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On June 5, residents of the Fitch Mountain community east of Healdsburg will take part in a coordinated evacuation drill involving the County of Sonoma, Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office, the City of Healdsburg, community groups and fire agencies. The exercise is part of a community-wide effort to prepare for wildfires and other potential disasters.
This exercise will provide public safety departments an opportunity to practice alerting an area using the Hi-Lo sirens and to further test the County’s alerting system. Residents will have the opportunity to review the process of evacuating their homes and leaving their neighborhoods.
Schedule of events:
● 8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. – Exercise begins. Registered participants will receive a SoCo Alert notification on their phones prompting them to evacuate to the designated assembly point, the Healdsburg Community Center. Hi-Lo sirens also will be activated by Sonoma County Sheriff’s officers to alert participants that the exercise has begun.
If members of the media would like to receive the alert, please register by 5 p.m. on June 3 here.
● The public is welcome to attend an emergency preparedness resource fair at Healdsburg Community Center following the exercise
● 9:30 a.m.: Remarks from command team and leadership at Healdsburg Community Center
For more information visit: www.socoemergency.org/2021Drill
