracy Golf and Country Club in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The wildfire was near the Lawrence Livermore laboratory’s Site 300 southwest of Tracy, Cal Fire said in a social media post late Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawrence Livermore is a research and development institution primarily focusing on the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. Site 300, 15 miles east of the laboratory’s main installation, supports “development of explosive materials as well as hydrodynamic testing and diagnostics,” according to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988641\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing fire safety equipment and holding a tool walks past charred remains of vehicles.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire crews work on a property on Vernalis Road near the Tracy Golf and Country Club in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The wildfire presented no threats to any laboratory facilities or operations and the fire had moved away from the site, Lawrence Livermore spokesperson Paul Rhien said in a statement to The Associated Press early Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been working in close partnership with Cal Fire, Alameda County Fire Dept, and other emergency services partners throughout the evening,” Rhien said. “As a precaution, we have activated our emergency operations center to monitor the situation through the weekend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press and KQED’s Katherine Monahan, Sara Hossaini, and Beth LaBerge contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, says gusty winds were fueling the Corral Fire that began Saturday afternoon and continued early this morning near the city of Tracy, 60 miles east of San Francisco. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1722640420,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":953},"headData":{"title":"Firefighters See Favorable Weather Conditions For Containing Corral Fire | KQED","description":"The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, says gusty winds were fueling the Corral Fire that began Saturday afternoon and continued early this morning near the city of Tracy, 60 miles east of San Francisco. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Firefighters See Favorable Weather Conditions For Containing Corral Fire","datePublished":"2024-06-02T11:28:52-07:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T16:13:40-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11988621","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11988621/firefighters-see-favorable-weather-conditions-for-containing-corral-fire","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:15 p.m. Sunday.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California firefighters aided by aircraft are battling \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfire-national-lab-c125ea03f228b8df65d4e66729477189\">a wind-driven wildfire\u003c/a> that continued not only burning but spreading early today in an area straddling the San Francisco Bay Area and central California, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Corral Fire began Saturday afternoon near the city of Tracy and east of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire. Dark plumes of smoke traveled high into the sky over the fire area comprised mostly of grassy hills.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1797354179771638106"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Earlier today, the blaze appeared to be growing, fueled by hot and dry conditions in California. Cal Fire updated the size of the fire to 22 square miles, up from 19.5 square miles earlier this morning. The fire is now 50 percent contained. Chief Baraka Carter said \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2024/6/1/corral-fire/updates/d1bf71d4-c7fc-4b20-a1dc-8ea0919ce0e9\">two fire workers were injured\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988648\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke seen in the distance behind a building structure.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-05-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Interstate 580 from South Bird Road in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The westbound side of Interstate 580 was back open at 11:00 a.m. while Caltrans said eastbound I-580 remained closed. Caltrans said Highway 132 has also reopened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1797315840121176184"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/calfireSCU/status/1797411230703059105\">announced on X\u003c/a>, known formerly as Twitter, that as of 6:00 p.m., evacuation orders for the Corral Fire would be downgraded to evacuation warnings. Road closures for nonresidents would continue on South Corral Hollow Road and Chrisman Road south of I-580. Cal Fire advised residents to remain vigilant and be prepared for potential changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Joaquin County Office of Emergency Services had previously issued an evacuation order for areas west of the California Aqueduct, south of Corral Hollow Creek, west to Alameda County and south to Stanislaus County. A temporary evacuation point was established at Larch Clover Community Center in Tracy. Caitlin Cortez evacuated from her home last night in Tracy after neighboring houses caught fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband came home and basically told me ‘you got five minutes to pack what you need and get the kids and dog and get out,'” she said. “Trees were bursting up in flames and a propane tank blew up last night out there. It was pretty dicey all night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A white man and woman wearing sun glasses sit next to each other on the back of a truck near a gas station.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988658\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-48-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Travis Curtiss and his wife Megan wait at a 76 gas station on Chrisman Road south of Tracy on June 2, 2024, for officials to allow them to see what is left of Curtiss’ parents’ home after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. Christie and Stevan Curtiss, the parents of Travis Curtiss, evacuated their home to a local hotel on the evening of June 1 as they saw a barn at the back of the property on fire. Their home was the only house in the area to burn. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego’s ALERTCalifornia safety program released time-lapse video footage of the start of the Corral Fire, monitoring how it spread and raged throughout the night.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zKGYfcUlmHk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zKGYfcUlmHk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“Winds have died down significantly, the temperatures have dropped and our relative humidities have gone way up, which gives us the upper hand,” said Cal Fire Battalion Chief Josh Silveira. “We have that opportunity to really go, on an offensive attack on this fire, putting good control lines right on the fire’s edge, and stopping the growth from here on out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988644\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988644\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A red emergency vehicle to the left is parked in front of fire damaged trees by a road.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-30-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire damage on Bernard Road near the Tracy Golf and Country Club in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silveira said high winds yesterday made it very difficult to put down lines around the perimeter of the fire, but weather conditions today “are definitely in our favor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service said “dangerously hot conditions” with highs of 103 to 108 were expected later in the week for San Joaquin Valley, an area that encompasses the city of Tracy. Wind gusts of up to 45 mph lashed the region Saturday night, according to meteorologist Idamis Shoemaker of the NWS Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988643\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988643\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-27-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charred fields next to houses on Vernalis Road near the Tracy Golf and Country Club in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The wildfire was near the Lawrence Livermore laboratory’s Site 300 southwest of Tracy, Cal Fire said in a social media post late Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawrence Livermore is a research and development institution primarily focusing on the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. Site 300, 15 miles east of the laboratory’s main installation, supports “development of explosive materials as well as hydrodynamic testing and diagnostics,” according to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988641\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing fire safety equipment and holding a tool walks past charred remains of vehicles.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240602-CorralFire-15-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire crews work on a property on Vernalis Road near the Tracy Golf and Country Club in Tracy on June 2, 2024, after the Corral Fire swept through the evening before. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The wildfire presented no threats to any laboratory facilities or operations and the fire had moved away from the site, Lawrence Livermore spokesperson Paul Rhien said in a statement to The Associated Press early Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been working in close partnership with Cal Fire, Alameda County Fire Dept, and other emergency services partners throughout the evening,” Rhien said. “As a precaution, we have activated our emergency operations center to monitor the situation through the weekend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press and KQED’s Katherine Monahan, Sara Hossaini, and Beth LaBerge contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11988621/firefighters-see-favorable-weather-conditions-for-containing-corral-fire","authors":["237"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_6383","news_24504","news_27626","news_18512","news_21047","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11988649","label":"news"},"news_11969882":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11969882","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11969882","score":null,"sort":[1702638008000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"when-disaster-strikes-in-english-only","title":"When Disaster Strikes in English Only","publishDate":1702638008,"format":"audio","headTitle":"When Disaster Strikes in English Only | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the many languages spoken in the Bay Area, Alameda and Solano Counties only send out emergency alerts in English, leaving at least one in ten Bay Area residents at risk of missing life-saving information in the face of disaster. El Timpano senior reporter \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/author/jasmine-aguilera/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jasmine Aguilera\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> explains why that is, and which counties are succeeding in disseminating critical information to everyone. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC5665754787\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/public-safety/alert-this-is-an-emergency-but-for-english-speakers-only/\">ALERT: This is an emergency — but for English speakers only\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11784071/in-latino-heavy-sonoma-a-tiny-radio-station-relays-critical-fire-information-in-indigenous-languages\">The Tiny Radio Station Relaying Critical Kincade Fire Information in Indigenous Languages\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Back in September when wildfire smoke hovered over the Bay Area, emergency alerts started popping up on people’s phones. Air quality reached hazardous levels for those with respiratory diseases, the alerts read. But for the thousands of Bay Area residents who speak a language other than English at home, it would take days for them to receive the same alert in their native language, if at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>You know, if you’re not hearing that you’re evacuating because it’s misunderstood or they’re telling you the wrong area, you might not get out in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>According to reporting from El Timpano, more than a quarter of non-English speakers living in the Bay Area don’t have access to emergency alerts in their native language. Today, we’re going to dig into this language gap in local emergency alert systems here in the bay and how one county has been working to change that. Jasmine, I wonder if you can maybe just start by explaining when a disaster strikes, do we have systems set up to let everyone know when stuff hits the fan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>The short answer, unfortunately, is for a lot of people, no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Jasmine Aguilera is a senior reporter for El Timpano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>For the most part, not everybody will receive timely and accurate information and in their own language or analysis adulting. But I found that of California’s 58 counties, only 21 offer alerts in a language other than English. We’re also giving these counties the benefit of the doubt because a lot of times we cannot actually test whether or not these alerts will send out until we can actually test their systems. So we took a look at the nine Bay Area counties here and determined that 3.2 million people here speak a language other than English at home. And because Alameda County and Solano counties do not offer alerts in a language other than English, we’re talking about at least 27% of the population that doesn’t have access to emergency alerts in their native language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So those two counties that you mentioned, Alameda and Solano County, are the only counties in the Bay Area who