Emergency Information Council

An emergency or disaster can erase the vital documents and records of our lives instantly if we haven’t prepared in advance. Planning ahead means saving the basic information needed to endure a crisis and get lives back on track afterwards. One way to do that is to have our vital documents and information scanned onto a memory stick, sometimes called a thumb drive, and keeping that drive with your emergency Go Bag in case you have to evacuate in a hurry.

From the LW weekly March 7, 2024 EIC President Jackie Dunagan and EIC Secretary Marty Williams scan vital documents for resident Heather McKinney. The Emergency Information Council held its first vital document scanning event on Thursday Feb 22. Residents brought their Stock and Membership certificates, Medical Power of Attorney documents and other important papers to […]

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The Emergency Information Council held its second vital document scanning event on Monday April 29. Residents brought their Stock and Membership certificates, Medical Power of Attorney documents and other important papers to be scanned onto a free thumb drive. Driver’s license and credit cards were copied and then scanned as well. There was plenty of […]

  The next Emergency Information Council (EIC) meeting will be at 1 p.m., Thursday May 9th, in Building 5, Room B. Among the topics to be discussed will be the results of the latest scanning event and the planned upcoming presentations and services connected with disaster preparedness. A presentation from SBPD about the City Local […]

Seal Beach Police Emergency Services Coordinator Sergeant Brian Gray will speak at the Emergency Information Council’s speaker series about the City’s Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP) on Monday, May 13, in Clubhouse 4, at 1pm. Regardless of the cause of a disaster, emergency management is needed to prepare for, mitigate, respond to, and recover from […]