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A working smoke alarm can cut the risk of death from a home fire in half. The Red Cross Home Fire Campaign aims to reduce death and injury by installing free smoke alarms in homes that need them. If you are in Oregon or in Southwest Washington, you can contact the Red Cross Cascadia Region to schedule an appointment online. To learn about Red Cross services in other states, please contact your local chapter.
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Check out the World Forestry Center informative event! Be Wildfire Aware is a free, two-day event designed to help families and individuals of all backgrounds learn practical strategies for wildfire preparedness. June 7 & 8, 10 am - 4 pm each day. The event will feature local organizations, interactive workshops, a burn table demonstration, and more!  Visit our booth at the Beaverton Volunteer Fair on Sat, June 7th (10 AM - 1 PM) at the Beaverton Library 12375 SW Fifth Street, Beaverton, OR.  FREE Event: April 27, 2025. 10:30 AM - 1 PM. Fourth Annual Earth Care and Resiliency Fair. Climate change has resulted in increasingly dangerous natural disasters, including: extreme storms, winds, droughts and fires. Join us at the Fourth Annual Earth Care & Resiliency Fair at St Andrew Lutheran Church (12405 SW Butner Rd, Beaverton OR). You'll learn about what you can do to help care for the Earth and prepare yourself for disasters. Click here for the flier.  Click to open flier SAVE THE DATE: April 14, 2025. 11:30-1 PM, Free Presentation. Corrine Haning, Public Affairs Officer for Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue will talk about "Lessons Learned from the California fires" at the Washington County Public Affairs Forum meeting on April 14th. Neighbors Ready! will share what you can do to get prepared. Join us at The Old Spaghetti Factory, 10425 NE Tanasbourne Drive, Hillsboro, OR. Doors open at 11:30 AM. No registration required. Its free and everyone is welcome.   Cliick to go to the registration page. Free training! Series: Older Adult Communities Prepared for Disaster, April 23rd & May 21st, 2025. Register here! Please join the Oregon Department of Emergency Management (OEM), in partnership with the Oregon Advocacy Commissions Office, AARP, Oregon Association of Area Agencies on Aging and Disabilities, and the Oregon State University Extension Service for a two-part virtual educational series on how to help older adults prepare for the disasters we face every year in Oregon such as ice storms, wildfires, and extreme heat. This series is intended for organizations, community groups, faith-based organizations serving older adults, emergency management professionals, and anyone else interested in this topic.
Older adults face unique challenges preparing for and in the aftermath of natural disasters. This population can be among the hardest hit by fires, floods, winter storms, heat events, and extended power outages. Learn the many reasons older adults are at a particular disadvantage during disasters and how to help them and their families think through and prepare for a variety of scenarios. Presented by Lauren Kraemer, MPH, Associate Professor of Practice in the College of Health with the Oregon State University Extension Service, in collaboration with Oregon Care Partners. Register here!
Free training! Disaster Preparedness for Older Adults & their Caregivers, Feb 25, 2025. 7:00-8:30 PM (Zoom). Presented by Lauren Kraemer, MPH, Associate Professor of Practice in the College of Health with the Oregon State University Extension Service, in collaboration with Oregon Care Partners. Older adults face unique challenges preparing for and in the aftermath of natural disasters. This population can be among the hardest hit by fires, floods, winter storms, heat events, and extended power outages. Learn the many reasons older adults are at a particular disadvantage during disasters and how to help them and their families think through and prepare for a variety of scenarios. Register here!
In the February CPO 1 & 7 meeting, CPO 1 is partnering with CPO 7 for a program focusing on Emergency Preparedness. Fires, floods, earthquakes, ice storms, and other emergencies happen in all communities. Being prepared can make a huge difference in your comfort and resiliency after a ‘surprise event’ of this kind occurs.