aren’t offering alerts in any language other than English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>Exactly. And I mean, two out of the nine. You know, that’s not bad. But these are counties with gigantic non-English populations. So it is a significant part of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Jasmine, I wonder if we can step back a little bit and explain for us how these emergency alert systems work exactly and why is this happening? Where is the breakdown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>So even signing up for alerts we found can be really challenging for non-English speakers. And we cover the Latino and Mayan immigrant communities here in the Bay Area. And we’ve done several surveys that show that often times, especially older immigrants do not have computers at home, do not have Internet at home. They may not even have an email address. And for the vast majority of California counties, you have to opt into the program. You have to actually go to the county website, put in your information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And oftentimes these websites are asking for first name, last name, email addresses and home addresses. It is pretty obvious that if you’re an undocumented person, older person not familiar with technology, you may feel nervous about, you know, giving the government your personal address or you may not even understand what’s going on on this Web page. Many of the Web pages technically may offer a translated version if you select a widget at the top of the page to change your language preferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>But if you’re not a tech savvy person, you may not know that at the top of the page where it says language, that means Ijeoma that you can change the language there. We found very few counties where you can text in to opt in, and even those it’s very hit or miss, whether or not even if you’re opting in, in your native language, whether you’ll actually receive ultimately those alerts in your native language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Do we know anything about why it is an opt in system when any one of us would want to know what’s happening as soon as it happens, if there’s an emergency in our community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>It sounds like a simple fix would be to create one gigantic system where people can opt in and then those that are at a federal level that exists. But we’re talking about a state that is gigantic, very complicated, very ecologically diverse. Disasters will vary depending on what part of the state you’re in. And so purposefully, the state of California has tried to make sure that each county is empowered to design their own individual opt in programs because they want to make sure that officials can handle whatever disaster is going on on a very localized level. But that means there isn’t one simple solution if you’re trying to make sure that disaster responses can be very, very localized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And we found that, you know, sometimes there are the best intentions, just a lack of resources or other times they really just isn’t enough willpower to try to, you know, create a system. Maybe the population of non-English speakers is small enough that it’s just not top of mind for people when they’ve got so many other things that are on their plate. And then we found other counties that are in the middle of actually trying as hard as possible to create a robust system. But at least at the time of reporting, we found, you know, the vast majority of California’s programs are not up to the task right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, we’ll talk about one Bay Area county that has put in the work to reach more residents in an emergency. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Your reporting kind of zoomed into one Bay Area county in particular that was really trying to get its act together specifically for the Spanish speaking population. Can you tell me about that and what what your reporting found?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>We didn’t have to look very far. We went over to Sonoma County and saw the steps that they’ve taken. Basically, I mean, officials, they themselves will say it’s because they’ve faced disaster after disaster after disaster essentially since 2017. And they realized since the Tubbs fire of 2017 that their communications were just lacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>In 2017 when that fire hit. None of this was in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>We spoke to Alma Bowen, who is the founder and executive director of Nuestra Comunidad, a nonprofit organization that focuses on disaster preparedness and reaching specifically Spanish speaking communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>And there was no organization. And so there were either duplication of services or there were needs that were not met because we simply didn’t know who could fill those needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>Ultimately, what they did is they revamped their Sonoma County coed community organizations active in disaster. That’s what the acronym for which was a coalition of nonprofit organizations that are all each doing their own individual work for the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>As soon as they’re going to activate their EOC or emergency operations center. That call gets put to code. From that moment on, until the emergency sovereign shuts down, one of us is present in that room. The expectation is that the message is go out simultaneously and at least English and Spanish, because those are our highest populations. And then year round, that’s part of the conversations we’re always having with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And also giving them a seat at the county government table so that everybody is in communication. Everybody knows what to do whenever a disaster strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>And so what’s happened is over time, we have become true partners now with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And then on top of that, they’ve also created essentially this bank of alerts prepared in advance in English and Spanish at the county level. So we’re talking about thousands of clips of audio in English and Spanish that are localized per Sonoma County zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>So if there’s, you know, flooding in zone four, you know, they’ve got a clip already prerecorded so that they can just send that out in a push of a button rather than, you know, trying to gather all of the people and find a translator and make sure, you know, that that it’s all recorded before sending. It saves potentially, you know, minutes or hours. It could save lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>You know, if you’re not hearing that, you’re evacuating because it’s misunderstood or they’re telling you the wrong area, you might not get out in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>There’s still a lot of people who will be left out even now. But, you know, as far as we could see, they are the ones who have really taken on the task and have have tried to do as much as possible since 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m wondering, Jasmine, why you think Sonoma County was able to get its act together in this where I guess address this and why haven’t other counties been able to do that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>Alma Bowen said it best that Sonoma County really had no choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>Had we not had Kincade Walbridge Glass, you know, all those different fires right out like almost on the heel of each other? I don’t know. It’s like every time a fire hit, it just kept smacking him into reality. You have to do something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>She also said it’s important for these counties in California to realize that they have time right now. They can right now in this moment, try to revamp their programs, because when a disaster hits, that’s you know, that’s not the moment that you need to be trying to fix your system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>My words of advice is, don’t wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, how do we do that then, Jasmyne? How do we get other counties on the same level as Sonoma County here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>In the state of California themselves will tell you that every county has to own this. Lisa California, for example, it is a government level organization that will aid counties in revamping their system, that will provide, you know, language already pre written and resources already established. But each county needs to be able to own. They don’t want to step on toes is what they told me. It’s a matter of willpower and it’s a matter of resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>There is not a one size fits all that will solve the problem for each each county. We did find examples of other counties who are making efforts. They are taking steps at the moment. It’s a it’s a process. It takes time. I even in Sonoma County, it’s taken years. It’s complicated, but it’s also not complicated in a weird way. You know, there are solutions, there are models. Sonoma County is an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>It’s doable. It’s doable. What is your biggest takeaway from this story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>My biggest takeaway really has been how essential language access is. It’s something that, you know, as an English speaker, as a bilingual speaker, but primarily English speaker. I realize the enormous privilege now that I have whenever I receive an alert about, you know, just a traffic jam in San Francisco that I can avoid, other people will probably get stuck up in that jam. Imagine, you know, just kind of the snowball effect there. If you get stuck in that traffic jam, you’re late for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And for me, maybe being late for work isn’t so much a significant thing. But for someone else who is an hourly worker, that’s significant. It’s not even just emergencies. Sometimes it’s as simple as just getting through your daily life. Making things more accessible through language, I think is kind of the least we can do in California. You know, the state with the largest immigrant population in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Jasmine, thank you so much for sharing your reporting with us and joining us on the show. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>Thank you so much, Ericka. Really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Jasmine Aguilera, a senior reporter for El Timpano. We’ll leave you a link to Jasmine’s full story in El Timpano. In our show notes, this 30 minute conversation with Jasmine was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo. Maria Esquinca is our producer, she scored this episode and added all the tape, additional production support from me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The rest of our podcast squad here at KQED includes Jen Chien, our director of podcasts. Katie Sprenger, our podcast operations Manager. Cesar Saldana, our podcast engagement producer. Maha Sanad, our podcast engagement intern. And Holly Kernan, our Chief Content officer. The Bay is a production of your local public media station KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"At least one in ten Bay Area residents are at risk of missing life-saving information in the face of disaster.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1722631930,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":51,"wordCount":2530},"headData":{"title":"When Disaster Strikes in English Only | KQED","description":"At least one in ten Bay Area residents are at risk of missing life-saving information in the face of disaster.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"When Disaster Strikes in English Only","datePublished":"2023-12-15T03:00:08-08:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T13:52:10-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"The Bay","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/thebay","audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chrt.fm/track/G6C7C3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC5665754787.mp3?updated=1702590664","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11969882/when-disaster-strikes-in-english-only","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the many languages spoken in the Bay Area, Alameda and Solano Counties only send out emergency alerts in English, leaving at least one in ten Bay Area residents at risk of missing life-saving information in the face of disaster. El Timpano senior reporter \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/author/jasmine-aguilera/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jasmine Aguilera\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> explains why that is, and which counties are succeeding in disseminating critical information to everyone. