you need but it come back to the community. i really want you all to leave here today with the tools and strategies you need to go forth and do the right thing in your communities and build strength and power. it s up to all of us to continue to build community and organize. i thank you all for your participation. we will stay here for a bit to answer any other questions people have as they are leaving. thank you all very much. [applause]. i have a news letter and people have things to distribute. robert s rules in brief is right here. this is the break outsession on disaster preparedness. many of you were here for the lunchtime speaker talking about the broad more district about how community building before a disaster aides in recovery. and that s a lot of what we are trying to generate through the neighborhood empowerment network. we know in san francisco it s not if we have a big disaster it s when. usgf says 62 percent of the next 25 years we will have a major disaster
the question is how to bring people together from different organizations to organize. good ahead. on your specific geographical location, northwest alliance is the most active organizations and they have an incredible out reach to merchants and neighbors and all sorts of entities. personally i would first go to them. second, coalition for san francisco neighborhoods are the mother. i can t get in touch with you unless you sign in to the clip board that should be going around. please, sign it and put your name and address and phone number or not address by neighborhood in there. i do want to stress that the city, through the department of children youth and families funded for every big population of neighborhoods the new convener grant where they pay someone who is holding convening meetings where tla bring city departments and neighborhood associations and residents and tenant associations together. that s a resource that people need to tap into. it s not for a set
trying to generate through the neighborhood empowerment network. we know in san francisco it s not if we have a big disaster it s when. usgf says 62 percent of the next 25 years we will have a major disaster on the faults in the bay area. there was damage in san francisco because of the loma parade earthquake. that was not our earthquake. that was the earthquake of santa cruise centered 50 mile it is south of here. that was a big quake for that area. when exerts talk about a big earthquake in san francisco they are talking about an earthquake the size of the 1906 quake and the damage after we saw. you know there are plans in place. the do a lot of planning around emergency preparedness. there is no doubt that resources will be overwhelmed in a disaster. transportation will be affected. electricity will be out. and phone service will be interrupted. hospitals will be overwhelmed. i think that s why each one of you are here today because you understand it s not about us being
[applause]. i have a news letter and people have things to distribute. robert s rules in brief is right here. this is the break outsession on disaster preparedness. many of you were here for the lunchtime speaker talking about the broad more district about how community building before a disaster aides in recovery. and that s a lot of what we are trying to generate through the neighborhood empowerment network. we know in san francisco it s not if we have a big disaster it s when. usgf says 62 percent of the next 25 years we will have a major disaster on the faults in the bay area. there was damage in san francisco because of the loma parade earthquake. that was not our earthquake. that was the earthquake of santa cruise centered 50 mile it is south of here. that was a big quake for that area. when exerts talk about a big earthquake in san francisco they are talking about an earthquake the size of the 1906 quake and the damage after we saw. you know there are plans in plac
organize in her neighborhood. then we will have mat lynn macky from the red cross talk about using red cross resources. to be prepared for a disaster. we have michaelllow from china town disaster preparedness committee an example of an organized neighborhood they have their own disaster plan. we have judy choi from animal care and control that will talk about pet preparedness and michael from pg and e. i will facilitate a discussion after based on the questions folks have. let s get started. i m amy with the department of emergency management. thank you. hi. thank you all for chosing to get involved in the conversation of disaster prepared. i would like to present alth about the training program the san francisco department provides free of charge to you. there are a few people in the room that are are nert trained. anybody else? know we are appreciative for that. 1990 for the fighter department to the react which was training for citizens and how to take care theflgz aft