Nancy Flores-Sanchez, Senior Program Communication and Education Specialist with Washington County, will provide emergency management and public health information along with concrete suggestions for what to do before, during and after an emergency. Details:
Free Training Opportunity! Beaverton Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), Feb 13 - April 19, 2025. CERT, a FEMA-based program, trains people to respond safely to emergencies on the family, neighborhood, and community levels and can assist when first responders are unavailable. If you are 18 or older and live or work inside the Beaverton school district boundaries, learn more and register now for a free CERT Basic Training course that starts on Feb 13. If you live outside the Beaverton Oregon area, find your local CERT team on the FEMA website.
 If you live in the City of Portland and you want to organize your neighborhood, you can get support from Portland's Neighborhood Emergency Team (NET). Your group of 10 or more people may request a Neighborhood Emergency Team (NET) volunteer to present simple, inexpensive ways to prepare for emergencies ranging from severe weather to a major earthquake. These are virtual or in-person, and last for 75 minutes. Fill out a PBEM Presentation Request form.
Neighbors Ready! volunteers participated in the Tualatin Emergency Preparedness Fair on Sept 7th, 2024, an event sponsored by the Tualatin Emergency Preparedness Team. Our volunteers answered questions about water resiliency, emergency water supplies, and water purification.
 Look for the Neighbors Ready! canopy at THPRD's Free Concert on Thurs, July 25th, 6 - 8 PM at Commonwealth Lake, SW Foothill Drive and Dellwood Avenue. This FREE concert will feature Never Come Down! Weaving together modern and traditional styles of bluegrass and americana music, Never Come Down is a Portland, Oregon band. Bring family & friends to enjoy a night of music along with kid’s activities. Low-profile lawn chairs or blankets for seating are encouraged.
What will you learn? Our scout guides will lead us through these skills: tenting; cooking with non-electric heat; cleanup with limited water; basic first aid; basic sanitation & waste management; and water collection, filtration, and purification, and more. You'll enjoy preparing outdoor meals together, including dinner and--for overnight campers--breakfast on Sunday. Who can come? We welcome adults and accompanied-minors, 6th grade and older, with a parent or legal guardian at the event. Enrollment is limited to 40 people to keep groups small for a personalized experience. Our $15 tickets cover materials and insurance costs; we also welcome donations. Scholarships are available; send us an email with your request at [email protected]. How do I register?
Don't miss out on this amazing learning opportunity! Pack your go bag and camping gear and get ready for an unforgettable adventure with your community. Space is limited, so sign up early! Register at: https://tinyurl.com/quakeup071324
Where to go and how to get there This event is free to the public and is hosted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) at 5175 SW 209th Ave in Aloha. Please note that construction is blocking the junction of 209th and TV Highway. Suggested routes include:
AuthorThe information for this announcement was provided by Hal Lillywhite, a member of the Emergency Fair organizing committee and a volunteer with the Medical Reserve Corps. This is the fifth in our blog series about recipes that you can easily prepare without power. Scroll down to the bottom of this blog for links to the other blogs in this series. Pantry Soup Warmed by Tea Candles Today we’re going back to the pantry, and back to the tealight stove (mentioned in Day 2). After four days of power outage, you may have some canned soup in your pantry that you could warm up. But for now, let’s find a way to “soup up” some cans of single veggies.
On Thursday, May 30th, Neighbors Ready! board members Cate Arnold, Karen Ronning-Hall, and Bill Hall joined Congresswoman Bonamici and many dedicated local leaders and community partners to celebrate $946,956 in funding that Bonamici helped to secure for Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District (THPRD). THPRD will use the investment to improve emergency preparedness across its facilities and increase the community’s climate resilience. With more intense and frequent extreme weather caused by the climate crisis, it’s important to have safe spaces where people can go in the event of extreme heat, wildfire smoke, or any other emergency. Thank you, Congresswoman Bonamici  Visit our booth at the Beaverton Volunteer Fair on June 8th (10 AM - 1 PM) at the Beaverton Library 12375 SW Fifth Street, Beaverton, OR. 
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