Check out our educational videos, documents and resources in this library that centers around disaster preparedness. See the recorded zoom links to get the full download of information pertaining to each unique category of preparedness that may resonate with you. Explore the PDF slides if you prefer a tangible copy of the presentation.
Most Recent
Chat with Chief(s)
A special Preparedness edition of Chat with the Chief featured Sgt. Salaman and Louisville's Chief Gutierrez to discuss public safety for both communities.
Topics
Emergency and First Aid
Harm Reduction/ Overdose Prevention- Naxalone 101
Coming Soon: Video
Boulder County Public Health (BCPH) provided a comprehensive workshop on an introduction to harm reduction strategies, overdose prevention, and Boulder County's Works Program. Participants will gain essential skills in recognizing and responding to opioid-related overdoses, ensuring they are better equipped to protect their community.
Center for Inclusive Design and Engineering is offering resources through Colorado's Medicaid Program for Battery back up and emergency go bags. Click here to read more information on existing programs.
Wildfire Community Enhancements
Wildfire Resilient Community
The Town of Superior's Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Department, in collaboration with Wildfire Partners, hosted a webinar dedicated to building a wildfire-resilient community. Discover best practices for hardening homes, structures, and landscapes to mitigate wildfire risks. Working together is essential for ensuring the safety of our community.
Wildfire Partners and CSU extension presents wildfire mitigation best practices that inform landscape choices and concepts behind the Sustainable Landscape Templates.
Wildfire Partners presents on tips for increasing neighborhood resiliency through non-combustible fencing options, fire-wise landscaping, and home hardening.
Homeowner Adaptation Strategies
Cold climate heat pumps can meet your home's heating needs in Boulder County's climate, with or without backup heat. However, not all heat pumps are made the same and careful selection is necessary. Also, heat pumps operate a little differently than furnaces. This webinar for homeowners covered both what to look for in selecting a heat pumps and heat pump hot water heaters, including the criteria to earn incentives, and what to expect about living with heat pumps and heat pump hot water heaters.
Animal Preparedness
Rover Ready Workshop
The Town of Superior's Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Department is hosted a "Rover Ready" workshop to help our community prepare dogs for potential disasters. The workshop features two hours of presentations, offering valuable insights on dog training for disaster preparedness, the Red Cross Pet Champion Program, HOPE Therapy Dogs, Pet Help & Rescue App, and medical preparation for pets in emergencies.
General Pet Preparedness and Pet Help & Rescue App Webinar
This webinar was hosted by City of Louisville in partnership with David Crawford, founder of Pet Help & Rescue (PHaR) app. This provides an overview of pet preparedness, evacuation planning and tools that can help you plan for your pets before a disaster. Find out more about the PHaR app as a tool for friends and neighbors to keep pets safe and evacuating them when disasters strike.
This cat preparedness informational seminar shared beneficial information to cat owners in the community to help them better prepare their cats and households for future disasters. It covered critical cat training behaviors such as; body sensitivity, crating, recalls in the home, loading and unloading in vehicles, creating a go bag for your cat, and cat mental wellbeing.
Boulder County Animal Control officers & Office of Disaster Management, and Front Range Veterinary Medical Reserve Corps educate on Animal Disaster Preparedness including evacuations.
Water Resource Management
Protecting the Watershed and Water Sources
Experts discuss wildfire mitigation efforts in the water shed areas and protecting our local water sources during and after disasters.
General Preparedness
Disaster Strong: Train the Trainer
Office of Disaster Management educates and empowers community to become Community Preparedness Ambassadors.
Living with Fire Series
Program 1:
Local fire and land managers discuss response strategies, prescribed fire treatments, weather requirements, and what it means to live in a fire adapted landscape.
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Researchers from CU Boulder and Front Range municipalities are studying grassland fuels and mitigation methods like grazing, burning, and mowing. Their goal is to understand how these methods impact plant diversity, soil health, and fire risk. By combining field observations, experimental management, and fire behavior modeling, they aim to identify the most effective strategies for maintaining healthy grasslands and reducing fire hazards.
Xcel is increasing outreach to help customers and stakeholders understand its role in reducing wildfire risk and the additional steps being taken. Learn and ask questions about the recently implemented safety practices and future strategies to enhance wildfire prevention, including safety-related outages.
