The Emergency Volunteer Corps of Nehalem Bay will host an on-line class on “Camping at Home” Thursday, Sep. 23 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The class will discuss the equipment a household…
Category: Emergency Preparedness
Sitka Center Youth Arts Program – Summer Workshops “What We Do Matters!” Combine Science, Art, Outdoors & More
OIOpublisher By Leeauna Perry, Youth Program Coordinator, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology OTIS, OR – August 13, 2021 – Beginning in early July nearly 110 Pre-K through 8th grade students engaged…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: Gordon’s Update – Weather & COVID-19 Testing, Vaccines 8/26/21
By Gordon McCraw, Tillamook County Emergency Manager Thursday, August 26, 2021,10 am Weather Well, we had a few hundredths of an inch of rain yesterday associated with a weak front that went through and today we…
Emergency Volunteer Corps of Nehalem Bay: COVID-19 MESSAGE TO OUR NEHALEM BAY COMMUNITIES
COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are increasing rapidly in Tillamook County, specifically the much more contagious Delta variant. In July, we celebrated the decline in Covid cases after more than a year. We…
Go-Bag Class Goes Online
The Emergency Volunteer Corps of Nehalem Bay will hold its first online Go-Bag training class Friday, Aug. 27 via Zoom. The 90-minute class will run from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The new…
Adventist Health Tillamook Pauses Elective Surgery Schedule to Accommodate COVID Surge Effective Aug. 18 through Aug. 27
August 18, 2021, Tillamook, Ore. – In order to address the influx of patients needing testing and treatment of COVID, Adventist Health Tillamook Medical Center is pausing elective surgeries for the remainder…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: Gordon’s Update – Weather; Mask Up Indoors State Mandate – 8/13/21
By Gordon McCraw, Tillamook County Emergency Management Director Friday, August 13, 2021, 09:00am Weather Warm here but still hot over in the valley with the ridge of high pressure drifting east over…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: Gordon’s Update – Weather & COVID-19 – 08/10/21
By Gordon McCraw, Tillamook County Emergency Management Director Tuesday, August 10, 2021, 09:15am Weather We continue to watch the upper level ridge of high pressure building to the west that will drift…
FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test for Aug. 11 Test Messages Will be Sent to TVs and Radios Along with Select Cell Phones That Have Opted-in to Receive Test Messages
WASHINGTON – FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission, will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) this summer. The national test will consist of two portions,…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY WELLNESS: Be Prepared – Not Scared: Emergency Preparedness Takes on New Meaning in Tillamook County after 2020’s Pike Road Fire
By Laura Swanson, Tillamook County Wellness Advisory Committee Member Tillamook County is known for its emergency preparedness – for storms, winds and floods. Last year’s wildfire in Bay City was a different…