Sleeping Giant Earthquake Threat Publication

The Wasatch Front in northern Utah is home to the striking Wasatch Range, numerous cities and communities that house about 80% of Utah’s population, and the most continuous, active normal fault in the

conterminous United States––the Wasatch fault zone.  Although no large earthquakes have ruptured the Wasatch fault zone historically, the fault has a well-documented history of numerous surface-faulting earthquakes in the recent geologic past.

Click and download this report compiled in April, 2013 and presented from the Seismology Society of America for some fascinating facts and a look at potential future developments.

S.A.F.E Neighborhoods and the American Red Cross

Salt Lake City in cooperation with The America Red Cross have designated the SLC elementary schools as family reunification centers and a source for public information in the event of a catastrophic disaster.  There is really good training available to those interested in assisting the Red Cross at the neighborhood level with establishing the schools as temporary shelters.  See the flyer below.

Click here for a more printable version:

S.A.F.E Neighborhoods Flyer

Neighborhood Watch Meeting

Neighborhood Watch

Date:           October 24th
Location:     LDS Church Building Gym
                    2205 East Roosevelt Ave
                    Please enter through the northwest door in the small, North West parking lot
Time:          7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Main Topics:

• Neighborhood Watch
• Crime in the Area and East Bench
• Prevention
• What you should do
• Home Security Check List
• Emergency Numbers
• Neighborhood Watch for your block
• How Neighborhood Watch Benefits our Community
• Resources for families and neighborhoods

Coming soon on Facebook: Bonneville Hills Community Council
Bonneville Hills Community Council Web Site    http://bonnevillehills.org/

Meeting Organizers:

                   Ellen Reddick   ellenred@comcast.net     801-581-0369
                   Christy & Carlos Lopez
                   Rebecca Maw

Thanks to the LDS Church for allowing us to use their gym at no cost for our meeting.  Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church also offered but their meeting space is too small.  We are expecting a huge community turnout and hope you will come and support your community Neighborhood Watch program and learn about being proactive in your community.

No one can do Neighborhood Watch but YOU!

Practice Pays: Morgan Stanley and the 911 Terrorist Attacks

The following posting from www.ready.gov about Morgan Stanley's business preparedness was recently shared  in a meeting hosted by Dan and Sharon Draper, Volunteer Emergency Prep Leaders in our area.  It caught my attention.

Morgan Stanley

In 1993, when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center for the first time, financial services company Morgan Stanley learned a life-saving lesson. It took the company 4 hours that day to evacuate its employees, some of whom had to walk down 60 or more flights of stairs to safety. While none of Morgan Stanley's employees were killed in the attack, the company's management decided its disaster plan just wasn't good enough.

Morgan Stanley took a close look at its operation, analyzed the potential disaster risk and developed a multi-faceted disaster plan. Perhaps just as importantly, it practiced the plan frequently to provide for employee safety in the event of another disaster.

On September 11, 2001, the planning and practice paid off. Immediately after the first hijacked plane struck One World Trade Center, Morgan Stanley security executives ordered the company's 3800 employees to evacuate from World Trade Center buildings, Two and Five. This time, it took them just 45 minutes to get out to safety!

The crisis management did not stop at that point, however. Morgan Stanley offered grief counseling to workers and increased its security presence. It also used effective communications strategies to provide timely, appropriate information to management and employees, investors and clients, and regulators and the media.

Morgan Stanley still lost 13 people on September 11th, but many more could have died if the company had not had a solid disaster plan that was practiced over and over again. In making a commitment to prepare its most valuable asset, its people, Morgan Stanley ensured the firm's future.

The next day, I received and email from Ellen Reddick of the Bonneville Hills Community Council with a link to a video documentary of the same event.  Click on the YouTube video below, or the link underneath for the original posting from fulldocumentary.net.

Rick Rescorla 9/11 evacuation hero

Lowe’s Public Safety Fair

By Bob Mims | The Salt Lake Tribune

The Salt Lake City Fire Department and other agencies are taking their message of preparedness and safety on the road this weekend.

Specifically, SLCFD representatives and gear will be at the Lowe’s Home Improvement store for a safety fair on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., 1335 S. 300 West.

The fair comes in advance of the Oct. 6-12 National Fire Prevention Week.

At Lowe’s, firefighters will be demonstrating techniques and equipment used to extricate victims from car accident scenes, and also rappelling from the top of an extended ladder truck.

SLCFD’s arson dog, Daz, will also provide a demonstration of her accelerant-smelling skills, and paramedics will provide CPR demonstrations.