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC5665754787\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/public-safety/alert-this-is-an-emergency-but-for-english-speakers-only/\">ALERT: This is an emergency — but for English speakers only\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11784071/in-latino-heavy-sonoma-a-tiny-radio-station-relays-critical-fire-information-in-indigenous-languages\">The Tiny Radio Station Relaying Critical Kincade Fire Information in Indigenous Languages\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Back in September when wildfire smoke hovered over the Bay Area, emergency alerts started popping up on people’s phones. Air quality reached hazardous levels for those with respiratory diseases, the alerts read. But for the thousands of Bay Area residents who speak a language other than English at home, it would take days for them to receive the same alert in their native language, if at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>You know, if you’re not hearing that you’re evacuating because it’s misunderstood or they’re telling you the wrong area, you might not get out in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>According to reporting from El Timpano, more than a quarter of non-English speakers living in the Bay Area don’t have access to emergency alerts in their native language. Today, we’re going to dig into this language gap in local emergency alert systems here in the bay and how one county has been working to change that. Jasmine, I wonder if you can maybe just start by explaining when a disaster strikes, do we have systems set up to let everyone know when stuff hits the fan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>The short answer, unfortunately, is for a lot of people, no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Jasmine Aguilera is a senior reporter for El Timpano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>For the most part, not everybody will receive timely and accurate information and in their own language or analysis adulting. But I found that of California’s 58 counties, only 21 offer alerts in a language other than English. We’re also giving these counties the benefit of the doubt because a lot of times we cannot actually test whether or not these alerts will send out until we can actually test their systems. So we took a look at the nine Bay Area counties here and determined that 3.2 million people here speak a language other than English at home. And because Alameda County and Solano counties do not offer alerts in a language other than English, we’re talking about at least 27% of the population that doesn’t have access to emergency alerts in their native language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So those two counties that you mentioned, Alameda and Solano County, are the only counties in the Bay Area who aren’t offering alerts in any language other than English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>Exactly. And I mean, two out of the nine. You know, that’s not bad. But these are counties with gigantic non-English populations. So it is a significant part of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Jasmine, I wonder if we can step back a little bit and explain for us how these emergency alert systems work exactly and why is this happening? Where is the breakdown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>So even signing up for alerts we found can be really challenging for non-English speakers. And we cover the Latino and Mayan immigrant communities here in the Bay Area. And we’ve done several surveys that show that often times, especially older immigrants do not have computers at home, do not have Internet at home. They may not even have an email address. And for the vast majority of California counties, you have to opt into the program. You have to actually go to the county website, put in your information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And oftentimes these websites are asking for first name, last name, email addresses and home addresses. It is pretty obvious that if you’re an undocumented person, older person not familiar with technology, you may feel nervous about, you know, giving the government your personal address or you may not even understand what’s going on on this Web page. Many of the Web pages technically may offer a translated version if you select a widget at the top of the page to change your language preferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>But if you’re not a tech savvy person, you may not know that at the top of the page where it says language, that means Ijeoma that you can change the language there. We found very few counties where you can text in to opt in, and even those it’s very hit or miss, whether or not even if you’re opting in, in your native language, whether you’ll actually receive ultimately those alerts in your native language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Do we know anything about why it is an opt in system when any one of us would want to know what’s happening as soon as it happens, if there’s an emergency in our community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>It sounds like a simple fix would be to create one gigantic system where people can opt in and then those that are at a federal level that exists. But we’re talking about a state that is gigantic, very complicated, very ecologically diverse. Disasters will vary depending on what part of the state you’re in. And so purposefully, the state of California has tried to make sure that each county is empowered to design their own individual opt in programs because they want to make sure that officials can handle whatever disaster is going on on a very localized level. But that means there isn’t one simple solution if you’re trying to make sure that disaster responses can be very, very localized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And we found that, you know, sometimes there are the best intentions, just a lack of resources or other times they really just isn’t enough willpower to try to, you know, create a system. Maybe the population of non-English speakers is small enough that it’s just not top of mind for people when they’ve got so many other things that are on their plate. And then we found other counties that are in the middle of actually trying as hard as possible to create a robust system. But at least at the time of reporting, we found, you know, the vast majority of California’s programs are not up to the task right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, we’ll talk about one Bay Area county that has put in the work to reach more residents in an emergency. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Your reporting kind of zoomed into one Bay Area county in particular that was really trying to get its act together specifically for the Spanish speaking population. Can you tell me about that and what what your reporting found?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>We didn’t have to look very far. We went over to Sonoma County and saw the steps that they’ve taken. Basically, I mean, officials, they themselves will say it’s because they’ve faced disaster after disaster after disaster essentially since 2017. And they realized since the Tubbs fire of 2017 that their communications were just lacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>In 2017 when that fire hit. None of this was in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>We spoke to Alma Bowen, who is the founder and executive director of Nuestra Comunidad, a nonprofit organization that focuses on disaster preparedness and reaching specifically Spanish speaking communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>And there was no organization. And so there were either duplication of services or there were needs that were not met because we simply didn’t know who could fill those needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>Ultimately, what they did is they revamped their Sonoma County coed community organizations active in disaster. That’s what the acronym for which was a coalition of nonprofit organizations that are all each doing their own individual work for the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>As soon as they’re going to activate their EOC or emergency operations center. That call gets put to code. From that moment on, until the emergency sovereign shuts down, one of us is present in that room. The expectation is that the message is go out simultaneously and at least English and Spanish, because those are our highest populations. And then year round, that’s part of the conversations we’re always having with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And also giving them a seat at the county government table so that everybody is in communication. Everybody knows what to do whenever a disaster strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>And so what’s happened is over time, we have become true partners now with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And then on top of that, they’ve also created essentially this bank of alerts prepared in advance in English and Spanish at the county level. So we’re talking about thousands of clips of audio in English and Spanish that are localized per Sonoma County zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>So if there’s, you know, flooding in zone four, you know, they’ve got a clip already prerecorded so that they can just send that out in a push of a button rather than, you know, trying to gather all of the people and find a translator and make sure, you know, that that it’s all recorded before sending. It saves potentially, you know, minutes or hours. It could save lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>You know, if you’re not hearing that, you’re evacuating because it’s misunderstood or they’re telling you the wrong area, you might not get out in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>There’s still a lot of people who will be left out even now. But, you know, as far as we could see, they are the ones who have really taken on the task and have have tried to do as much as possible since 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m wondering, Jasmine, why you think Sonoma County was able to get its act together in this where I guess address this and why haven’t other counties been able to do that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>Alma Bowen said it best that Sonoma County really had no choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>Had we not had Kincade Walbridge Glass, you know, all those different fires right out like almost on the heel of each other? I don’t know. It’s like every time a fire hit, it just kept smacking him into reality. You have to do something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>She also said it’s important for these counties in California to realize that they have time right now. They can right now in this moment, try to revamp their programs, because when a disaster hits, that’s you know, that’s not the moment that you need to be trying to fix your system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>My words of advice is, don’t wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, how do we do that then, Jasmyne? How do we get other counties on the same level as Sonoma County here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>In the state of California themselves will tell you that every county has to own this. Lisa California, for example, it is a government level organization that will aid counties in revamping their system, that will provide, you know, language already pre written and resources already established. But each county needs to be able to own. They don’t want to step on toes is what they told me. It’s a matter of willpower and it’s a matter of resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>There is not a one size fits all that will solve the problem for each each county. We did find examples of other counties who are making efforts. They are taking steps at the moment. It’s a it’s a process. It takes time. I even in Sonoma County, it’s taken years. It’s complicated, but it’s also not complicated in a weird way. You know, there are solutions, there are models. Sonoma County is an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>It’s doable. It’s doable. What is your biggest takeaway from this story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>My biggest takeaway really has been how essential language access is. It’s something that, you know, as an English speaker, as a bilingual speaker, but primarily English speaker. I realize the enormous privilege now that I have whenever I receive an alert about, you know, just a traffic jam in San Francisco that I can avoid, other people will probably get stuck up in that jam. Imagine, you know, just kind of the snowball effect there. If you get stuck in that traffic jam, you’re late for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And for me, maybe being late for work isn’t so much a significant thing. But for someone else who is an hourly worker, that’s significant. It’s not even just emergencies. Sometimes it’s as simple as just getting through your daily life. Making things more accessible through language, I think is kind of the least we can do in California. You know, the state with the largest immigrant population in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Jasmine, thank you so much for sharing your reporting with us and joining us on the show. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>Thank you so much, Ericka. Really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Jasmine Aguilera, a senior reporter for El Timpano. We’ll leave you a link to Jasmine’s full story in El Timpano. In our show notes, this 30 minute conversation with Jasmine was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo. Maria Esquinca is our producer, she scored this episode and added all the tape, additional production support from me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The rest of our podcast squad here at KQED includes Jen Chien, our director of podcasts. Katie Sprenger, our podcast operations Manager. Cesar Saldana, our podcast engagement producer. Maha Sanad, our podcast engagement intern. And Holly Kernan, our Chief Content officer. The Bay is a production of your local public media station KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11969882/when-disaster-strikes-in-english-only","authors":["8654","11649","11802"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_24504","news_26914","news_4981","news_22598","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11969883","label":"source_news_11969882"},"news_11840047":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11840047","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11840047","score":null,"sort":[1601416979000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"during-a-disaster-your-phone-might-stop-working-how-can-you-communicate","title":"During a Wildfire, Your Phone Might Stop Working. How Can You Communicate?","publishDate":1601416979,"format":"standard","headTitle":"During a Wildfire, Your Phone Might Stop Working. How Can You Communicate? | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated June 21, 2024\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a disaster situation like a wildfire or an earthquake, communication between you and those you care about is key. But what if the one device you rely on to communicate — your phone — isn’t working?