Be Ready: Be Prepared for Disasters | Saratoga - 2025

Be Ready: Be Prepared for Disasters | Saratoga - 2025

When a disaster strikes it may be several days before emergency services arrive in your neighborhood. FREE and In Person.

By Santa Clara County Fire Department

Date and time

Location

Joan Pisani Community Center

19655 Allendale Avenue Saratoga, CA 95070

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

This class is In-Person.
Joan Pisani - Saratoga Community Center. Arts & Crafts Room.
THIS CLASS DATE HAS CHANGED TO Wednesday, Sept 17th, 2025. 10:00am to 11:30am. (Previously was Wednesday, September 24th, 2025)

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When disaster strikes, it may be days before emergency medical, police and fire arrive in your neighborhood. The purpose of this class is to inform and prepare individuals to be self-sufficient for days after an area wide emergency. This class will assist individuals and families to plan and be prepared in event of an emergency or disaster.

Topics include:

Bay Area Risks and Emergency Procedures
-Responding to disasters
-Impacts to infrastructure and communities

Be Ready for Disasters
-Make a Plan
-Get a Kit
-Stay Informed

Fire Safety
-Home fire safety
-Smoke alarms/CO alarms
-Home escape planning
-Fire Extinguisher information & safety precautions

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Organized by

Established in 1947, the Santa Clara County Fire Department provides fire services for Santa Clara County, California (light green in the map below) and the communities of Campbell, Cupertino, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, and Saratoga. The department also provides protection for the unincorporated areas adjacent to those cities. The department's area of coverage is shown in dark green in the map below.

Wrapping in an approximately 20 mile arc around the southern end of "Silicon Valley", the Santa Clara County Fire Department has grown to include 15 fire stations, an administrative headquarters, a maintenance facility, five other support facilities, 19 pieces of apparatus and 3 command vehicles, to cover 128.3 square miles (267 square km) and a population of over 226,700.

Free
Sep 17 · 10:00 AM PDT