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Two Days ‘Til We Shake
October 15 is the Great Shakeout, the annual festival of earthquake awareness, upon which we drop to the ground, cover (or, preferably take cover), and hold on until the shaking stops.
Prepare in a Year 26: Map Your Neighborhood
At the foundation of our Community’s emergency readiness are two fundamentals: prepared households and prepared neighborhoods.
Medium-Sized Earthquake Makes Wakeup Call
Yesterday, September 29, at 2:05 p.m., a 4.2-magnitude earthquake rattled some windows and put some nerves on edge. The adorable earthquake caused no damage, but it wasn’t exactly tiny, and it was close.
Day of Preparedness Makes a Big Splash
Our eleventh annual Day of Preparedness saw more than 200 people visiting Fire Station 21 to learn about emergency preparedness and watch four key figures getting dunked in a very chilly dunk tank.
BP Pop Quiz: Do You Know How to Prepare for an Earthquake?
Earthquake! As we learn how to adapt to new and more frequent, severe weather conditions, we have to expect more potential disasters.
Want to Get a Peek Inside a Disaster Hub?
Bainbridge Prepares in inviting you to visit our upcoming Disaster Hubs Open House at Bethany Lutheran Church. This is your opportunity to ask question of BP volunteers, learn how to prepare, and find out what services a Disaster Hub will offer after a major incident, like a significant earthquake.
BP Has a Busy Saturday
Bainbridge Prepares volunteers played three home games on Saturday May 9: They supported the Fire extinguisher event at the Winslow Wharf Marina, spoke to community members about emergency preparedness at the Farmers’ Market, and provided key support at the Trillium Run.
5 Basic Readiness Tasks to Do Today
Here are the five best things you can do today to protect your family.
This Season, Reach out to Your Neighbors
The two most important things you can do to prepare for emergencies are to ready your household and connect with your neighbors.
Learn All About Map Your Neighborhood at the Library
On Bainbridge Island, we use the Map Your Neighborhood (MYN) Program to help neighborhoods organize and prepare for disasters. To date, more than 54 percent of households on Bainbridge have gone through the program. If your neighborhood is one of the other 46 percent, you need to get connected.
Prepare in a Year 2025: Neighborhood and Community
Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year.
The task for December is to work on increasing the resilience of your neighborhood and community.
Are You Ready to Rumble?
Tomorrow, October 16, is the Great Shakeout, that one day every year on which we have the opportunity to share communitywide the experience of practicing for the biggest disaster we are likely to face here in the Pacific Northwest: The Big Earthquake.
Prepare in a Year 2025: Get 3 Weeks Ready at Home
Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year.
Help Us Help You: Donate, Volunteer, Sign up for Our Fundraiser
Ann Cook is one of the Team Leads of our Map Your Neighborhood team. Listen to her talk about how important BP and its efforts are:
Is Pickleball the Key to Emergency Prep on Bainbridge?
Bainbridge Island takes its pickleball quite seriously. Ever since the game invention right here in 1965 by Joel Pritchard, Bill Bell, and Barney McCallum, islanders have devoted time, energy, and intense emotion to the sport. Maybe that is why pickleball lends itself perfectly to emergency preparedness.