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cellphone service can be reduced or vanish altogether during emergencies, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/11/california-wildfires-reps-blast-cell-companies-unconscionable-move-to-block-backup-power-rules/\">cell towers go down\u003c/a> amid power shutoffs, or when overhead fiber lines on utility poles are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11622310/fire-victims-frustrated-by-lack-of-wireless-connectivity\">damaged by fire itself\u003c/a>. Service interruptions like these stop people from being able to get in touch with family and friends to confirm their safety, and prevent them from receiving the very emergency alerts they’re relying on for evacuation updates. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834901/fire-evacuation-what-actually-happens-and-how-can-you-plan#2\">If you’re not signed up for emergency alerts, do it right now here.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you’re caught in a disaster situation like a wildfire and your cellphone loses coverage, what can you do? There are a few steps you can take to maintain contact with others, and to keep loved ones updated on your safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Be prepared to lose calls or texts (or both)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The best form of preparation for an emergency situation is being able to adapt, says Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore. You might be able to make a call, but not be able to send or receive texts, or the other way around. Or you might have to completely rely on finding Wi-Fi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because of \u003cem>how\u003c/em> cellphone coverage fails during a disaster like a wildfire. When lines are themselves damaged by fire, calls won’t work, but texts — which place less demand on cell towers — might.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#save\">Save our tip graphic to your phone’s camera roll\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>But if there’s an outage because of a public safety power shutoff, smaller cell towers might not get power from the system’s battery backup, meaning cellphone data clogs up and texts can’t get through. This, Gore says, is what happened to a huge number of Sonoma County residents during the 2017 wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you find yourself in this kind of situation, Gore advises that you just “keep trying.” Confusingly, your phone’s screen might \u003cem>look\u003c/em> like you have good coverage, but cellphone data being overwhelmed will still prevent you from using your phone like usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A road closure sign in Felton during the CZU Lightning Complex fire on Aug. 20, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Know how to find Wi-Fi in an emergency\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Places like large stores (think Walmart) or coffee shops, like Starbucks, might provide Wi-Fi, and you often will be able to pick up the signal outside in the parking lot. Your internet provider might also offer free Wi-Fi hotspots in your region in a disaster situation, something Gore says is becoming more common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise, you can almost certainly find Wi-Fi at one of your county’s temporary evacuation points. It’s worth noting that during the height of the COVID pandemic, counties were frequently focused on providing smaller temporary evacuation points and on offering hotel vouchers to evacuees instead of the usual large shelters with cots you might expect — to maintain social distancing and avoid the risk of virus transmission indoors in big groups — so you might still potentially encounter a smaller evacuation center than you might expect. Nonetheless, as well as offering Wi-Fi, a temporary evacuation point is also “a place to park your car, to take a deep breath and communicate with people, because your mind will be spinning a thousand times a minute,” Gore says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Change your cellphone settings to allow voice calls over Wi-Fi\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When your cellular data isn’t available, you can set your phone to make and receive calls using Wi-Fi, when you have access to it. This is a setting you’ll almost certainly have to enable on your phone — it’s not a default.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to allow voice calls over Wi-Fi:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>On iPhone: Settings > Phone > Wi-Fi Calling.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On Android: Each model may be different, but you’ll still find this somewhere under Settings. On Samsung phones look under Connections, and on Google phones look under Calls.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Note: You might have to actually call your cellphone provider, like Verizon or AT&T, to ask them to activate Wi-Fi calling on your behalf. This is why it’s best to make sure that your phone has this capability in advance, as calling your provider is \u003cem>not\u003c/em> something you’re going to want to have to do during an actual disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Use your voicemail greeting to update friends and family\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Change your voicemail welcome recording when you get cell or Wi-Fi service, and use it to let anyone who calls know your safety status. This means that even when their calls can’t get through to you, your friends and family can hear the information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to change your voicemail message:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>On iPhone: Phone > Voicemail > Greeting.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On Android: Each model may vary, but look for Phone Settings to find the way to change your voicemail message.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840215\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11840215\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How can you communicate during a disaster if your phone stops working? \u003ccite>(Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>You can use social media to make calls …\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If your cellphone service fails, Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs and WhatsApp will allow you to make calls over WiFi, if you’ve enabled that in your settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look for the little phone icon on your apps — but be aware that video calls might require a stronger connection than you’re able to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>… and to let people know you’re OK\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Send a tweet, post an update to Facebook or Instagram (your feed or Story), or use the “status” feature on WhatsApp or Slack to let people know how you’re doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have time and space in the update, include details like your current location and when friends and family can expect to hear from you again, which could allow you to go without cell service or Wi-Fi for a little while, if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Make sure disaster plans include your extended networks — especially for seniors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Make sure that your disaster plans include your extended networks beyond just your immediate family, recommends Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore. That includes \u003cem>not\u003c/em> assuming that the people in your life are as informed (or as tech-savvy) as you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check in with senior relatives in particular, and make sure that they know they might not be able to rely on their internet or phones during a disaster — and help them as much as you can to have a backup plan for communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gore also recommends encouraging people in your life to watch and listen to \u003cem>local\u003c/em> news to get information and updates about issues like wildfires, shutoffs and possible evacuation orders that, say, cable news might not be giving them. Some folks can also assume that the emergency broadcast system will cut into whatever they’re watching with any key updates, which Gore says isn’t necessarily the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if you don’t \u003cem>have\u003c/em> a smartphone in the first place?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you don’t have a smartphone, wireless emergency alerts (such as evacuation orders or Amber Alerts) will still automatically sound on your cellphone — but they rely on your phone having cell service to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These alerts also go to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather radios, which operate on emergency cranks or battery power. NOAA weather radios broadcast official warnings, watches, forecasts and other hazard information consistently. \u003ca href=\"https://www.weatherusa.net/radio\">Find out how to tune into a local weather radio here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/register/\">sign up to get Nixle alerts\u003c/a>, which can come via texts, voice messages and emails — maximizing your chances of being able to receive at least one of these methods. If you have a friend, family member or neighbor who does have a smartphone, set up a system so they can send you important information.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Consider having an out-of-state text contact\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Capt. Erica Arteseros of San Francisco’s Fire Department, who served as program coordinator for the city’s Neighborhood Emergency Response Team, advises you to explicitly identify a person who lives outside California to be your “check-in contact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether it’s a friend or a family member, Arteseros says you should send a text message to that out-of-state person with the time and your location, even if you don’t have wireless service — because that text message \u003cem>will\u003c/em> eventually get to that person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phone calls will fail when cell towers are down for either you or your contact, Arteseros explains. Text messages, however, operate on a relay system between emergency beacons on cell towers. This means a text is more likely to reach someone than a phone call or a voice message.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Make sure you don’t run out of power\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When prepping your \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833686/what-to-pack-in-your-emergency-bag-with-covid-19-in-mind\">emergency “go bag” kit (instructions here)\u003c/a>, make sure you include a cellphone charger (if possible, more than one) and a portable rechargeable cellphone battery, if you have one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Placing your phone in airplane mode — and making sure Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity are also disabled — will help battery life. You can periodically turn your phone on and off to check for signal while also conserving battery life. Turning down your screen’s brightness will also help save your battery, as will putting your device in low power mode (even if your battery still has significant charge).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your phone may end up being a crucial lifeline between you and loved ones, and you want to make sure you can keep using it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"save\">\u003c/a>Finally: Save these reminders to your phone’s camera roll …\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>… so you can view these tips (in English and Spanish) without cellphone coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11840242\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11840243\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-espanol2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-espanol2.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-espanol2-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-espanol2-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-espanol2-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"During a wildfire, your cellphone could lose coverage. So how can you communicate with family and friends?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1722641186,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1678},"headData":{"title":"During a Wildfire, Your Phone Might Stop Working. How Can You Communicate? | KQED","description":"During a wildfire, your cellphone could lose coverage. So how can you communicate with family and friends?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"During a Wildfire, Your Phone Might Stop Working. How Can You Communicate?","datePublished":"2020-09-29T15:02:59-07:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T16:26:26-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11840047/during-a-disaster-your-phone-might-stop-working-how-can-you-communicate","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated June 21, 2024\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a disaster situation like a wildfire or an earthquake, communication between you and those you care about is key. But what if the one device you rely on to communicate — your phone — isn’t working?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cellphone service can be reduced or vanish altogether during emergencies, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/11/california-wildfires-reps-blast-cell-companies-unconscionable-move-to-block-backup-power-rules/\">cell towers go down\u003c/a> amid power shutoffs, or when overhead fiber lines on utility poles are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11622310/fire-victims-frustrated-by-lack-of-wireless-connectivity\">damaged by fire itself\u003c/a>. Service interruptions like these stop people from being able to get in touch with family and friends to confirm their safety, and prevent them from receiving the very emergency alerts they’re relying on for evacuation updates. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834901/fire-evacuation-what-actually-happens-and-how-can-you-plan#2\">If you’re not signed up for emergency alerts, do it right now here.