Have you talked with your family about an evacuation plan?

Preparedness begins by considering what each person in your home might need and understanding the risks you might encounter. The goal is to ensure that everyone in your household is ready.

• Oregon Wildfire Response & Recovery: Live Evacuation Boundary Map
• Wildfire Evacuation Checklist

Pack The Six P's For Evacuation:  

1. People and pets (food, water, hygiene, sanitation, clothing and comfort items). 
2. Prescriptions (medications, eyeglasses and medical devices). 
3. Phones, personal computers, hard drives or disks, and chargers. 
4. “Plastic” (ATM debit and credit cards) and cash. 
5. Papers and important documents (photo identification, birth certificates, social security cards, passports, visas, insurance policy, mortgage deed or rental agreement, medical records, banking or financial records). 

Lane Alerts

Lane Alerts allows fire, police, and other emergency response agencies to issue alerts to residents in the event of severe weather, fire, flooding, hazardous materials, need for immediate evacuation, civil danger, local area emergencies, and missing persons. 

In the event of an emergency, alerts will be delivered to you at the contact information you provided, including telephone, text messages and email.

What should you put in an emergency supply kit?

Have you considered waste disposal and hygiene items?

Here are some ideas to help your family stay safe and comfortable during an emergency.

When pruning or removing a tree, safety should be your main concern. Before you begin work on a tree, survey the area for overhead power lines. If you see lines in or near the tree you are planning to work on, please get in touch with us. Avoid working near power lines as contact can cause serious injury or death.

Important safety tips:

• Look up and live! Watch for overhead power lines when moving ladders or tools.
• Inspect your trees in the fall before winter weather arrives. And after a storm with wind, ice or snow survey your trees for damage. Give us a call if trees or branches near power lines appear hazardous or damaged.
• Do not let children play near power lines. Even if a tree isn't touching the lines, a child's weight on a branch could bring it in contact with a live line.

When selecting a new tree to plant, we recommend the "Right Tree, Right Place" approach. By picking the proper species and planting procedure, you can increase public safety, reduce power outages, reduce the need for routine pruning and promote healthy, beautiful trees.

If you decide to plant trees under or next to power lines:
Choose small trees (up to 25 feet high at maturity) for planting under or next to overhead power lines as they will seldom need to be pruned for line clearance.

Broad program goals

Resilient communities and effective organizations: Where whole communities have the capacity, resources, and tools they need to cope with and adapt to stress and disturbance while maintaining key functions and values.

Cultures of adaptation: Where locally adapted solutions support people’s values and ecosystem health and ongoing engagement, learning, and relationships among people, place, and fire support desired fire cultures.

Fire-adapted ecosystems: Where appropriate patterns of wildfire occur and support key functions and processes in a diversity of ecosystems.