Other agencies offering demonstrations at the fair include the Salt Lake City Police Department and Utah Highway Patrol.

Follow this link to the article:

Public safety fair set for 

Salt Lake City Lowe’s store

Preparedness Fair at the Natural History Museum of Utah

Preparedness Fair

Friday, September 27, 2013 - 11:00am to 3:00pm
Saturday, September 28, 2013 - 11:00am to 3:00pm
Natural History Museum of Utah -- The Canyon

Click here to visit the website:  Natural History Museum of Utah

Do you have a plan? The emergency supplies? The basic training you and your family would need in case of a disaster? 

• Get face-to-grille with disaster recovery equipment - a wheel loader and a portable generator - from Wheeler Machinery.
• Learn how first resonders train in disaster medicine and see tools they use, like a computerized patient simulator, with the Intermountain Center for Disaster Preparedness. 
• See a Rocky Mountain Power line truck used to restore power after a diaster and meet Slim, the Lineman, Rocky Mountain Power's mascot, Friday only. Take part in a demonstration of the hazards of fallen power lines both days of the Fair.

• Explore a firetruck and learn about fire safety SLC Fire Department, Friday only, between 1pm -3pm.
• Practice turning off your gas with Questar Gas and learn the right and wrong time to turn off the gas to protect your home.
• Learn about the hazards of unreinforced masonry and find out how the buildings in your neighborhood are likely to withstand an earthquake. Salt Lake City Emergency Management will be on hand with building inspectors and structural engineers to answer your questions.
• Check out avalanche safety equipment and learn how to prepare a winter back-country excursion with Friends of the Utah Avalanche Center.  Find out how you can have fun in the mountains and avoid avalanches at a Know Before you Go presentation on Saturday only at 1 pm.
• Ask scientists from the University of Utah Seismograph Station your questions about Utah’s earthquake hazards.
• Preview KUED's Preparing for Disaster: Starting Now, a film Deseret News calls "required viewing for all Utahns." Win a copy in KUED's raffles throughout the day! 
• Discover how the Bingham Canyon Mine landslide unfolded and learn how preparedness allowed Rio Tinto to prevent loss of life. Try on safety gear and visit the photo booth for a lasting memory!
• Get started on your water storage plan with the help of Disaster Discovery Center.
• See how solid ground turns into quicksand with NHMU's liquefaction demo. Simulate different seismic waves with a slinky and find out how they impact buildings.
• Create your own structure, test its performance in a quake and improve your design with the Museum's shake table activity.

You never know when disaster will strike. Don't miss this opportunity to gather resources and information from our other partners including American Red Cross, University of Utah Emergency Management, Emergency Essentials, and Be Ready Utah. In case of the worst, you'll be ready. 

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Preparedness Fair is a Free Event!

On Friday, additional parking with a shuttle to the Museum will be available at the ARUP lot on Arapeen Way. Signage from the Museum will direct visitors to the overflow lot

Entrance to the Museum's galleries and Nature Unleashed exhibition requires admission.
 

Thank you, everyone!

Thank you to all who participated in our 2013 neighborhood emergency preparedness exercise.

We wish to thank all neighbors who participated in the exercise by posting their flyer and downloaded their household packets, posting the OK sign in their window.  Don't forget to complete the information in the packet and place it either attached to the fridge, on the inside of a front hallway coat closet, or next to the front window in case emergency responders would ever need to use it.

We wish to thank all the block captains that worked hard to make sure the flyers were delivered to every home in the neighborhood the week of the drill;  and thank them for counting the flyers displayed on Saturday morning.  Thank you for reporting this information into the area command centers, either by FRS/GMRS radio, or by hand delivery.  Without your efforts, we wouldn't have an exercise.  We are so much more prepared because of you.

We wish to thank the area leaders, CERT participants and neighborhood leaders involved in the 6 command centers established for the exercise.  In speaking with some of you, discussions on preparedness were held and items of action were taken away for continued review.  Thank you so much for participating as a group and know that small and simple steps bring about great results.  Thank you for supporting you block captains and delivering the reporting results to area command.

We wish to thank the amateur radio operators who volunteered their time and skills in communication to create the links from the smaller command centers to area command via ham radio.  Thank you for skills in providing clear communications and for your readiness to support any location necessary.

And a big thank you to the area emergency prep committee for your time developing the packets, flyers, maps and more, that made this exercise a success.  Thank you for volunteering your hours of time and energy to help prepare the area.  Thank your families for sharing you with us.

Continue to watch this blog for more articles pertaining to emergency preparedness and look forward to next year's exercise.