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you’re caught in a disaster situation like a wildfire and your cellphone loses coverage, what can you do? There are a few steps you can take to maintain contact with others, and to keep loved ones updated on your safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Be prepared to lose calls or texts (or both)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The best form of preparation for an emergency situation is being able to adapt, says Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore. You might be able to make a call, but not be able to send or receive texts, or the other way around. Or you might have to completely rely on finding Wi-Fi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because of \u003cem>how\u003c/em> cellphone coverage fails during a disaster like a wildfire. When lines are themselves damaged by fire, calls won’t work, but texts — which place less demand on cell towers — might.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#save\">Save our tip graphic to your phone’s camera roll\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>But if there’s an outage because of a public safety power shutoff, smaller cell towers might not get power from the system’s battery backup, meaning cellphone data clogs up and texts can’t get through. This, Gore says, is what happened to a huge number of Sonoma County residents during the 2017 wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you find yourself in this kind of situation, Gore advises that you just “keep trying.” Confusingly, your phone’s screen might \u003cem>look\u003c/em> like you have good coverage, but cellphone data being overwhelmed will still prevent you from using your phone like usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A road closure sign in Felton during the CZU Lightning Complex fire on Aug. 20, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Know how to find Wi-Fi in an emergency\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Places like large stores (think Walmart) or coffee shops, like Starbucks, might provide Wi-Fi, and you often will be able to pick up the signal outside in the parking lot. Your internet provider might also offer free Wi-Fi hotspots in your region in a disaster situation, something Gore says is becoming more common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise, you can almost certainly find Wi-Fi at one of your county’s temporary evacuation points. It’s worth noting that during the height of the COVID pandemic, counties were frequently focused on providing smaller temporary evacuation points and on offering hotel vouchers to evacuees instead of the usual large shelters with cots you might expect — to maintain social distancing and avoid the risk of virus transmission indoors in big groups — so you might still potentially encounter a smaller evacuation center than you might expect. Nonetheless, as well as offering Wi-Fi, a temporary evacuation point is also “a place to park your car, to take a deep breath and communicate with people, because your mind will be spinning a thousand times a minute,” Gore says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Change your cellphone settings to allow voice calls over Wi-Fi\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When your cellular data isn’t available, you can set your phone to make and receive calls using Wi-Fi, when you have access to it. This is a setting you’ll almost certainly have to enable on your phone — it’s not a default.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to allow voice calls over Wi-Fi:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>On iPhone: Settings > Phone > Wi-Fi Calling.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On Android: Each model may be different, but you’ll still find this somewhere under Settings. On Samsung phones look under Connections, and on Google phones look under Calls.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Note: You might have to actually call your cellphone provider, like Verizon or AT&T, to ask them to activate Wi-Fi calling on your behalf. This is why it’s best to make sure that your phone has this capability in advance, as calling your provider is \u003cem>not\u003c/em> something you’re going to want to have to do during an actual disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Use your voicemail greeting to update friends and family\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Change your voicemail welcome recording when you get cell or Wi-Fi service, and use it to let anyone who calls know your safety status. This means that even when their calls can’t get through to you, your friends and family can hear the information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to change your voicemail message:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>On iPhone: Phone > Voicemail > Greeting.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On Android: Each model may vary, but look for Phone Settings to find the way to change your voicemail message.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840215\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11840215\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How can you communicate during a disaster if your phone stops working? \u003ccite>(Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>You can use social media to make calls …\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If your cellphone service fails, Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs and WhatsApp will allow you to make calls over WiFi, if you’ve enabled that in your settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look for the little phone icon on your apps — but be aware that video calls might require a stronger connection than you’re able to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>… and to let people know you’re OK\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Send a tweet, post an update to Facebook or Instagram (your feed or Story), or use the “status” feature on WhatsApp or Slack to let people know how you’re doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have time and space in the update, include details like your current location and when friends and family can expect to hear from you again, which could allow you to go without cell service or Wi-Fi for a little while, if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Make sure disaster plans include your extended networks — especially for seniors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Make sure that your disaster plans include your extended networks beyond just your immediate family, recommends Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore. That includes \u003cem>not\u003c/em> assuming that the people in your life are as informed (or as tech-savvy) as you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check in with senior relatives in particular, and make sure that they know they might not be able to rely on their internet or phones during a disaster — and help them as much as you can to have a backup plan for communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gore also recommends encouraging people in your life to watch and listen to \u003cem>local\u003c/em> news to get information and updates about issues like wildfires, shutoffs and possible evacuation orders that, say, cable news might not be giving them. Some folks can also assume that the emergency broadcast system will cut into whatever they’re watching with any key updates, which Gore says isn’t necessarily the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if you don’t \u003cem>have\u003c/em> a smartphone in the first place?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you don’t have a smartphone, wireless emergency alerts (such as evacuation orders or Amber Alerts) will still automatically sound on your cellphone — but they rely on your phone having cell service to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These alerts also go to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather radios, which operate on emergency cranks or battery power. NOAA weather radios broadcast official warnings, watches, forecasts and other hazard information consistently. \u003ca href=\"https://www.weatherusa.net/radio\">Find out how to tune into a local weather radio here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/register/\">sign up to get Nixle alerts\u003c/a>, which can come via texts, voice messages and emails — maximizing your chances of being able to receive at least one of these methods. If you have a friend, family member or neighbor who does have a smartphone, set up a system so they can send you important information.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Consider having an out-of-state text contact\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Capt. Erica Arteseros of San Francisco’s Fire Department, who served as program coordinator for the city’s Neighborhood Emergency Response Team, advises you to explicitly identify a person who lives outside California to be your “check-in contact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether it’s a friend or a family member, Arteseros says you should send a text message to that out-of-state person with the time and your location, even if you don’t have wireless service — because that text message \u003cem>will\u003c/em> eventually get to that person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phone calls will fail when cell towers are down for either you or your contact, Arteseros explains. Text messages, however, operate on a relay system between emergency beacons on cell towers. This means a text is more likely to reach someone than a phone call or a voice message.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Make sure you don’t run out of power\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When prepping your \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833686/what-to-pack-in-your-emergency-bag-with-covid-19-in-mind\">emergency “go bag” kit (instructions here)\u003c/a>, make sure you include a cellphone charger (if possible, more than one) and a portable rechargeable cellphone battery, if you have one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Placing your phone in airplane mode — and making sure Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity are also disabled — will help battery life. You can periodically turn your phone on and off to check for signal while also conserving battery life. Turning down your screen’s brightness will also help save your battery, as will putting your device in low power mode (even if your battery still has significant charge).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your phone may end up being a crucial lifeline between you and loved ones, and you want to make sure you can keep using it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"save\">\u003c/a>Finally: Save these reminders to your phone’s camera roll …\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>… so you can view these tips (in English and Spanish) without cellphone coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11840242\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11840243\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-espanol2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-espanol2.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-espanol2-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-espanol2-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-espanol2-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11840047/during-a-disaster-your-phone-might-stop-working-how-can-you-communicate","authors":["3243"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_25411","news_24504","news_27017","news_28600","news_2520","news_27808","news_2081","news_28604","news_21766","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11840135","label":"news"},"news_11787091":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11787091","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11787091","score":null,"sort":[1574033244000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1574033244,"format":"standard","disqusTitle":"Sirens, Texts, Even Church Bells. California Wildfire Alerts and Evacuations Still Ad Hoc","title":"Sirens, Texts, Even Church Bells. California Wildfire Alerts and Evacuations Still Ad Hoc","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>When a fast-moving wildfire marched toward the town of Paradise more than a year ago, few who lived there were aware of it. Even though the community used the \u003ca href=\"https://www.onsolve.com/landing/codered-emergency-notification-solutions/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=CodeRedCampaign&utm_content=CodeRed&utm_term=codered&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIo4u4g9Xq5QIVFbvsCh20ZQylEAAYASAAEgIBPvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CodeRED\u003c/a> automated emergency warning system, less than 40% of residents subscribed to the alerts.