In November, I recommended that the County look into creating a public notification or reverse-911 system that would alert residents in the case of an emergency.
This year's first winter storm is expected to hit the Bay Area beginning tonight, when strong gusts of wind and heavy rainfall will likely pour in from the Pacific Ocean. ...
During the Dec. 4 Board of Supervisors meeting, my fellow supervisors supported my request for County staff to draft an ordinance that would allow County fire officials to make sure residents keep "defensible spaces" around their homes to slow fires from sweeping through the open areas of the County. ...
While watching news footage of the recent San Diego fires, I remembered the 1985 Lexington fire in Santa Clara Valley and the 1991 Oakland Hills fire. I wondered if a disaster of equal magnitude could happen here. ...
The Board of Supervisors approved my recommendation Nov. 6 to direct county staff to investigate installing a reverse-911 system that would alert residents in the case of an emergency. ...
On this day two years ago, a drenched and battered New Orleans was still reeling from the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, one of the most destructive natural disasters ever to hit the United States. As the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tried to repair broken flood walls and levees, the city braced for Hurricane Rita, another powerful storm poised to make landfall. ...
YOU
ARE HERE › Supervisor Ken Yeager - District 4 (BOS)
›
Articles
›
Emergency Preparedness
Back to Top 
