The document discusses emergency preparedness efforts in the City of Seaside. It outlines the city's emergency preparedness meetings that are held monthly with department heads to discuss response scenarios. It also summarizes some major emergency events the city has dealt with in the past year. The document then describes various public awareness and preparedness programs the city has implemented, including a hotel keycard program with tsunami safety information, including an evacuation map in the city's visitor guide, installing "You are here" maps around town, an emergency preparedness 5K run/walk, and a takeover option on the city's website to quickly post emergency information.

1. When Disaster Strikes
HOW TO BE PREPARED FOR ANYTHING THAT COMES YOUR WAY
JON RAHL | CITY OF SEASIDE

2. General Emergency
Preparedness
ØCity of Seaside Emergency Prep Meetings
Ø4th Thursday of every month
ØAll Seaside department heads
Ø Topics covered include: Social Response Scenarios, Map
Development, Emergency Exercises, Awareness Campaigns
and Debriefs.
ØCity of Seaside Emergency Operations Meetings
Ø2nd Tuesday of every month
ØAll Seaside department heads
Ø Topics covered include scenarios and response situations for
severe weather flooding, fires, hazardous materials, terrorism,
earthquakes, tsunamis an even volcanic activity scenarios.

3. Major events over the past year in Seaside
Ø4th of July Power Outage
ØHood to Coast Storm and Shutdown of Seaside Beach
ØThree-Alarm Fire, destroying three homes and threatening a hotel on
December 6, 2015
ØLine of duty death of Seaside Police Sergeant Jason Goodding on
February 5, 2016
ØIn three of these scenarios, the city deployed its emergency operations
teams
Ø Active fact gathering
Ø Alerting media and posting to social media
Ø Preparing statements, speaking to the media and drafting press releases
Ø Hosting press conferences when necessary

4. Tourism and Emergency
Awareness
1. Development of a Hotel Keycard Envelope Program | Use of Fire
Marshall to Distribute
2. New branding, new visitor guide and the implementation of Tsunami
Evacuation Map in all 100,000 copies of our Annual Visitor Guide
3. “You are here” maps throughout Seaside at prominent location
4. Emergency Preparedness Runs in Seaside
5. New website with feature that enables us to quickly post updates
that takeover our homepage and can assist with awareness for
people searching for news on our community.

5. Material Examples
#1. Hotel Key Card Program Program Facts
1. 52,000 Printed via OEM Grant
2. Distributed to all area
properties wishing to
participate in the program.
3. Utilized Fire Marshall to
distribute and help spread
the word
4. Included FAQs for visitors and
front-line staff.

6. Material Examples
#2. Seaside Visitor Guide Program Facts
1. 100,000 Annual Guides
Printed
2. Inclusion of Tsunami
Evacuation Map using
new branding versus
typical government map.
3. Goal to be more up front
with facts as opposed to
try and hide from
potential event.
OFFICIAL
2016 VISITOR
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#seasideOR
seasideOR.com 888.306.2326
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seaside tsunami evacuation map
1 If you feel an earthquake
Drop, cover and hold. After the
earthquake, don’t wait for an official
warning, head immediately ON
FOOT out of the tsunami inundation
zone. (It is estimated you’ll have 20
minutes to reach higher ground.)
2 Where to go?
Locate which zone you’re in on the
map, and follow that evacuation route
to the designated assembly area.
(Note: some of the bridges highlighted
on the map may be difficult to cross
after an earthquake, but these are the
recommended routes at this time.)
3 Stay in the assembly area
Remain in the assembly area
until you’re instructed otherwise.
Aftershocks and tsunami waves are
expected to continue for hours
after the initial event.

7. Material Examples
#3. “You are Here” signs Program Facts
1. 14 signs places around town
2. State/County/City cooperation to
fund the project.
3. Worked with City Planner to
review placement through eyes of
visitors and where they could best
serve the individual that may not
know their way around town.
4. We’ve had no negative comments
about these signs. They’ve been
well received.

8. Material Examples
#4. Seaside Dash to Safety, Saturday April 30th
Program Facts
1. First 5K Run/Walk centered on the idea of
emergency preparedness
2. Using emergency warning system to serve as a
“starter” for the race. A second shorter race
will run concurrently with 5K from different
location.
3. Day is culminating with a four-hour safety fair
at the location of the race finish line.

9. Material Examples
#5. Takeover Option on New Website
Program Facts
1. Allows us to post advisory
message in a matter of
moments in case of emergency
or need.
2. Will appear on home page but
can be closed by user.
3. Option to also include photos
and web links as necessary.
4. Recognized need because of
our visibility on search for
anything Seaside.

10. Thank you!
Jon Rahl
City of Seaside Visitors Bureau and Convention Center
jrahl@cityofseaside.us
(503) 738-3097