\u003cbr>\nOnly 7,000 of the 52,000 residents who eventually evacuated received the emergency alert to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire incinerated cell towers and communications equipment, revealing a vulnerability of the telephone-based disaster alert system. “The only notification systems left were emergency vehicle sirens and bull horns … word-of-mouth with families and neighbors … and immediate action,” the Butte County Grand Jury \u003ca href=\"https://www.buttecourt.ca.gov/GrandJury/reports/2018-2019%20Grand%20Jury%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported\u003c/a> to the Superior Court earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"paradise\" label=\"Paradise: one year later\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unimaginable deaths and the wholesale destruction of a town exposed California’s ad hoc approach to alerting residents to approaching wildfires and providing prompt and accurate information about escape routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Paradise residents begin to understand the menace that was about to engulf them, they found themselves in rush-hour-volume gridlock: Only one of the four roads planners had expected to use for evacuations remained open, the others were burning, the grand jury reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panicked motorists abandoned their cars and fled on foot, attempting to outrun the advancing flames. Of 85 deaths attributed to the fire, ten perished in or near their vehicles. Unable to reach the safety of another town, some residents took shelter in any available structure, the report said; a church, a gas station, a supermarket parking lot, a lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Disaster Warnings Still Piecemeal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Up and down the state, families, businesses and local authorities are learning through hard experience how to protect themselves during fires. They are pre-planning their evacuation routes and establishing their personal get-out threshold for evacuating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies have set up their own emergency response centers, cities have contracted with web-based developers to better understand fire threat, and one small fire department is developing a smartphone app to help residents know when and how to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11786957,science_1942547,news_11622223\" label=\"Fire preparation\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there is no statewide standard for emergency evacuation, no set of uniform, comprehensive plans that can be called upon in emergencies, not just for fire but for floods and earthquakes. Public notification of impending disaster is piecemeal, and much of it depends on working telephone lines and available power, equipment that is often the first casualty of fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials have shown an interest in adopting \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2019/10/california-wildfire-response-plan-new-technology/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">technology\u003c/a> for fire response, particularly for detecting, monitoring, and mapping blazes. California even hosted an international\u003ca href=\"https://firetechsummit.cpuc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> fire innovation summit\u003c/a> last March to fish for new ideas. But the state has yet to roll out many of its initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the policy of utility companies curtailing power in times of high fire danger to prevent sparking blazes presents a new, still unresolved, wrinkle in broadcasting emergency alerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California officials — in the Legislature and at the Office of Emergency Services — say they are working on it, while noting that the state’s role is to provide guidance: it is local authorities that are responsible for immediate emergency response. Following the deadly 2017 fire season, a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB833\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new state law\u003c/a> required local governments to have a mechanism to warn residents during emergencies. The state Office of Emergency Services released \u003ca href=\"http://www.calalerts.org/documents/2019-CA-Alert-Warning-Guidelines.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">general guidelines\u003c/a> earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/714d471c-ebe5-4907-b3de-4d70441b8bce?src=embed\" title=\"wildfire deaths/annual\" width=\"595\" height=\"829\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guidelines advocate a scattershot approach to alerts, suggesting a mix of old-school and cutting-edge: Sirens, loudspeakers, social media, texting, even ringing church bells. The new rules require alerts when there is an “imminent threat to life, health or property” and emphasize that time is critical. Worries about triggering mass panic are not an excuse to avoid or delay issuing a warning, the guidelines say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state consulted with a wide range of experts before publishing the guidelines, and they reflect policies many local authorities already had in place, according to Sam Wallis, a Sonoma County emergency coordinator. He said the county did not adopt any of the state’s new fire alert strategies in response to recent wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The document reflects what we are already doing,” Wallis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'An Awful Lot of Work to be Done'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>California does not require communities to plan for wildfire evacuations, leaving it as a local decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the state’s communities that are at the highest risk of fire, fewer than one in four have an evacuation plan that residents can review, according to an \u003ca href=\"http://www.calalerts.org/documents/2019-CA-Alert-Warning-Guidelines.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investigation\u003c/a> published earlier this year by a media collaboration including The AP, USA TODAY Network-California, McClatchy and Media News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a plan and are unable to communicate to the population at risk in real time, you don’t really have a plan, you have an interesting piece of paper on the shelf,” said Dave Winnaker, chief of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mofd.org/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moraga-Orinda Fire District\u003c/a> in Contra Costa County. “That’s where historically we have missed the mark.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winnaker has been experimenting with harnessing technology, and anything else, to warn residents of impending fire. His department has carefully studied the puzzle of evacuation and is developing an app to help residents safely leave a fire zone. It’s the kind of innovative idea that experts say is needed to respond to the challenge presented by California’s new ferocious\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-worsening-wildfires-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> fire threat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state does not have an amazing track record for fielding technology,” Winnaker said. “The state is going to need some help. There’s an awful lot of work to be done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The private sector is brimming with ideas. There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.intterragroup.com/incident-management/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">companies\u003c/a> that are instantly able to supply detailed weather information and forecasting, real-time traffic and road reports, images from satellites and remote cameras with eyes on an active fire, and census data providing first responders with information about the location of disabled residents and the languages spoken in a particular household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trick is to synthesize layers and layers of information and get it where it’s needed, quickly and accurately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With state policy, we are just at the front end of this conversation,” said Pete Peterson, dean of the Pepperdine School of Public Policy, which operates a web-based emergency\u003ca href=\"https://www.hsacouncil.org/salus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> mapping tool\u003c/a> that has been adopted by the city of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The platform aggregates more than 200 layers of publicly available information — the functioning of the electricity grid and transportation, for example — and collates that onto maps that help authorities and residents make decisions about evacuation. The maps and other data are available online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peterson said that during the recent Tick Fire in L.A. County his research group got a call from officials who were considering evacuating an area where they believed about 50,000 people lived. The computer program ran the census data and discovered the area had about 250,000 residents. That kind of accurate information is vital during urgent evacuations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The communications part of evacuations is not real good,” he said. “Policymakers and government agencies are going to be increasingly accountable for why we don’t have this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Avoiding Cautionary Tales and Lives Lost\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No community wants to join Paradise, or the Sonoma County city of Santa Rosa, as a cautionary tale of lives lost because of chaotic and inadequate communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But missteps can bring about better policy. Misti Wood, the Community Engagement Liaison for the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office, pointed to the difference between community response to the 2017 Tubbs Fire that killed at least 22 people and the recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782314/what-you-need-to-know-sonoma-countys-kincade-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kincade Fire\u003c/a> that burned for two weeks but caused no fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two years ago, people tended to wait for instructions. That’s changed,” Wood said. “Most of us remember what it was like, none of us want to be in that position again. This fire, we had extraordinary compliance. There are always people who stay behind and we will always bang on your door. But most people left.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month’s Kincade Fire afforded authorities more time to warn residents and evacuate 187,000 people over several days, the biggest evacuation in Sonoma County history. Deputies drove through neighborhoods with bullhorns and knocked on doors. Officials also triggered the Nixel system — a subscription service that texts fire alerts. Wood said signups for the service jumped since 2017 and now 66% of the county’s residents use the system.\u003cbr>\n[aside tag=\"wildfires\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medical group Kaiser Permanente didn’t wait for the evacuation orders to begin moving hospital patients when the Kincade Fire started, according to Stephen Parodi, the Associate Executive Director of the Permanente Medical Group at Kaiser Permanente and an infectious disease physician who plans for patient evacuations at several hospitals in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parodi said there was scarcely time to evacuate during the 2017 Santa Rosa fires, which came in with such speed that staff wheeled patients in the streets in gurneys and loaded patients into buses or private cars to move them out of harm’s way. In the chaos of the emergency, dozens of patients were sent to hospitals with no documents or medical records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent fires were different, Parodi said. Working from the company’s own emergency operations center, Kaiser officials monitored weather and fire maps and were in constant communication with local authorities, enabling hospitals to make independent decisions about how best to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the time-consuming triage required to evacuate hundreds of patients, some critically ill, Parodi said he decided to start evacuating at 10:30 p.m., before the facility was under orders to clear out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six hours later, when mandatory evacuation orders were given, the hospital was still only halfway through its process. The standard practice of relocating patients to the nearest sister hospital had been stymied because the two closest facilities had no power and were operating on generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, all patients were safely relocated, Parodi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new reality for Californians is going to be one of more warnings and, very likely, more evacuations. The public will have to adjust to the new safety paradigm, CalFire officials say, and beware evacuation fatigue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire Deputy Director Mike Mohler pointed to the December 2017 Thomas Fire that stalked the coastal city of Montecito. Residents yo-yo’d between orders to evacuate and approval to return home, as the unpredictable fire front shifted with the wind. It became the largest fire in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A month later a deluge of rain placed the community in jeopardy for \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-montecito-debris-basins-20181220-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mudslides\u003c/a>. Weary of false alarms, some homeowners chose to stay put. Nearly two dozen people were killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://CalMatters.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalMatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","disqusIdentifier":"11787091 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11787091","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/17/sirens-texts-even-church-bells-california-wildfire-alerts-and-evacuations-still-ad-hoc/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1819,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":44},"modified":1574107481,"excerpt":"Families, businesses and local authorities must learn through hard experience how to protect themselves during fires as there isn't a statewide standard for emergency evacuation.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Families, businesses and local authorities must learn through hard experience how to protect themselves during fires as there isn't a statewide standard for emergency evacuation.","title":"Sirens, Texts, Even Church Bells. 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California Wildfire Alerts and Evacuations Still Ad Hoc","datePublished":"2019-11-17T15:27:24-08:00","dateModified":"2019-11-18T12:04:41-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sirens-texts-even-church-bells-california-wildfire-alerts-and-evacuations-still-ad-hoc","status":"publish","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/julie-cart/\"> Julie Cart \u003ca />","source":"CALMATTERS","path":"/news/11787091/sirens-texts-even-church-bells-california-wildfire-alerts-and-evacuations-still-ad-hoc","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When a fast-moving wildfire marched toward the town of Paradise more than a year ago, few who lived there were aware of it. Even though the community used the \u003ca href=\"https://www.onsolve.com/landing/codered-emergency-notification-solutions/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=CodeRedCampaign&utm_content=CodeRed&utm_term=codered&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIo4u4g9Xq5QIVFbvsCh20ZQylEAAYASAAEgIBPvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CodeRED\u003c/a> automated emergency warning system, less than 40% of residents subscribed to the alerts.