Hey, good afternoon. Rob Giordano, Sonoma County Sheriff here today with a video
update message for you. Let me first say I appreciate all of you
watching these videos. We're really trying to keep in touch with you and
keep you up to date on what's going on. So really it takes your willingness to
watch so we can keep communicating with each other. Today I want to talk about
fires. There are fires all over the state right now. I'm sure everybody's aware of
that. It's - fire season just started. The fires started burning way before
fire season this year. Um, my message to you is that it's very dry out. This is a bad
fire season. Lots of fuel, lots of dry fuel, so a lot of dry grass a lot of dry
trees. Uh, we want to work with the fire agencies to help keep you safe. That's
what this is about. So I'm going to talk a little bit about fire safety today.
Um,most important thing is empower yourself, and really what I mean is we need you
to stay informed with how to fix the problems because we gotta all work
together like we learned in the fire last year. So let's talk about alerts
first. WEA alerts - wireless emergency alert. It's a - it's a way for us and
public safety to force a message over your cell phone to tell you of an
emergency. The problem is the technology's not all
there yet. It's not a hundred percent. We've been testing it and it's been
working, but not as well as we'd like it to. We will use it under the right
circumstances, but I don't want you just to rely on it. So what comes up next is
things like Nixle and SoCo Alert, which I think a lot of you are familiar with, but
I want to just remind those of you aren't and those of you have seen it, please
sign up for Nixle. Nixle.com is the site we use to send out all kinds of
information. Lots of government agencies are using it now. One of the complaints
we get is sometimes people get messages they don't want. Well, my message to you
is you can go to Nixle.com, set up an account, and control what messages you
get, what messages you don't get. SoCo Alert is what Sonoma County uses for
emergency alerts only. Very important you sign up for that as well. You're only
going to get that alert in an emergency, but you have to go sign up. You have to
put your address in, you have to put your cell phone number in, put your home phone
number in. You have to tell it how to contact you. Those three things are
really important, that you understand that, and that you reach out and and make
it possible to - make it possible for us to contact you at any one of those ways
because we'll put alerts all those ways. The other big thing is talk to your
neighbors. Um, sign them up if they're not signed up. We gotta spread
the word. When the fires started last year, we only had 30,000 people in the Sonoma
County alert system and they're supposed to - there's 500,000 people in this county.
We really want to get everybody on there for their own good.
It's all about being prepared. Along the lines of being prepared, I want you to
pack a go bag in case you actually do have to evacuate. Uh, there's a list of items
to put in that bag at www.readyforwildfire.org.
By the way, Nixle, SoCo, everything I'm giving you today, there's gonna be links
in this post. So please you can go back and look at the narrative of the post, see the
links to the places that I'm mentioning, and go to those sites and log in and
we'll have information on the post for you. Uh, know your neighbors and know their
special needs. You know, one of the things that saved a lot of lives last year in
the fire was neighbors helping neighbors. People that knew their neighbor wasn't
as ambulatory and went to help them out and that was really a big deal. So know
your neighbors, know how to help them. Have a household communication plan. Know -
have a way for your family to reach each other if there's ever an evacuation and
we lose cell power again. We have to find a way to communicate so we can know
everybody's safe, another big part of the puzzle.
The other thing that happened to
us in the last, last fires was garage door openers. Um, not all garage door
openers have battery backups, and not everybody understood how to open their
garage door with the release. So we're gonna put out a video in the near future
talking about this, but right now what I want to tell you is there is a way to
pull a lever on the top of your garage door that will release the opener from
the garage and you can open it manually. Learn how to do that, make sure everybody
in your household who might have to do it can do it, especially the most
vulnerable. If not, get a battery backup. Understand how that works as well. That
was a problem in the fires for us and I want you to be safe out there.
The other big thing? Know your escape routes. And what I really mean is, know more
than one way out of your neighborhood. We get in the habit of going in and out of
our neighborhood one way and maybe in and out of our office one way. Learn
other ways in and around your neighborhood and - in uh - at home - and in and
around your business. Really important in case there's a road closure on this side
because of fire. I want you to have another way out, so learn those other
areas. I'm gonna talk about red flag warnings for a minute. Red flag warnings
are put out by the National Weather Service. Um,
it's a fire risk time when it's dry, heavy fuels, high winds, it's what our
fire storm occurred during, a red flag warning. Very important time. Something
that I really want to impress upon you is that 95% of fires are started by us,
people. Accidental a lot of the time, usually by lawn mowers, other ignition
sources, chains dragging on your trailer. So the message is when you see the red
flag warnings, and even on the hot days, don't mow lawns, don't mow lawns in the
afternoon. Early in the morning when it's damp and there's a lot of humidity. Watch
for chains. Chains on trailers have started a couple fires this year. We
don't want any more of that. Watch the chains, so you want to eliminate
ignition sources when it's a bad fire season. Very important piece of the
puzzle. No outdoor fires. No barbecues on windy, hot days. I'm sorry, I'm not trying
to wreck the barbecue, but fire is more important. Again, back to what I started
with: empower yourself, stay informed. Keep up-to-date with the Sheriff's Office
social media, CalFIRE social media, and the National Weather Service out of
Monterey. That's our region. You take charge. Pay attention to what's going on.
Help your neighbors. Help us keep everybody in the community safe.
There's a lot of information for this at www.readyforwildfire.org.
Please share this video. We want the message out. We're gonna keep people safe
and keep fires away from here. Follow Sonoma Sheriff on Facebook,Twitter, and
Instagram. And the Sheriff's Office is always here to make you safe. So thanks
for following us, thanks for paying attention, and thanks for sharing this
with everybody.
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