South San Francisco, CA April 22, 2015 Submitted by Ken Anderson, SSFFD & SMC Health Dept
The San Mateo County Health Department’s annual Operation Silver Dragon takes place tomorrow, April 23rd, between 9:00 AM and noon. This exercise involves deploying trained and vetted volunteers from the South San Francisco Community Emergency Response (CERT), delivering reusable shopping bags that contain emergency preparedness literature. It simulates distribution of important information or medicine that might take place during a real emergency. This year’s exercise is designed to simulate a widespread power outage, and teams will be performing mock welfare checks, looking for vulnerable populations in need of electricity for medical devices or those with other kinds of medical fragility who may be impacted by a power outage. VOLUNTEERS WILL NOT KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR or disturb you in any other way. They are not soliciting anything. Bags will be left on your doorstep if it is easily accessible.
Neighborhoods affected are:
Parts of Sunshine Gardens and Alta Loma Neighborhoods
Thank you for your continued support of our efforts to better serve the disaster preparedness and public health needs for the City of South San Francisco and its residents.
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The Silver Dragon will take place in neighborhoods through out San Mateo County by local CERT
More on our CERT program CLICK HERE