Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management Resource Websites

Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Information Links

Operational Area

• County of Los Angeles Emergency Survival Program - http://www.espfocus.org
• Los Angeles County Operational Area - OEM - http://www.lacoa.org
• County of Los Angeles Public Health - http://www.labt.org
• LA County Fire Department - http://www.lacofd.org/epevents.htm
• LA County Department of Public Works - http://dpw.co.la.ca.us/sitemap.cfm
• LA County Department of Public Social Services - http://www.ladpss.org/dpss/emergency_management/default_disaster.cfm
• Information on Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) - http://www.cert-la.com/
• LA City Emergency Preparedness Department - http://www.lacity.org/epd/
• LA City Fire Department - http://www.lafd.org/eqindex.htm
• U.S. Geological Survey - Pasadena website - http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/

State Sites

• California Office of Emergency Services - http://www.oes.ca.gov
• The California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES) - http://www.ceres.ca.gov
• West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center - http://wcatwc.gov/main.htm
• OSHA workplace preparedness information - http://www.oshaslc.gov/SLTC/smallbusiness/sec10.html
• California Seismic Safety Commission - http://www.seismic.ca.gov/

National Sites

• U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security Citizen Preparedness Website - http://www.ready.gov
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) - http://www.fema.gov
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - http://www.cdc.gov
• Centers for Disease Control Bio-Terrorism - http://www.bt.cdc.gov
• U.S. Geological Survey - http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/faq.html
• US Department of the Interior - http://www.doi.gov/nathaz/index.html
• FEMA and Environmental Systems Research - http://www.esri.com/hazards.
• US National Fire Plan - http://www.fireplan.gov
• The National Interagency Fire Center - http://www.nifc.gov.
• FEMA wildfire prevention information http://www.fema.gov/library/wildlanf.htm
• National Transportation Safety Board (Federal lead agency in air crash disasters) - http://www.ntsb.gov/
• Aviation Safety Network - http://aviation-safety.net/index.shtml
• The National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) - http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/hazards.html.
• National Hurricane Center - http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
• National Weather Service - http://www.nws.noaa.gov/;
• National Weather Service Los Angeles office - http://www.nwsla.noaa.gov/
• National tsunami hazard mitigation program - http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami-hazard/
• NOAA Climate Prediction Center - http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/
• FEMA on the National Flood Insurance Program - http://www.fema.gov/nfip/qanda.htm

Preparedness Sites

• American Red Cross Disaster Preparedness Information http://www.prepare.org
• American Red Cross http://www.redcross.org
• National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (NVOAD) http://www.nvoad.org
• Disabled People and Disaster Planning http://www.citycent.com/dp2/index.html http://www.jik.com/disaster.html.
• Animal Preparedness Disaster Directory http://www.horsereview.com/disaster_preparedness_directory.htm
• Children and disasters http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~disaster/teacher/teacher.html
• Living Independently in Los Angeles http://lila.ucla.edu
• Business & Industry Council for Emergency Planning and Preparedness (BICEPP) http://www.bicepp.org

International disasters

• US State Department archive - http://www.state.gov/www/issues/relief/gdin.html
• Non-governmental organizations in international disasters - http://www.interaction.org, http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf
• Information on international disasters from Reuters Foundation - http://www.alertnet.org/

Nonprofits active in disaster

• Emergency Network Los Angeles - http://www.enla.org
• American Red Cross (ARC) - national website - http://www.redcross.org
• Local ARC chapters:

  Los Angeles - http://www.acrossla.org/
  San Gabriel Valley - http://www.redcross.org/ca/sgva/
  Long Beach - http://www.greaterlongbeachrc.org/
  Rio Hondo - http://www.arcriohondo.org/
  Glendale - http://www.arcglendale.org/;
  Santa Monica - http://www.redcrossofsantamonica.org/
  Claremont - http://www.redcross.org/ca/claremont/;
  Arcadia - http://www.redcross.org/ca/arcadia/
  LA area blood services - http://www.redcross.org/ca/socal/

• Operation USA - http://www.opusa.org
• Call 2-1-1 - http://www.infoline-la.org/
• Los Angeles Regional Foodbank - http://www.lafightshunger.org/
• NVOAD (National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters) - http://www.nvoad.org

Legislation websites

• Federal legislation - http://thomas.loc.gov/
• US law - http://uscode.house.gov/usc.htm, http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/
• California law - http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html
• US Supreme Court - http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/
• The Stafford Act (defines federal government relief services both to governments, nonprofits, and the public - http://www.fema.gov/library/stafact.shtm
• Los Angeles County Code 2.68 - http://ordlink.com/cgi-bin/hilite.pl/codes/lacounty/_DATA/TITLE02/
  Chapter_2_68_EMERGENCY_SERVICES__2/index.html

Some emergency management mail lists you can join

• NVOAD (National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster)- register at http://www.nvoad.org , and subscribe at the NVOADnews link.
• IAEM (International Association of Emergency Managers) mail list: sign up at http://www.iaem.com, follow links to subscribe to the “Emergency Management Discussion List.”
• Cal-EPI-an email community for information officers, journalists, and others interested in emergency public information in California and beyond. To subscribe, send email to "Cal-EPI-request@incident.com" with the word "subscribe" in the message body.
• California emergency notifications, including electrical alerts: register for the mail list at http://www.incident.com/edismail.html
• FEMA E-Mail News Service - subscribe by sending an e-mail message to majordomo@fema.gov with the single command in the body of the message: "subscribe news."
• Networks in Emergency Management (Nets) focuses on computer networks to support emergency management- subscribe by sending an e-mail message to majordomo@sfu.ca with the single command in the body of the message: "subscribe nets-em [your e-mail address]."
• Natural-Hazards-Disasters is an e-mail discussion list for anyone interested in natural hazards and disasters (hosted by the Benfield Greig Hazard Research Centre, University College London) - subscribe by sending an e-mail message to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk with the command in the body of the message: "join natural-hazards-disasters [your first name, your last name]."
• Disaster Survivor Support group (a peer support network for anyone who has endured a disaster, including families who have lost loved ones) - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisasterSurvivorSupport.

Pager or email notification of disasters

• Earthquake notifications - http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/latest/mailing_lists.html
• California Emergency Digital Information (EDIS) notifications via email - http://www.incident.com