LAFD CERT Battalion 15 Presents Sandbagging

Are you prepared to fight the forces of Nature by yourself?

This would be a tremendous challenge. In our flood-prone, fire-prone and mudslide-prone area, we must plan and prepare for extreme Water and Mud flows down our residential streets.

While you cannot easily STOP the flow of water or mud, you can certianly slow it down and/or properly divert the flow with SANDBAGS.

We will show you how to properly fill a sandbag and, yes, you will get to fill some sandbags.

We will build a 'Sandbag wall', insuring its integrity along the way.

This event is NOT AT FIRE STATION 87.

In order to allow the participants to experience how to fill the sandbags, we are using the Parking Lot at Knollwood Country Clum (adjacent to Fire Station 18). We have ordered sand and sandbags for our exercise.

This is a 'Community meeting' so all community members are welcome to attend. For those who are not yet in CERT, you are welcome to attend the lecture and participate with the CERT members during the skills portion. We have many basic CERT classes starting in the Valley this year and next, so there are many opportunities to learn CERT skills.

What to bring: If you are a CERT member, you should bring your PPE's (Personal Protective Equipment such as leather gloves, CERT Helmet, N95 face mask, googles.

Also, everyone should consider bringing a shovel and gloves for this particular event!!

If you are not yet a CERT member, please bring a notepad, take notes and ask questions.

Location for Knollwood Country Club

Where: Knollwood Country Club 'South portion of Parking Lot'

Where: 12040 Balboa Blvd, Granada Hills, CA 91344

When: Saturday, November 15th 09:00 - 12:00pm

ONLY USE THE 'IN' driveway when entering; the 'OUT' driveway when exiting.

Look for the CERT EZ-Up as you make the quick Right turn after entering the IN driveway.

Balboa Blvd can be very Dangerous so be careful.

Pat Hall and Glenn Dollar

LAFD CERT Battalion 15 Co-Coordinators

LAFDCERTBATT15@gmail.com