Emergency Preparedness

• Sign up for LookoutAlert to receive emergency alerts from emergency responders via text, email, and/or voice message. Click here for step by step instructions.
  
  
• Smart911:
  Sign up for Smart 911 if you might need additional assistance during an evacuation or other emergency situation. Smart911 provides first responders and emergency managers with your special assistance needs. 
  
  
• Gather Disaster Supplies and Make a Go Bag
• Watch the Emergency Preparedness Information Session on June 27, 2023
  • Introduction, Tom Swinson, Chair of the Emergency Preparedness Committee
  • City and County of Broomfield Office of Emergency Preparedness, 2:55
  • Department of Public Health (Emergency Response), 48:30
  • Devon Schad, Schad Insurance Agency, 53:30
  • American Red Cross, 1:10:50
  • Boulder VOAD (Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster), 1:26:20
  • Janet Ross, Skyestone Cares, 1:36:40
  • Alan Halpern, Resident and Marshall Fire Survivor, 1:45:00

 

• Ready.gov, A Website of the US Department of Homeland Security
• Broomfield's Emergency Management
  City and County website providing comprehensive information on emergency preparedness 
• Preparing Homes for Wildfire
  The National Fire Protection Association delivers information to eliminate death, injury, property, and economic loss due to fire, electrical, and related hazards. This page on their extensive website addresses wildfire protection specifically.
• Colorado State Forest Service Publications
  Scroll down the page for documents on wildfire mitigation and education. 
• The Conversation Project
  Public engagement initiative from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to help everyone talk about their wishes for care through the end of life.
• Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
  Link to the advance care planning page on the department's extensive website. 

 

• How to Make a Disaster Supplies Kit or Go Bag
• Emergency Financial First Aid Kit (FEMA)
• Create a Family Emergency Communication Plan (FEMA)

• Emergency Medical Information Form
• Medical Durable Power of Attorney (MDPOA) for Colorado
• Living Will Template for Colorado
• Colorado Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment (MOST)

• Best Practices: Natural Disasters (From the Foundation for Community Association Research)
• Emergency Preparedness Survey Results, June 2023
• Lessons Learned from the Marshall Fire, Alan Halpern

 

• • North Metro Fire Update
  • CCOB Responses To Resident Questions
  • Broomfield Residents' Preparedness Guide

Additional information, including Broomfield's Citizen's Preparedness Guide, is also available in the Lodge lobby.