Presented by the Food Resilience Team : A non-emergent emergency food tasting event with wine pairings, games, and demos.

Effective disaster response requires good planning, which comes from effective leadership. Your household leaders need to create communication plans, supply plans, transportation plans, and meet-up plans.

On the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Bainbridge Island Fire Department is hosting a remembrance ceremony in partnership with American Legion Colin Hyde Post 172 and the Bainbridge Island Police Department.

Bainbridge Prepares is finally old enough to get a learner’s permit. (Don’t tell anyone, but we’ve been driving change for a while now already.) Our 15th birthday is just an occasion to celebrate everything we’ve accomplished.

The Bainbridge Island Fire Department conducted a burn at the Bloedel Reserve on August 17. The Bainbridge Prepares TechOps Drone Team was there to support the operation.

A critical task, immediately after an earthquake, is to establish some form of communication. This is demonstrated well in This Is Chance!, a book written by islander Jon Mooallem about the 1965 Great Alaskan Earthquake. You might recognize this book as one of our community book reads.

You’re invited! Join us at our second Disaster Open House of the year, this time at Hyla. If you missed the last one (at Bethany Lutheran), if Hyla is your Hub, or if you’re just curious about how this Hub compares, stop by with your questions.

With 13 large wildfires currently burning in Washington State and more fires in British Columbia, Idaho, and Oregon, our air quality is, of course, being affected. In Washington State alone we’ve had 1,132 wildfires to date this year, burning 541,791 acres and sending our Air Quality Index (AQI) up into undesirable categories.

Rainwater catchment is great for both watering your food garden and maintaining an emergency water supply. Join us on our upcoming tour of a catchment system.

Meeting places are where we gather to exchange information, gather resources, and make a plan. In some situations, they’ll be where we go to get first aid.

On July 12, Bainbridge Prepares volunteers joined more than 2,500 others to donate their skills for the Rotary Club’s 66th Annual Auction and Rummage Sale. That sale broke all previous earnings records, raising $1,021,366.

It was a scenario no one likes to think about. A small airplane with nearly a dozen passengers aboard crashed into the Strait of Georgia during a thunderstorm and then burst into flames.

Although we had a dump of rain last week—0.60 inches—fire danger still lurks here and in neighboring communities. We’re four inches short of our average rainfall to date: 21.60 inches. Three major fires continue to burn in western Washington.

A disaster almost always means a power outage as well. How will you power the essentials when the lights go out?

The idea was for people to visit a Disaster Hub and talk to the people who know how to prepare: Bainbridge Prepares staff and volunteers. And that’s what happened. More than 120 visitors passed through the Bethany Lutheran Open House between 2 and 4 pm on June 7.

Want to grow food successfully and beautifully? Cynthia Carpenter, whose eye-catching garden you may have seen from north Highway 305, is one of the experts at Bay Hay, so she has knowledge to share. Our June Tour will give us a close-up look.

June 3 more than 70 BP volunteers gathered in the meeting space at the Bainbridge Island Rowing Boathouse to learn about the State of the Bainbridge Prepares Partnership.

Register here for Sunday’s (June 7) Disaster Hub Open House at Bethany Lutheran.

Twenty-three of Bainbridge Prepares’ Wilderness First Responders (Woofers) spent the entire weekend, May 30–31, in a 22-hour crash course at BIFD Station 21 to renew their WFR credentials.

Ensure that, during a disaster, you and your family will keep safe from secondary emergencies such as fires, broken glass on the floor, falling objects, and downed wires.