Get Ready Berkeley Day,Disaster Preparedness May 6, 2006

The City of Berkeley is ramping up their Disaster Preparedness program.

Saturday, May 6th is ?Get Ready Berkeley Day?. Volunteers are needed! 10:00am ? 1:00pm

Volunteers will meet at the Frances Albrier Community Center and receive information to walk door-to-door distributing door hangers with lifesaving information to thousands of residents. At 12:30, the Berkeley Fire Fighters Association will host a BBQ for the volunteers and a prize drawing will be held. All volunteers will receive a safety device.

Disaster Prepared Neighborhoods:

Berkeley hopes to develop 40 more disaster prepared neighborhoods by October 2006. If you are interested in this program, please contact Carol Lopes at 510-981-5576 or email clopes@ci.berkeley.ca.us .

For more information, visit the Disaster Resistant Berkeley webpage:

http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/disasterresistant/