We Had a Day
It was a Day of Preparedness—and it worked.
Last Saturday, September 20, between 10 and 1, more than 300 people stopped by Fire Station 21 to learn how to take the next steps to prepare their households for emergencies. Bainbridge Prepares volunteers had set up information tables in the temporarily empty Fire Station truck bays.
Visitors had many questions, eager to find out the following:
How to power their appliances during a power outage
How to ready their neighborhoods
What food to store
How to treat water
Where their Disaster Hub is located
What communication devices to invest in
About PSE’s wildfire program
How to prepare their pets for emergencies
How to make their properties Firewise
What to pack in a go bag
Whether they need to worry about tsunamis where they live
How to get those blue signs with reflective street numbers
What to do if an emergency happened while their kids were at school
How to shoot off a fire extinguisher properly
Their evacuation zone
People bought Bainbridge Prepares (Bay Hay–style) Ts and sweatshirts. Some wanted to get their names entered to win a door prize, like a Jackery generator. And quite a few folks wanted to gather up the free emergency supplies and handouts given away at each booth.
And just like that scores of people from Bainbridge, Kitsap, and Seattle took the first important steps toward emergency readiness.
