CodeRED provides emergency notifications for Nevada County residents via text, email, landline, cell phone, and TTY. Alerts are sent to specific evacuation zones. All residents are encouraged to sign up.

Sign-Up Options

• Managed Accounts: Create an account to update contact information anytime. Sign up here.
• Guest Accounts: Contact 211 Connecting Point for assistance with registration.

Need Help?

• For account issues, call OnSolve CodeRED Support: 866-939-0911 (Mon-Fri, 5am-3pm PT) or email crsupport@onsolve.com.
• Find your evacuation zone: Genasys Protect & Nevada County Evacuation Zones.

Tips for Receiving Alerts

• Add these numbers to your contacts:
  • Emergency Alerts: 866-419-5000
  • General Alerts: 855-969-4636
• Learn how to bypass "Do Not Disturb" mode on your phone for emergency calls.

Web pages

• Home - https://public.coderedweb.com/CNE/en-US/CA8B57E20D17
• Sign Up - https://public.coderedweb.com/cne/en-US/CA8B57E20D17
• Genasys Project - https://protect.genasys.com/search
• Nevada County Evacuation Z…

Placer Alerts uses Everbridge, a community notification system, to inform residents in Placer, Sacramento, and/or Yolo counties of emergency events and other important public safety information.

Also known as the Regional Mass Notification System, Placer Alerts provides info from Auburn Police Department, Lincoln Police Department, Placer County Sheriff's Office, Rocklin Police Department, Roseville Police Department, and the Placer County Office of Emergency Services.

Sign up for Placer Alerts online. You can download the Everbridge mobile app to receive notifications through your smartphone. It also includes a map where you can search for current alerts in your vicinity.

About evacuation zones

• Placer County creates evacuation zones in response to specific incidents to help precisely manage evacuations. There are no established evacuation zones.
• Nevada County has established evacuation zones. Alerts are sent to evacuation zones that are affected by an incident. To find you evacuation zone…

Tahoe Alerts provides an interactive web map that allows residents and visitors in all counties surrounding Lake Tahoe to find out which county they are in and which emergency alert system to sign up for.

People can enter an address, click on the map, or click “Use current location” to find out. California counties are Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, and Alpine. State of Nevada counties are Douglas, Carson City, and Washoe.

211 Connecting Point serves Nevada and Placer Counties. Nevada County uses CodeRed and Placer County uses Placer Alerts/Everbridge. The TahoeAlerts website will direct people to the appropriate emergency alert system for their location.

About evacuation zones

• Nevada County has established evacuation zones. Alerts are sent to evacuation zones that are affected by an incident. To find you evacuation zone number, enter address at Genasys Protect.
  
• Placer County creates evacuation zones in response to specific incidents to help precisely manage evacuations. There are no establish…

Cecil Construction, Inc provides emergency home services 24/7/365 to Grass Valley, California residents and the surrounding Sierra Nevada Foothills areas. The company has a number of Emergency Response Crews that are fully equipped with everything they need from trucks to tarps to ladders to sealants to mitigate further damage to property. They can also do residential and commercial interior and exterior painting. Cecil Construction is a member of the nonprofit Nevada County Contractors' Association.

Please note: Contractors charge fees for service. At this time there is no established low or no cost organization doing this kind of work in Nevada County.

Cecil Construction, Inc can help with:

• Wind damage
• Water damage/dry outs/extraction
• Fire and smoke damage
• Mold damage
• Tree removal
• Board-ups/Roof Tarping
• Structure Cleaning
• Contents pack out and storage
• Contents cleaning
• Contents Inventory

Web pages

• Home - https://cecilconstruction.com/

• Provides educational information on how to get through a disaster
• Helps with local and state emergency preparedness
• Coordinates federal response to a disaster

• FEMA home - https://www.fema.gov/
• FEMA California - https://www.fema.gov/locations/contact/california#contact-and-about
• Contact - all regions - https://www.fema.gov/about/contact

In the event of a disaster, the Ready Nevada County dashboard will display real-time data on the Ready Nevada County Dashboard.

The Nevada County Office of Emergency Services (OES) coordinates with County departments, municipalities, key stakeholders, and special districts to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to, and recover from all disasters.

Ready Nevada County is an effort coordinated by OES to raise awareness and mobilize the community to prevent and prepare for wildfires.

2024 READY, SET, GO! Handbook - English

2024 ¡PREPARADOS, LISTOS, A EVACUAR! Manual

​Web pages

• Home - http://www.mynevadacounty.com/1182/Office-of-Emergency-Services
• Ready Nevada County Dashboard - https://nevcounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=dfae8e3b36e3455bbf9dcc865349e72e
• Preparedness Toolkit - https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/2792/Preparedness-Toolkit
• About OES - https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/1241/About
• Community Resources - https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/3517/211-Community-Resources
• 2024 REA…

Placer County’s Environmental Health monitors and enforces public health and environmental safety standards throughout Placer County.

Services include:

• Inspections of restaurants, food vendors, grocery stores, and mobile food operations
• Oversight of public swimming pools, spas, and body art facilities
• Regulation of hazardous materials storage and waste disposal at commercial sites
• Permits and inspections for septic systems and water wells
• Supervision of small public water systems
• Response to complaints about sewage leaks, substandard housing, chemical spills, and food poisoning
• Environmental cleanup coordination after wildfires, including hazardous materials advisories and Right of Entry permits for debris or tree removal

Web pages

• Home - https://www.placer.ca.gov/3105/Environmental-Health
• Permits, forms, & fees - https://www.placer.ca.gov/3245/Permits-Forms-Fees
• Complaints & complaint forms
  • Complaints - https://www.placer.ca.gov/3107/Complaints
  • Online complaint for…

Environmental Health provides health and safety oversight for food, water, hazardous materials, and wildfire-related recovery in eastern Placer County.

Services include:

• Inspection of restaurants, food trucks, grocery stores, caterers, and community food vendors
• Monitoring of public swimming pools, spas, and body art facilities
• Oversight of landfills, transfer stations, and waste tire storage sites
• Regulation of hazardous materials at gas stations and vehicle repair shops
• Approval of water well and septic system installations
• Coordination of contaminated site cleanup
• Support for small public water systems
• Investigation of complaints involving foodborne illness, sewage exposure, garbage, chemical spills, and substandard housing
• Wildfire recovery support, including hazard advisories and debris removal declarations

Tahoe-area short-term rental nuisance complaints above 5,000 feet elevation are handled through the Host Compliance Hotline or online portal.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.placer.…

Feeding The Foothills feeds the hungry through its network of partner agencies, educating the community about hunger, and advocating for hunger relief.

To see the most up-to-date schedule of public food distributions:

• Go to the Get Food Assistance page.
• On the right side of the page click on the clipboard icon with text that says "List of Food Distribution Agencies"

Food distributions are provided through agencies in El Dorado, Nevada, and Placer counties.

Feeding The Foothills also hosts FREE Drive-Thru Food Distributions (formerly Free Farmers Markets).

Web pages

• Home - https://feedingthefoothills.org/
• Get Food Assistance - https://feedingthefoothills.org/get-food/

Finding Loved Ones After A Disaster

When people are in American Red Cross (ARC) care at shelters, ARC observes strict confidentiality, so will not release names of clients.

• Tips for finding loved ones
  
  

Web pages

• Home - http://www.redcross.org/ca/sacramento
• Tips for Finding Loved Ones - https://www.redcross.org/get-help/disaster-relief-and-recovery-services/contact-and-locate-loved-ones.html