Volunteers are busy adding content to the MPC Ready website. Please visit our new pages on Social Capital Research and Emergency Radio Communications. We also invite our community to write blogs on topics relevant to disaster preparedness and hazard mitigation.
Marcussen Drive held its first neighborhood disaster preparedness training on Feb 4, 2022! This 7-month-long training will be held the first Thursday of each month from 6-7:30 p.m. After a disaster, studies show that the neighbors most likely provide any needed help! Knowing them beforehand, and having a plan to work together, improves disaster resiliency.
Marcussen Drive Neighborhood Training Read More »
By Ron Snow, University Park Neighborhood Coordinator A broken gas pipe on Vine St. Wednesday (Sep 8, 2021) was a bit of a wakeup call for neighborhood emergency preparedness. A construction crew accidently broke the PG&E gas pipe at 11:37am. Oak Knoll’s school yard was evacuated and the students were placed in a sheleter in
Serious Gas Leak on Vine St. — Wakeup Call Read More »
Topic: 7 Steps to Earthquake Preparedness. Please join us to hear from David Cosgrave, Division Chief, CAL Fire, San Mateo Division who is speaking to us as part of the Earthquake Country Alliance’s Speaker Bureau. Please visit events page for link.
Sep 25 @ 9 a.m. — MPC Ready Monthly Community Meeting Read More »
If you’re not sure what the term “public health” means, you’re not alone. And yet, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us just how important it is. The field of public health focuses on promoting and protecting the health of communities. It does so through health education, scientific research, advocating for improved safety standards, health equity
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It’s definitely something to keep in mind, depending on where you live in Menlo Park. Floods are the most common natural disaster in the United States. Flooding, by definition, is a temporary overflow of water onto land that is normally dry. So it isn’t limited to the pictures we see of rivers overflowing their banks or
Worried about floods? Read More »