You are receiving this email because you signed an interest list at the OES and Animal Control meeting on animal evacuation back in July.
BACKGROUND
The Amador Fire Safe Council has received two grants to write community conservation wildfire protections plans for portions of Amador County. In addition to human evacuation, these two plans will also include livestock and small pet evacuations. We will produce a written document and these plans will also have a significant GIS (Geographic Information Systems) segment with dynamic, computer driven maps that can be updated and produced immediately in the event of a wildfire or other natural disaster.
PROGRESS
Today I met with Matt Miller of Animal Control to develop the animal evacuation portion of the plan. Many of you volunteered to help transport animals or volunteered your properties for evacuation sites in the event that the fairgrounds or Howard Park cannot accommodate animals due to use for human evacuations or as fire camps. In the near future, I will be traveling about with a GPS unit collecting latitude/longitude of your driveway and your street. This will be dropped into the GIS map layer and the emergency agencies can then "click" on your location and a balloon of information will pop up with your address and other information.
WE NEED:
For those of you who are still willing to have your barns be part of the evacuation process, I will need the following information:
1. Your physical address with nearest cross street
2. Telephone number(s) and contact information
3. Type of fencing/cross fencing
4. Type of barn and # of stalls
5. Number and type of animals that you can accommodate (in Amador county, we have hundreds of horses, dogs and cats; in addition, we have a significant number of smaller livestock such as goats, sheep, llamas; there is also a small population of special handling needs animals like emus and bison)
6. How long are you willing to house the animals?
7. Do you have a trailer and how many/type animals can you carry?
8. Do you have portable panels?
9. Can you help with longer term feeding, cleaning, care (Once the initial evacuations are completed, folks may not be able to return home with their animals for a week or more; feed would be supplied but many hands will be needed)
10. Do you have a reflectorized address sign at the end of your driveway? (if not, we can provide you with a sign)
You can "reply" to this email with your information. I already have some of this information for Jeanne Kendall/Melba Caster; Babara Reilly, and Anne Frost.
PHONE TREE
n addition, we are looking at developing one or more phone trees based on this list. Currently, folks on this list are scattered between Ione and Pioneer, with a couple from Wallace and West Point.
TRAINING
Matt Miller tells me that Animal Control is still working up details on disaster/emergency training for us. We would like to schedule another meeting for this group in late October. Please let me know if daytime or early evening is better; weekday or weekend? We cannot schedule this meeting for Mondays or Tuesdays.
WEB
I will also be posting this information at the following website: http://amadormountainhorsealliance.blogspot.com/ and as a link on the AFSC website, http://www.amadorfiresafe.org/
OPT - OUT
And lastly, if you have decided that you no longer wish to participate, please let me know as soon as possible so I can take you off this list.
Have a good weekend and please be Fire Safe,
Cathy
Cathy Koos Breazeal
BACKGROUND
The Amador Fire Safe Council has received two grants to write community conservation wildfire protections plans for portions of Amador County. In addition to human evacuation, these two plans will also include livestock and small pet evacuations. We will produce a written document and these plans will also have a significant GIS (Geographic Information Systems) segment with dynamic, computer driven maps that can be updated and produced immediately in the event of a wildfire or other natural disaster.
PROGRESS
Today I met with Matt Miller of Animal Control to develop the animal evacuation portion of the plan. Many of you volunteered to help transport animals or volunteered your properties for evacuation sites in the event that the fairgrounds or Howard Park cannot accommodate animals due to use for human evacuations or as fire camps. In the near future, I will be traveling about with a GPS unit collecting latitude/longitude of your driveway and your street. This will be dropped into the GIS map layer and the emergency agencies can then "click" on your location and a balloon of information will pop up with your address and other information.
WE NEED:
For those of you who are still willing to have your barns be part of the evacuation process, I will need the following information:
1. Your physical address with nearest cross street
2. Telephone number(s) and contact information
3. Type of fencing/cross fencing
4. Type of barn and # of stalls
5. Number and type of animals that you can accommodate (in Amador county, we have hundreds of horses, dogs and cats; in addition, we have a significant number of smaller livestock such as goats, sheep, llamas; there is also a small population of special handling needs animals like emus and bison)
6. How long are you willing to house the animals?
7. Do you have a trailer and how many/type animals can you carry?
8. Do you have portable panels?
9. Can you help with longer term feeding, cleaning, care (Once the initial evacuations are completed, folks may not be able to return home with their animals for a week or more; feed would be supplied but many hands will be needed)
10. Do you have a reflectorized address sign at the end of your driveway? (if not, we can provide you with a sign)
You can "reply" to this email with your information. I already have some of this information for Jeanne Kendall/Melba Caster; Babara Reilly, and Anne Frost.
PHONE TREE
n addition, we are looking at developing one or more phone trees based on this list. Currently, folks on this list are scattered between Ione and Pioneer, with a couple from Wallace and West Point.
TRAINING
Matt Miller tells me that Animal Control is still working up details on disaster/emergency training for us. We would like to schedule another meeting for this group in late October. Please let me know if daytime or early evening is better; weekday or weekend? We cannot schedule this meeting for Mondays or Tuesdays.
WEB
I will also be posting this information at the following website: http://amadormountainhorsealliance.blogspot.com/ and as a link on the AFSC website, http://www.amadorfiresafe.org/
OPT - OUT
And lastly, if you have decided that you no longer wish to participate, please let me know as soon as possible so I can take you off this list.
Have a good weekend and please be Fire Safe,
Cathy
Cathy Koos Breazeal
Executive Director
Amador Fire Safe Council
209-296-6220
