Wildfire Preparedness Workshop | Los Altos Community Center - 2025

Wildfire Preparedness Workshop | Los Altos Community Center - 2025

Learn How to Reduce Wildfire Risk and Better Prepare Your Home, Your Family and Your Neighborhood

By Santa Clara County Fire Department

Date and time

Location

Los Altos Community Center

97 Hillview Avenue Los Altos, CA 94022

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours

Join us to learn how to reduce wildfire risk and better prepare your home, your family, and your neighborhood.

WORKSHOP FORMAT: This workshop will include a Wildfire Readiness Presentation and then an opportunity to visit Resource Tables staffed by local agencies to assist you in preparing and answering your wildfire preparedness questions.


PRESENTATION: Topics for this presentation will include:

•Be READY
-Reduce Wildfire Risks: Home Hardening and Defensible Space
-Community Readiness - Firewise Communities
-Emergency Notification Systems and Red Flag Warnings

•Get SET
-Create a Wildfire Action Plan
-Assemble Emergency Go Kits
-Learn Evacuation Terminology

•GO!
-Be Evacuation Ready
-Stay Informed


RESOURCE TABLES: Visit and connect with the local Agencies to gather more information on how to prepare for wildfire:

  • American Red Cross
  • California Department of Insurance (CDI)
  • CalFIRE
  • Consumer and Environmental Protection Agency (CEPA)
  • Firewise Community Leaders
  • Pet and Large Animal Rescue
  • Local Law Enforcement
  • Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E)
  • Santa Clara County Fire Department
  • Santa Clara County FireSafe Council
  • Santa Clara County Office of Emergency Management (OEM)
  • Valley Water

*If Agency is not present, printed resources will be available.

For more information on Ready, Set & Go wildfire preparedness, visit www.sccfd.org/rsg

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This workshop is open to individuals who live or work within the communities served by Santa Clara County Fire Department: Campbell, Cupertino, Los Gatos, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Monte Sereno, Saratoga and the unincorporated surrounding areas.

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Santa Clara County Fire Department

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
Aug 16 · 1:00 PM PDT