Community Relations


  
  
•How To Prepare For and Survive a Disaster in Palos Verdes Estates
•Get Ready Get Certified Form
•Skills, Equipment and Needs Survey Form
•Donation Form
• Disaster Preparedness Guidelines

Disaster Planning Tools Available to PVE Residents

During major disasters, it is not uncommon for emergency personnel to be overwhelmed by a number of concurrent calls for service.  As a result, it is imperative that each household take proactive steps to be prepared in the event of a major disaster.  Emergency personnel from both the City’s Police Department and from the Los Angeles County Fire Department have devised complementary plans to help increase our community’s survivability.  These programs are described briefly below:

PVE’s Get Ready – Get Certified Program

Together with resident volunteers and emergency personnel, the City is pleased to announce the Get Ready – Get Certified disaster preparedness program.

The Get Ready – Get Certified program has been developed as a component of the PVE Disaster District Plan (DDP) devised to enhance your family’s emergency preparedness.   The program is designed to allow residents to self-certify through an easy 3-step process:

1. Become informed about Disaster Preparedness and develop, and implement, a household plan using the Get Ready – Get Certified guidelines.

2. Acquire and safely store adequate water and food supplies for each household member.

3. Acquire and safely store emergency equipment and supplies for your household.

The City will provide the requisite sources of information to accomplish these three actions. When these three steps are complete, a one-page self certification form demonstrates your household has completed the three step process.  For additional information on this program, or to begin the certification process, please click on link below or contact Community Relations Officer Laurie Slawson of the PVE Police Department at (310) 378-4211.

 • Certification Form


Ready! Set! Go! Personal Wildfire Action Plan   

In a similar manner, the Los Angeles County Fire Department takes precautions to help protect you and your property from wildfire.  In the event of a major wildfire, however, there will simply not be enough fire engines or firefighters to defend every home in the early stages of the incident.  This reality requires you to take personal responsibility for protecting yourself, your family and your property.

The Fire Department developed the Ready! Set! Go! Personal Wildfire Action Plan to give you the tips and tools to successfully prepare for a wildfire.  The Plan will give you guidance on retrofitting your home with fire-resistive features and it will help you create the necessary defensible space around your home.  This publication will help you prepare your home, yourself, and your family so that you can go early; well ahead of a fast-approaching wildfire.

In Los Angeles County, wildfires are often fueled by dry vegetation and driven by hot, dry “Santa Ana” winds, making them extremely dangerous and impossible to control.  However, many residents have built their homes and landscaped without fully understanding the impact that a wildfire could have on them.  Few have adequately prepared their families for a quick evacuation.

It’s not a question of “if,” but “when” the next major wildfire will occur in Los Angeles County.  That’s why the most important person in protecting your life and property is not the firefighter, but yourself.  Through advance planning and preparation, we can all be ready for the next wildfire.   For more information call the LAC Fire Department Public Information Office at (323) 881-2411 or download the brochure by clicking the Ready! Set! Go! Link below.

 • Ready! Set! Go! Personal Wildfire Action Plan

Through the successful completion of these two programs, your family and home will be better prepared for a disaster

OTHER  EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS LINKS

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