Can Emergency Responders find your home when every second counts?
Donate and receive a Fire Code-compliant, reflective address sign and help first responders help you.
- $20, pick up in Ukiah: https://firesafemendocino.org/product/reflective-signs/
- $30, pick up in Willits: https://www.sherwoodfirewise.org/cal-fire-approved-address-sign-order-form/
General Preparedness:
Covelo/Mendocino County:
- Sign up for Nixle by texting your zip code to 888777
- Sign up for MendoAlert
- Stay up-to-date on wildfires when it matters most. Download the Watch Duty App. https://www.watchduty.org
- Know your Evacuation Zone for Home, Work, and School
- Incident Viewer (our Zipcode is 95428)
- Covelo Air Quality
- PSPS: Public Safety Power Shutoffs
- Disaster Brochure
- CAL FIRE offers an ability to sign up to receive current information on area fires. You can create a wildfire readiness plan on the CAL FIRE website.
- ALERT Wildfire provides fire cameras and tools to help firefighters and first responders. Look up its website’s many cameras throughout the North Bay and North Coast area.
Power Outages
To sign up for notifications about planned power outages, scheduled repairs, or other issues in your area, visit PG&E’s alerts page. See your provider’s website if you don’t receive power from PG&E. Typically, it will explain how you can sign up for timely alerts.
Earthquakes
ShakeAlert is an earthquake detection and alert system developed by the U.S. Geological Survey. It sends alerts when the first signs of a significant earthquake are detected. Smartphones in California running Google’s Android operating system have the built-in ability to receive ShakeAlert notifications.
Apps for Apple and Android smartphones that will display ShakeAlert messages in California include MyShake from UC Berkeley and QuakeAlert USA from Early Warning Labs.
