This Saturday, July 29th, the Seattle Emergency Hubs will host a citywide drill. The drill will run from 9am to 12 Noon. During this drill participants will practice for “the big one.”

Specifically, this drill will be a continuation of the Cascadia Rising Subduction Zone earthquake, on day six after the initial quake.

You can participate by contacting info@seattleemergencyhubs.org

The Office of Emergency Management and Department of Neighborhoods recently announced that the concept of community based hubs is expanding to include the P-Patch Gardens in the City of Seattle.

“The Seattle Office of Emergency Management (OEM) is partnering with the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods P-Patch Community Gardening Program to designate all P-Patch Gardens as gathering places during an emergency (Community Emergency Hubs).

Community Emergency Hubs are places where people gather after a disaster to help each other. Hubs serve as a central gathering place among neighbors in homes, apartments, and condominiums. They include spaces like the P-Patches, which are already natural gathering places. With the addition of the P-Patches, it means neighbors and community members now have about 150 pre-determined places.

In West Seattle the hubs are located at:

Alaska Junction Hope Lutheran Church

4456 42nd SW

High Point Neighborhood House

6400 Sylvan Way SW

E.C. Hughes Playground

29th Ave SW. and SW Holden Street

In Ballard the hubs are located at:

Loyal Heights Playfield

2101 NW 77th Street

Phinney Community Center

6532 Phinney Ave. North