Emergency Preparedness

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How to Register to be apart of NET

Anyone who lives or works in Portland can take NET training. Over 2,800 volunteers have completed basic training. The next In-Person NET Training is March 18 – April 9, 2023 a mix of Saturday and Sunday class options across three weekends, plus the half-day Final Field Exercise. 
Join them today!

May 13, 12:00 – 04:00pm, Citywide Deployment Exercise (CDE): Individual Registration is Open!
Active NETs and ATVs only.* This will be an in-person exercise at team staging areas. Everyone who will participate must register individually, even if you have already been assigned to a role with your team. 

Registration deadline: 04/21.
Please use this form: https://bit.ly/cde20230513

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New Ham Radio Operator License Classes!

Open to all. In response to the pandemic, a group of Portland NET volunteers and other amateur radio operators formed a nonprofit organization and began offering amateur radio license exams online using Zoom. This group of expert instructors organized for the specific educational purpose of licensing new amateur radio operators and upgrading licenses of existing amateur radio operators. Three of the four board members (Herb Weiner, President; Paul Lefevre, Secretary; and Donna Herron, Treasurer) are active NET volunteers. For more info about obtaining your license visit https://aa7hw.org/faq.html 

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The City of Portland is committed to principles of effective emergency management to provide quality emergency response services to its residents. However, despite the City’s efforts, there is still the likelihood that a major disaster, like an earthquake, would overwhelm the City’s and the neighboring community’s professional emergency responders for days or weeks. Therefore, as part of the emergency planning process, Sylvan Highlands Neighborhood Association (SHNA) recognizes the need for residents to be prepared, organized, and trained to effectively work together to quickly assess damages and respond to their own emergency needs. It is for such a situation that the following program is being developed.

SHNA is developing a Neighborhood Emergency Preparedness Plan to promote assistance to our neighbors and establish clear lines of communication during an emergency or disaster situation. This new plan will incorporate the important aspects of the Neighbor Cluster Program and individual and family preparedness. Neighborhoods need all levels of involvement from preparing your own household, being a safe house, to serving as a Cluster Captain.

Cluster Captains have a very important role in this plan.

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Portland Bureau of Emergency Management – NET

In the event of a citywide or regional emergency such as a severe winter storm, flood or major earthquake, households need to be prepared to be on their own for at least a week. Neighborhoods need to be prepared for self-sufficiency, too. Volunteer neighborhood rescuers will likely be first on-the-scene when firefighters and police are slowed by impassable streets or overwhelmed by calls for help.

Neighborhood Emergency Teams (NETs) are Portland residents trained by PBEM and Portland Fire & Rescue to provide emergency disaster assistance within their own neighborhoods. NET members are trained to save lives and property until professional responders can arrive. These volunteers are specially trained to help others without putting themselves in harm’s way. NET members are:

1. Prepared to be self-sufficient for two weeks during any emergency.
2. Able to provide emergency assistance to their family and immediate neighbors.
3. Able to work within an emergency response team to save lives and property in their neighborhood.
4. Able to guide untrained volunteers who want to help others during a disaster.

For more information and how to get involved with NET see the City of Portland PBEM

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