Category: Disaster Preparedness

Cobb Safe 2019
Event Schedule and Program
Saturday, April 13, 2019

10:00-10:15 Registration and Orientation
David Leonard, Cobb Elementary Principal
Eliot Hurwitz, Cobb Area Council Chair
10:15-11:15 Safety and Preparedness Updates
Cal Fire: Mike Wink, Battalion Chief; Bruce Lang, Public Information Officer
Community firebreaks, Bottle Rock Road clearing, LE-100 inspections
County of Lake: Mary Jane Montana, County Fire Marshal
Joint Powers Risk Reduction Authority County Vegetation Abatement Ordinance
Community Preparedness:
 South Lake Fire Safe Council – Louise Pagone, President
 Cobb Firewise:
Cindy Leonard, CAC Secretary
 SSCRA Homeowner Lot-Clearing Grant:
Magdalena Valderrama, SSCRA Director of Programs
 The Future of the Cobb area
Jessica Pyska, CAC Representative
11:15-12:15 Safety and Preparedness Education
Out of the Heat: Ember Awareness, Evacuation 
Cindy Leonard
Insurance and Wildfire
Patrick Lambert, Farmer’s Insurance
Gardening and Landscaping for Beauty and Safety:
 Louise Pagone, UC Master Gardeners
 Scott Parady, Cobb Mountain Art and Ecology Project
12:15-1:30 Lunch with Your Neighbors
Orientation: Cindy Leonard
- Meet your neighbors to start your way to becoming a Firewise Community or renewing your certification
– Determine priority hazards in your area
- Begin to discuss emergency routes and plans
- Identify elderly or handicapped neighbors and how best to alert them in an emergency
1:30-1:45 Raffle Drawing (must be present to claim your prize)
2:00-3:00 Neighborhood Group Reports
3:00 – 4:00 Free distributions, program registrations remain open
 American Red Cross
 Cal Fire
 California Native Plants Society
 Farmer’s Insurance
 FEMA
 Home hardening
 Lake County Amateur Radio Society
 Lake County Resource Conservation District
 Pine Summit Pool (new community refuge area)
 Seigler Springs Community Redevelopment Association
 United Policyholders Association

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Cobb Safe 2018 will be a key community organizing event at which local residents will be able to connect with neighbors to collaborate on making our community safe over the coming year.  This event will be on April 14, 2018, from 10:00 till 4:00 at the Cobb Mountain Elementary School multipurpose room
 
We will hear from CalFire, the South Lake County Fire Protection District, the South Lake County Fire Safe Council and the Lake County Sheriff and we will be organizing our local neighborhoods for mutual aid and assistance in preparing for the upcoming fire season. Find out about the subsidize chipping program and how to organize a FireWise community with help from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).
 
The Cobb Area Council is community-based, community built, answering to the community. When this community advisory council was initially formed by Cobb residents nearly two years ago, one of the highest priorities was to help build resilience in our neighborhoods and to prepare for any future emergencies.  This event on April 14th will be a significant step in improving community members organize and utilize resources to build strong communication, safe neighborhoods, and an emergency plan. Eliot Hurwitz, Chair of the Cobb Area Council, says, “The Cobb Area Council has been working since the Valley Fire to build cooperation among Cobb Area residents. This event is the fruit of much of this effort and will take us to the next level of mutual aid and local self-reliance.”
 
We are grateful for a generous donation from South Lake Refuse to provide lunch for this event.  Thank you to the Seigler Springs Community Redevelopment Association for their support and guidance, as well as the Friends of Cobb Mountain and other anonymous donors.
 
For information about the Fire Wise program at Seigler Springs/Shenandoah neighborhoods, please visit:  firewise@SSCRA.org.

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During 2016, after the wildfire disasters, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office distributed what they called NOAA Weather Radios (NOAA=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). These Midland weather radios provide “all hazards” alerts (aka SAME) and can be invaluable in storm and fire season as they add another important layer of information regarding potential natural disasters. The WR-120EZ model* was given to many Valley Fire survivors and came with an instruction pamphlet, BUT how many of us have programmed ours?
The CAC Communications Sub-Committee has provided the information below to help make it easier to program the NOAA radios you got from the Sheriff’s Department after the wildfires:
First, here’s a quick video tutorial.
Second, below are some recommendations from the Sub-Committee on the settings to use, and why. After changing the button beeps, the sequence is the same as the video.
1.   You may first want to set the default to OFF for the BUTTON BEEPS, because the tones can be more annoying than helpful.
2.  SET CHANNEL:  6    162.525
This is Ukiah/Laughlin Ridge station, the closest and clearest for most if not all of Lake County.(You can scroll to hear other Nor Cal stations; 6 should be strongest.)
3.  SET LOCATION (for 120ez model) either SINGLE>CALIFORNIA>LAKE
or
MULTIPLE>CALIFORNIA>LAKE + MENDOCINO.
(Note: If you have set you Channel to 6, you will not hear the NAPA/SONOMA and YOLO alerts, because these play on San Francisco or Sacramento stations.)
If you have a plain EZ model (not the 120), Lake County is the SAME Code 006033
4.  ALERT TYPE : VOICE
5.  ALERT TEST (don’t select this unless you want to scare yourself!)
6.  SET EVENTS : ALL DEFAULT (includes Fire and weather events)
Then go back and SET EVENTS>EDIT EVENTS>REQUIRED WEEKLY TEST : ON
The weekly frequency is so that you can practice hearing the test alerts. You can always change the frequency to monthly if it gets tedious.
Questions? Email Mel, kk6tmn@gmail.com
*If you want to get the same weather radio, these are available on Amazon.