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Neighborhood Preparedness

The following resources will help you prepare for natural disasters: GET EMERGENCY ALERTS! Aware & Prepare: In Santa Barbara County, residents can receive Aware & Prepare alerts and updates via text messages, emails, and cellular and landline phone calls. To…

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Masks Save Lives!

Since April 7, 2020, hundreds of our volunteers have made and handed out more than 35,000 free masks to help protect nurses, agricultural workers, food security experts, healthcare workers, grocery store clerks, homeless shelter workers, and others. Do you need…

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Community Self-Rescue (CSR)

In the wake of the Thomas Fire and 1/9 Debris Flow, the Bucket Brigade deployment plan was based on the concept of the Incident Command System (ICS) used by professional first responders and adapted to allow for rapid scaling of…

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