Hi Tom,
I have another idea. Please see the attached The Daily Journal (March 23, 2023) article on the City of Burlingames Neighbors Helping Neighbors group. First, the article does a lovely job of showcasing the value of such a group. MPC Ready, rEPAct and ADAPT are similar in aims as the Neighbors Helping Neighbors group. The Burlingame group, I believe, was originally started by a former Burlingame Council Member. The article included notice of a community meeting: Lessons Learned from the Storm: Preparing for the Next Time. The Burlingame meeting conflicts with tomorrows MPC Ready community meeting or I would register and attend. If anyone reading this decides to go, I would love to know your thoughts later as to how this might work in our area. I view the community meeting idea as a way to bring the "whole community" together in more of a collaborative partnership and next steps approach.
Yesterday, I sent the article to Stephen Stolte, Menlo Park Assistant City Manager, with my comments on Burlingames community meeting idea. I was going to wait to hear back from him before doing more with the idea/article. I let him know that MPC Ready volunteers would be pleased to work with the government to help put on such a meeting.
At your earliest convenience, would you please add the source for your Emergency, Disaster and Catastrophe chart? I originally found that chart in Kathleen Tierneys book, "Disasters: A Sociological Approach (page 5). Tierney is the retired Director of the University of Colorado, Boulder, Natural Hazards Center. .
Lynne Bramlett
Organizing Member & President, MPC Ready
https://mpcready.org/
650-380-3028
On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 1:56 PM Tom Prussing > wrote:
Good Afternoon Menlo Park and MPFPD Officials,
Attached is A Menlo Park Storms After Action Report
(AAR) for the three recent storm events that affected
Menlo Park.
I have been a resident of Menlo Park since 1977.
I have a 41-year experience in preparing AARs at
Stanford University in Facilities Engineering and a
25-year experience in disaster response with Menlo
Park, Stanford, MPFPD and Atherton.
If I were a city official, police or fire official, or public
works official I would use this document to better
prepare for the next city-wide emergency or disaster.
Real, unvarnished data will give you the ability to
respond on our behalf in a most timely and effective
manner going forward. I will always passionately
encourage you to use our Menlo Park citizens as
as able-bodied resource after they have been
trained to support you.
This AAR not address an additional effects of an
earthquake incident that would include damage
buildings, injuries with no city resources, police,
fire and EMT response for three to seven days.
This intense energy and vocal expression of the
East Palo Alto and Belle Haven residents during
the PG&E response review meeting should be
a clarion call to a city response review, better
preparedness, best practices and an actionable
operational plan going forward.
Emergency preparedness and response is the
foundation upon which all city activity extends
in times of normal operation.
Other pertinent emergency preparedness and
response documents are also attached.
Respectfully, Tom.
