| Action | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Living Without Electricity for a Period of Time | IRV - SCE Outage Resources |
When power outages occur, it’s always good to be prepared. Whether it's a maintenance outage or a blackout from an unexpected storm, here are some tips to help you prepare for outages, stay online, and lessen the impact until the lights come back on |
| Making Your Household Safe | IRV - Alert OC |
AlertOC is a mass notification system designed to keep Orange County, California residents and businesses informed of emergencies that may require immediate life saving actions. |
| Emergency Preparedness Planning for Children | Ready.gov - Ready Kids |
Ready Kids provides tools and information to help kids, teens and parents before, during and after disasters. |
| Emergency Preparedness Planning for Children | IRV - Emergency Preparedness for Kids |
List of best practices to help children during disasters with additional national-level resources |
| Making Your Household Safe | IRV - Emergency Preparedness |
Resources from the City of Irvine to help communities including children, persons with disabilities and pets for emergency preparedness with evacuation zone maps |
| Developing Your Communication Systems for an Emergency * | IRV - Evacuation Zone |
Know your evacuation zone in case of emergency situations such as energy blackouts, fires or other disasters |
| Developing Your Communication Systems for an Emergency * | IRV - Emergency Radio 1640 AM |
The City operates and maintains this radio station to better provide effective emergency communication to motorists and residents. This station broadcasts throughout Irvine 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and can provide real-time emergency information including evacuations, road closures, emergency services, and shelter during situations such as earthquakes, fires, power outages, or other disasters. |
| Preparing Several Days' Food Stores * | IRV - Orange County Food Map |
Orange County Free Food Map |
| Preparing Several Days' Food Stores * | SOS Food Lab |
Nutritious, non-thirst provoking, and best-tasting emergency and survival food bars available. They are ideal for emergency situations |
| Preparing Several Days' Food Stores * | SOS Food Lab |
Nutritious, non-thirst provoking, and best-tasting emergency and survival food bars available. They are ideal for emergency situations |
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“Cities are the platform for change in our world today. The Cool Block links the challenges facing our planet to the intimate, personal, social scale of the city block. This program starts and ends with the premise and promise—that the individual, household, and neighbors are the way forward in the face of seemingly insoluble global problems.”
