You hear it every year:  “Check on your neighbors, especially the elderly” during extreme heat or cold.  As you get older, you become more susceptible to being overcome by extreme temperatures, due to a variety of causes.   Fixed Incomes:  The elderly are more likely to be living on a fixed income, and reluctant, or unable, to pay for higher...

Post by:  Gina Stone   It doesn’t take a widespread disaster to affect your personal safety.  Crime is everywhere, and and you need 2 BEE Ready to protect yourself in every day life.  Personal safety is not only about you, but the safety of your children as well, whether they are teens or toddlers.   Teaching children about their personal safety can be...

Post by:  Chris Hall   Seconds count in an emergency. When you need help and have made the decision to call 9-1-1 you need help NOW.  Yet there are few courses in school or in the public sector that teach you HOW to effectively call 9-1-1 for help.   If you follow along with the steps below, you will be light years ahead of the average...

Poll by:  2BeeReady   We talk a lot about being prepared in an emergency.  Today, we would like to know if you have been evacuated from your home during a crisis.  And if you have, were you prepared?  Take a moment to answer our poll questions:       Have you ever been evacuated from your home due to an emergency? No Yes,...

Post by:  Chris Hall   As an emergency manager for a volunteer fire department, I’ve had my share of incidents and events that required me to manage risk.   The Amgen Tour of California racing through my jurisdiction, with an instant one-day increase in population of 20,000 people (mostly on bikes) in a rural area, was one such event fraught with...

Post by:  Gina Stone   There’s a video I watched that has haunted me. A little girl after the Joplin tornado was with her mother, picking up pieces of their home. She found a pink umbrella, and as little girls are apt to do, toted around this parasol. All the while picking up pieces of wood and such —what most would call debris, but what she used to...