\u003cbr>\nOnly 7,000 of the 52,000 residents who eventually evacuated received the emergency alert to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire incinerated cell towers and communications equipment, revealing a vulnerability of the telephone-based disaster alert system. “The only notification systems left were emergency vehicle sirens and bull horns … word-of-mouth with families and neighbors … and immediate action,” the Butte County Grand Jury \u003ca href=\"https://www.buttecourt.ca.gov/GrandJury/reports/2018-2019%20Grand%20Jury%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported\u003c/a> to the Superior Court earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"paradise","label":"Paradise: one year later "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unimaginable deaths and the wholesale destruction of a town exposed California’s ad hoc approach to alerting residents to approaching wildfires and providing prompt and accurate information about escape routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Paradise residents begin to understand the menace that was about to engulf them, they found themselves in rush-hour-volume gridlock: Only one of the four roads planners had expected to use for evacuations remained open, the others were burning, the grand jury reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panicked motorists abandoned their cars and fled on foot, attempting to outrun the advancing flames. Of 85 deaths attributed to the fire, ten perished in or near their vehicles. Unable to reach the safety of another town, some residents took shelter in any available structure, the report said; a church, a gas station, a supermarket parking lot, a lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Disaster Warnings Still Piecemeal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Up and down the state, families, businesses and local authorities are learning through hard experience how to protect themselves during fires. They are pre-planning their evacuation routes and establishing their personal get-out threshold for evacuating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies have set up their own emergency response centers, cities have contracted with web-based developers to better understand fire threat, and one small fire department is developing a smartphone app to help residents know when and how to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11786957,science_1942547,news_11622223","label":"Fire preparation "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there is no statewide standard for emergency evacuation, no set of uniform, comprehensive plans that can be called upon in emergencies, not just for fire but for floods and earthquakes. Public notification of impending disaster is piecemeal, and much of it depends on working telephone lines and available power, equipment that is often the first casualty of fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials have shown an interest in adopting \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2019/10/california-wildfire-response-plan-new-technology/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">technology\u003c/a> for fire response, particularly for detecting, monitoring, and mapping blazes. California even hosted an international\u003ca href=\"https://firetechsummit.cpuc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> fire innovation summit\u003c/a> last March to fish for new ideas. But the state has yet to roll out many of its initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the policy of utility companies curtailing power in times of high fire danger to prevent sparking blazes presents a new, still unresolved, wrinkle in broadcasting emergency alerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California officials — in the Legislature and at the Office of Emergency Services — say they are working on it, while noting that the state’s role is to provide guidance: it is local authorities that are responsible for immediate emergency response. Following the deadly 2017 fire season, a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB833\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new state law\u003c/a> required local governments to have a mechanism to warn residents during emergencies. The state Office of Emergency Services released \u003ca href=\"http://www.calalerts.org/documents/2019-CA-Alert-Warning-Guidelines.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">general guidelines\u003c/a> earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/714d471c-ebe5-4907-b3de-4d70441b8bce?src=embed\" title=\"wildfire deaths/annual\" width=\"595\" height=\"829\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guidelines advocate a scattershot approach to alerts, suggesting a mix of old-school and cutting-edge: Sirens, loudspeakers, social media, texting, even ringing church bells. The new rules require alerts when there is an “imminent threat to life, health or property” and emphasize that time is critical. Worries about triggering mass panic are not an excuse to avoid or delay issuing a warning, the guidelines say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state consulted with a wide range of experts before publishing the guidelines, and they reflect policies many local authorities already had in place, according to Sam Wallis, a Sonoma County emergency coordinator. He said the county did not adopt any of the state’s new fire alert strategies in response to recent wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The document reflects what we are already doing,” Wallis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'An Awful Lot of Work to be Done'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>California does not require communities to plan for wildfire evacuations, leaving it as a local decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the state’s communities that are at the highest risk of fire, fewer than one in four have an evacuation plan that residents can review, according to an \u003ca href=\"http://www.calalerts.org/documents/2019-CA-Alert-Warning-Guidelines.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investigation\u003c/a> published earlier this year by a media collaboration including The AP, USA TODAY Network-California, McClatchy and Media News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a plan and are unable to communicate to the population at risk in real time, you don’t really have a plan, you have an interesting piece of paper on the shelf,” said Dave Winnaker, chief of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mofd.org/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moraga-Orinda Fire District\u003c/a> in Contra Costa County. “That’s where historically we have missed the mark.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winnaker has been experimenting with harnessing technology, and anything else, to warn residents of impending fire. His department has carefully studied the puzzle of evacuation and is developing an app to help residents safely leave a fire zone. It’s the kind of innovative idea that experts say is needed to respond to the challenge presented by California’s new ferocious\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-worsening-wildfires-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> fire threat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state does not have an amazing track record for fielding technology,” Winnaker said. “The state is going to need some help. There’s an awful lot of work to be done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The private sector is brimming with ideas. There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.intterragroup.com/incident-management/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">companies\u003c/a> that are instantly able to supply detailed weather information and forecasting, real-time traffic and road reports, images from satellites and remote cameras with eyes on an active fire, and census data providing first responders with information about the location of disabled residents and the languages spoken in a particular household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trick is to synthesize layers and layers of information and get it where it’s needed, quickly and accurately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With state policy, we are just at the front end of this conversation,” said Pete Peterson, dean of the Pepperdine School of Public Policy, which operates a web-based emergency\u003ca href=\"https://www.hsacouncil.org/salus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> mapping tool\u003c/a> that has been adopted by the city of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The platform aggregates more than 200 layers of publicly available information — the functioning of the electricity grid and transportation, for example — and collates that onto maps that help authorities and residents make decisions about evacuation. The maps and other data are available online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peterson said that during the recent Tick Fire in L.A. County his research group got a call from officials who were considering evacuating an area where they believed about 50,000 people lived. The computer program ran the census data and discovered the area had about 250,000 residents. That kind of accurate information is vital during urgent evacuations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The communications part of evacuations is not real good,” he said. “Policymakers and government agencies are going to be increasingly accountable for why we don’t have this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Avoiding Cautionary Tales and Lives Lost\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No community wants to join Paradise, or the Sonoma County city of Santa Rosa, as a cautionary tale of lives lost because of chaotic and inadequate communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But missteps can bring about better policy. Misti Wood, the Community Engagement Liaison for the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office, pointed to the difference between community response to the 2017 Tubbs Fire that killed at least 22 people and the recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782314/what-you-need-to-know-sonoma-countys-kincade-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kincade Fire\u003c/a> that burned for two weeks but caused no fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two years ago, people tended to wait for instructions. That’s changed,” Wood said. “Most of us remember what it was like, none of us want to be in that position again. This fire, we had extraordinary compliance. There are always people who stay behind and we will always bang on your door. But most people left.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month’s Kincade Fire afforded authorities more time to warn residents and evacuate 187,000 people over several days, the biggest evacuation in Sonoma County history. Deputies drove through neighborhoods with bullhorns and knocked on doors. Officials also triggered the Nixel system — a subscription service that texts fire alerts. Wood said signups for the service jumped since 2017 and now 66% of the county’s residents use the system.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"wildfires","label":"Related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medical group Kaiser Permanente didn’t wait for the evacuation orders to begin moving hospital patients when the Kincade Fire started, according to Stephen Parodi, the Associate Executive Director of the Permanente Medical Group at Kaiser Permanente and an infectious disease physician who plans for patient evacuations at several hospitals in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parodi said there was scarcely time to evacuate during the 2017 Santa Rosa fires, which came in with such speed that staff wheeled patients in the streets in gurneys and loaded patients into buses or private cars to move them out of harm’s way. In the chaos of the emergency, dozens of patients were sent to hospitals with no documents or medical records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent fires were different, Parodi said. Working from the company’s own emergency operations center, Kaiser officials monitored weather and fire maps and were in constant communication with local authorities, enabling hospitals to make independent decisions about how best to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the time-consuming triage required to evacuate hundreds of patients, some critically ill, Parodi said he decided to start evacuating at 10:30 p.m., before the facility was under orders to clear out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six hours later, when mandatory evacuation orders were given, the hospital was still only halfway through its process. The standard practice of relocating patients to the nearest sister hospital had been stymied because the two closest facilities had no power and were operating on generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, all patients were safely relocated, Parodi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new reality for Californians is going to be one of more warnings and, very likely, more evacuations. The public will have to adjust to the new safety paradigm, CalFire officials say, and beware evacuation fatigue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire Deputy Director Mike Mohler pointed to the December 2017 Thomas Fire that stalked the coastal city of Montecito. Residents yo-yo’d between orders to evacuate and approval to return home, as the unpredictable fire front shifted with the wind. It became the largest fire in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A month later a deluge of rain placed the community in jeopardy for \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-montecito-debris-basins-20181220-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mudslides\u003c/a>. Weary of false alarms, some homeowners chose to stay put. Nearly two dozen people were killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://CalMatters.