211 Connecting Point Contact Center provides information about disaster preparedness.

• Listos California Disaster Preparedness Information
• Resources - Listos California has free materials in many languages that you can use and share to promote disaster preparedness in your home and community. Find documents such as the Disaster Ready Guide and First Aid Kit for Your Mind.
• Disaster Directories by County - 58 Disaster Directories for each California county, with information to help highly vulnerable populations get ready for wildfires, earthquakes, floods and power shutoffs.
• Hazard Maps - These show the risks of earthquakes, wildfires, and floods by county.
  
  

Web pages

• Home - https://211connectingpoint.org/
• Listos California Disaster Preparedness Information - https://www.listoscalifornia.org/
• Resources - https://www.listoscalifornia.org/resources/
• Disaster Ready Guide - https://www.listoscalifornia.org/resources/?group=disaster-ready-guide
• First Aid Kit for Your Mind - https://www.listosc…

The 211 Connecting Point Contact Center provides a web page with information about extreme heat resources.

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• Home - https://211connectingpoint.org/
• Extreme Heat Resources - https://211connectingpoint.org/extreme-heat-resources/

The 211 Connecting Point Contact Center provides a web page with information about winter weather resources.

Web pages

• Home - https://211connectingpoint.org/
• Winter Weather Resources - https://211connectingpoint.org/2023-2024-winter-weather-resources/

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Connecting Point offers free community classes on life skills, work skills, health & wellness, and more.

Classes may include:

• Caregiver Essentials
• Confident Dementia Caregiver
• CPR and First Aid
• Nutrition
• Making Healthcare Decisions-Advance Directives and POLST Forms
• Ready Set Safe-Preparing for Disaster
• Stress Busters
  
  

Web pages

• Home - https://connectingpoint.org/
• Community Classes - https://connectingpoint.org/cp-classes/

Code RED offers notifications to county residents in case of emergencies or other critical community situations requiring alerts. Alerts may be received by means of text, email, landline, cell phone, and TTY. CodeRED is a product of the company called OnSolve. All Nevada County residents are encouraged to sign up. Alerts are sent to evacuation zones that are affected by an incident. To find you evacuation zone number, enter address at Genasys Protect.

Online Sign-up for Alerts
Online form allows users to create a MANAGED account with a username and password which allows them to update their own info.

Assistance Signing Up for Alerts
211 Connecting Point does Code Red sign-ups for UNMANAGED accounts (accounts without a username and password). Unmanaged accounts are also known as Guest accounts.

Support
IMPORTANT: OES and 211 cannot access Code RED accounts. If people have questions, including any of the following, they need to call OnSolve Code Red Customer service at 866-939-0911, Mon-Fri,…

PSPS is a Public Safety Power Shutoff event. Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) may do a PSPS when danger of wildfires is high. PSPS Care Coordination is a program to help PG&E customers who have health and medical needs that require electricity.

Care Coordination helps to get a plan in place for resources that can be used during a PSPS power outage event. Callers will receive a follow up call from Connecting Point staff so they can create their plan. The care coordination call will typically take 30-45 minutes.

Who qualifies?

Those who have access & functional needs, and/or are electricity dependent during a power outage (examples include medical equipment or medications that rely on power, accessibility equipment that relies on power, etc).

What is Care Coordination?

Care Coordination helps you create a safety plan by providing information about what to do before, during, and after a power outage. The Care Coordinator can help you:

• Build a list of emergency contacts and you…

The Nevada City Fire Department responds to structure fires, emergency medical incidents, rescues, hazardous materials incidents, automobile fires, and wildland fires.

Web pages

• Nevada City Fire Department - https://www.nevadacityca.gov/pview.aspx?id=20712&catid=564

In the event of disaster, Nevada County Office of Emergency Services recommends the following trusted information sources (aka trusted news sources).

Trusted information sources, per Ready Nevada County's "Ready, Set, Go" Guide:

• 211 Connecting Point, 2-1-1 or 1-833-DIAL211, 211ConnectingPoint.org
• CHP Grass Valley, 530-477-4900
• County of Nevada, 530-265-1218, MyNevadaCounty.com
• County of Nevada Office of Emergency Services, 530-265-1515, ReadyNevadaCounty.org
• Sierra Sun, SierraSun.com
• The Union, TheUnion.com
• YubaNet, YubaNet.com
• KNCO 830AM, KNCO.com
• KOH 780AM, KKOH.com
• KTKE 101.5 FM, TruckeeTahoeRadio.com
• KVMR 89.5 FM & 105.1 FM, KVMR.org
• Nevada County Media, NevadaCountyMedia.org, Channel 17 (Comcast & Suddenlink)
• Tahoe Truckee Media, https://ttctv.org/

This list also appears in the Ready, Set, Go! Handbook on page 31 of the paper guide and page 34 of the PDF. Links to English and Spanish below.

Web pages

• English Handbook - 
  https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/4…

The County of Nevada Green Waste Disposal web page provides green waste disposal information. There are occasional free green waste disposal days in east and west county. Dates, times, and locations are announced when information for the events is finalized.

​Web pages

• Home - https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/2775/Green-Waste-Disposal

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The Office of Emergency Services offers no-cost sand for Nevada County residents every year between November 1st and April 30th.

Sand is available on a first-come-first-served basis, while supplies last. Residents are advised to please bring their own sandbags and only take what is needed.

Sandbags are available for purchase online or at various local businesses such as:

• B&C Hardware
• A to Z Supply
• Hills Flat Lumber Co.
  

Pick-Up Locations

Sand is available at the following locations:

• Next to the Nevada County Warehouse located at: the corner of Highway 49 and East Broad Street, Nevada City, CA 95959
• Penn Valley Fire Protection District is located at: 10513 Spenceville Road, Penn Valley, CA 95946
• North San Juan Community Hall located at: 10057 Reservoir Street, North San Juan, CA 95960
• Higgins Fire Department located at: 10106 Combie Road, Auburn, CA 95602
  
  

Web pages

• Home - https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/1240/Sand-Sandbags-Available