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalMatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11787091/sirens-texts-even-church-bells-california-wildfire-alerts-and-evacuations-still-ad-hoc","authors":["byline_news_11787091"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_4807","news_24504","news_4463"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11787106","label":"source_news_11787091"},"news_11762655":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11762655","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11762655","score":null,"sort":[1563750026000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"news","term":72},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1563750026,"format":"standard","disqusTitle":"Camp Fire-Ravaged Butte County to Use New Siren to Warn of Evacuations","title":"Camp Fire-Ravaged Butte County to Use New Siren to Warn of Evacuations","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>Butte County is set to unveil a new siren warning aimed at alerting residents to evacuate during emergencies, nearly nine months after 85 people in the county died in the devastating Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The European-style siren has been installed in the county's patrol vehicles, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said in an interview with KQED News. He said his department has developed a policy that calls for using it when deputies don't have the ability to go door to door to warn citizens of an imminent threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will go through neighborhoods sounding that particular siren. That's the only time we will use it. It means there's an evacuation in effect in that area,\" Honea said, adding that the tone is different from emergency sirens normally heard in the United States, which will in theory make it standout in an evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said while having uniformed law enforcement knock on doors is the most effective way to notify people, it's unrealistic during a major disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no jurisdiction that has a sufficient number of resources,\" Honea said, \"especially when you're dealing with a no-notice event like the Camp Fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inability of counties to effectively alert residents of a fast-approaching wildfire was an issue \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711175/butte-county-to-reassess-emergency-alert-system-in-aftermath-of-camp-fire\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">during the Camp Fire\u003c/a> as well as the North Bay Fires in 2017. This fire season, PG&E has begun \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11750896/cpuc-pge-deenergization-wildfire-safety-power-shutoffs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preemptive shutdowns\u003c/a> of power lines during high fire danger, leading some residents to worry about how that could impact evacuation warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710539/its-been-a-blur-butte-county-sheriff-looks-back-on-camp-fire-one-month-later\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">'It's Been a Blur': Butte County Sheriff Looks Back on Camp Fire One Month Later\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710539/its-been-a-blur-butte-county-sheriff-looks-back-on-camp-fire-one-month-later\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Honea2-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11654667/map-where-the-north-bay-fires-burned-and-who-was-called-to-evacuate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MAP: Where the North Bay Fires Burned and Who Was Called to Evacuate\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11654667/map-where-the-north-bay-fires-burned-and-who-was-called-to-evacuate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/MapFeaturedImg.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"For some, a Facebook notice was the only notice they got (during the Camp Fire),\" said Chico resident Susan Sullivan outside of a recent hearing on PG&E's proposed rate increases. \"With power shutoffs, that notice won't be there. There won't be Facebook to get the word out. Phones might not be charged.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sullivan also flagged concerns about whether law enforcement vehicles blaring the new evacuation siren will be able to make it into neighborhoods if a disaster has already brought down trees and power lines, rendering roads impassable. But she said any attempts to improve emergency communications is welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Anything is a help,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Honea hopes the new siren will help maximize his agency's reach during an emergency, noting that it's difficult to ensure universal communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No matter how many platforms you message on, there is no way to ensure 100% saturation of your message,\" Honea said. \"Technology may fail you when the infrastructure goes down. So I think we need to bring a clear understanding of what our capabilities are and manage expectations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honea says the idea to install the European-style siren tones in Butte County vehicles is borrowed from similar initiatives taken by Sonoma and Napa counties following the North Bay Fires in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Malibu is \u003ca href=\"https://www.radiomalibu.net/city-will-call-cell-phones-and-landlines-in-2-weeks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">considering\u003c/a> stationary loudspeaker siren towers so it can broadcast audio messages using renewable power sources that would serve as an alternative in case the primary power infrastructure fails. Malibu was hit by the deadly Woolsey Fire just as the Camp Fire was ravaging Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"11762655 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11762655","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/07/21/camp-fire-ravaged-butte-county-to-use-new-siren-to-warn-of-evacuations/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":567,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":16},"modified":1563813423,"excerpt":"Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea says the siren has been installed in county patrol vehicles and will only be used during evacuations.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea says the siren has been installed in county patrol vehicles and will only be used during evacuations.","title":"Camp Fire-Ravaged Butte County to Use New Siren to Warn of Evacuations | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Camp Fire-Ravaged Butte County to Use New Siren to Warn of Evacuations","datePublished":"2019-07-21T16:00:26-07:00","dateModified":"2019-07-22T09:37:03-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"camp-fire-ravaged-butte-county-to-use-new-siren-to-warn-of-evacuations","status":"publish","path":"/news/11762655/camp-fire-ravaged-butte-county-to-use-new-siren-to-warn-of-evacuations","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Butte County is set to unveil a new siren warning aimed at alerting residents to evacuate during emergencies, nearly nine months after 85 people in the county died in the devastating Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The European-style siren has been installed in the county's patrol vehicles, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said in an interview with KQED News. He said his department has developed a policy that calls for using it when deputies don't have the ability to go door to door to warn citizens of an imminent threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will go through neighborhoods sounding that particular siren. That's the only time we will use it. It means there's an evacuation in effect in that area,\" Honea said, adding that the tone is different from emergency sirens normally heard in the United States, which will in theory make it standout in an evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said while having uniformed law enforcement knock on doors is the most effective way to notify people, it's unrealistic during a major disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no jurisdiction that has a sufficient number of resources,\" Honea said, \"especially when you're dealing with a no-notice event like the Camp Fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inability of counties to effectively alert residents of a fast-approaching wildfire was an issue \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711175/butte-county-to-reassess-emergency-alert-system-in-aftermath-of-camp-fire\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">during the Camp Fire\u003c/a> as well as the North Bay Fires in 2017. This fire season, PG&E has begun \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11750896/cpuc-pge-deenergization-wildfire-safety-power-shutoffs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preemptive shutdowns\u003c/a> of power lines during high fire danger, leading some residents to worry about how that could impact evacuation warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710539/its-been-a-blur-butte-county-sheriff-looks-back-on-camp-fire-one-month-later\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">'It's Been a Blur': Butte County Sheriff Looks Back on Camp Fire One Month Later\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710539/its-been-a-blur-butte-county-sheriff-looks-back-on-camp-fire-one-month-later\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Honea2-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11654667/map-where-the-north-bay-fires-burned-and-who-was-called-to-evacuate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MAP: Where the North Bay Fires Burned and Who Was Called to Evacuate\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11654667/map-where-the-north-bay-fires-burned-and-who-was-called-to-evacuate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/MapFeaturedImg.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"For some, a Facebook notice was the only notice they got (during the Camp Fire),\" said Chico resident Susan Sullivan outside of a recent hearing on PG&E's proposed rate increases. \"With power shutoffs, that notice won't be there. There won't be Facebook to get the word out. Phones might not be charged.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sullivan also flagged concerns about whether law enforcement vehicles blaring the new evacuation siren will be able to make it into neighborhoods if a disaster has already brought down trees and power lines, rendering roads impassable. But she said any attempts to improve emergency communications is welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Anything is a help,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Honea hopes the new siren will help maximize his agency's reach during an emergency, noting that it's difficult to ensure universal communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No matter how many platforms you message on, there is no way to ensure 100% saturation of your message,\" Honea said. \"Technology may fail you when the infrastructure goes down. So I think we need to bring a clear understanding of what our capabilities are and manage expectations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honea says the idea to install the European-style siren tones in Butte County vehicles is borrowed from similar initiatives taken by Sonoma and Napa counties following the North Bay Fires in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Malibu is \u003ca href=\"https://www.radiomalibu.net/city-will-call-cell-phones-and-landlines-in-2-weeks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">considering\u003c/a> stationary loudspeaker siren towers so it can broadcast audio messages using renewable power sources that would serve as an alternative in case the primary power infrastructure fails. Malibu was hit by the deadly Woolsey Fire just as the Camp Fire was ravaging Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11762655/camp-fire-ravaged-butte-county-to-use-new-siren-to-warn-of-evacuations","authors":["11552"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_24483","news_24504","news_19542","news_17041","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11762676","label":"news_72"},"news_11711358":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11711358","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11711358","score":null,"sort":[1544483604000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"emergency-alerts-under-scrutiny","title":"Emergency Alerts Under Scrutiny","publishDate":1544483604,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Emergency Alerts Under Scrutiny | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":18515,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710539/its-been-a-blur-butte-county-sheriff-looks-back-on-camp-fire-one-month-later\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told KQED\u003c/a> that “this fire was outrunning us in terms of our ability to notify people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive in modern California history, Butte County will \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/fiorealertsystem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reassess its emergency alert system\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to last year’s North Bay fires, many people fled the fire because they saw red skies overhead and flames approaching their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After the Camp Fire, Butte County will reassess its emergency alert system. 'This fire was outrunning us in terms of our ability to notify people,' said Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1722638519,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":5,"wordCount":71},"headData":{"title":"Emergency Alerts Under Scrutiny | KQED","description":"After the Camp Fire, Butte County will reassess its emergency alert system. 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