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SERVICES. RESOURCES. COMMUNITY.
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Prepare your household for fire weather and learn six critical steps for disaster readiness. Register for classes held on February 27, March 1, 12, 22, April 3, 26.
 Join fellow Berkeleyans for in-person and virtual hour-long classes to help your household prepare for fire weather and other disasters.
We’re offering two classes, each offered on multiple dates:
- Create a plan to guide your household’s decisions when fire risk is high.
- Learn six critical steps to do in a disaster and what supplies to gather to be ready for emergencies.
Preparing for disasters will increase your confidence and ability to protect your household while building connections with your neighbors and local emergency services.
Created by the Berkeley Fire Department’s Office of Emergency Services, this series of classes is offered starting February 27 and will conclude on April 26.
Use the hyperlinked event pages below to register for these fire weather and disaster preparedness classes.
Create your household fire weather plan with City guidance
Wildfires are now more frequent, destructive, and fast-moving than ever. A Household Fire Weather Plan will help you make important decisions before fire weather starts, including:
- Deciding to leave your home
- Choosing where you will go
- Planning multiple evacuation routes
- Identifying who you can ask for help
- Learning what items to pack in your go-bag
This interactive class lets you share experiences with fellow community members, helps you answer key preparedness questions, and guides you in creating a plan to keep your family safe during fire season.
Join us in person or virtually for Fire Weather Plan classes:
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Virtual meeting on Zoom
Thursday, February 27, 2025, 7:00 pm–8:00 pm
Register
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North Branch Library
Saturday, March 1, 2025, 11:00 am–12:00 pm
1170 The Alameda
Berkeley, CA 94707
Register
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Claremont Branch Library
Saturday, March 22, 2025, 3:00 pm–4:00 pm
2940 Benvenue Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705
Register
Learn six critical steps to disaster preparedness
The City's Office of Emergency Services created six key steps you can easily apply to disaster planning at low cost with little time commitment. These steps will help you prepare for emergencies by making a plan and gathering supplies to help you stay safe and recover after disasters.
Join us in person or virtually for six critical steps to disaster preparedness classes:
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Virtual meeting on Zoom
Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 7:00 pm–8:00 pm
Register
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West Branch Library
Thursday, April 3, 2025, 6:00 pm–7:00 pm
1125 University Ave
Berkeley, CA 94702
Register
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Tarea Hall Pitman South Branch Library
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
1901 Russell St
Berkeley, CA 94703
Register
To request disability-related accommodations to participate in these classes, please contact the ADA Program Coordinator at (510) 981-6418 (V) or (510) 891-6347 (TDD) at least 72 hours before the meeting.
To learn about more preparedness classes, subscribe to the Berkeley Ready Newsletter for monthly emails.
Taking disaster preparedness classes helps you take control before emergencies happen. Through these courses, you’ll connect with staff from the Berkeley Fire Department as well as neighbors—all while gaining valuable skills to keep you, your household, and your community ready.
Register for either or both of these fire weather and disaster preparedness classes.
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Learn how to use the City’s emergency map to quickly see how neighborhoods, including your own, may be directed to evacuate, shelter in place, or take other protective action.
When possible, the City will also use the map to identify evacuation routes, road closures, shelters, or other critical information to guide you to your next step.
This dynamic map is used in real-time by Berkeley’s first responders—firefighters, police officers, paramedics, and other emergency personnel—to connect the public with the most immediate information available.
The map can be viewed at the address level and includes key landmarks, such as schools and parks. You can enter your address to quickly see the current emergency status for your home, work, school, or other important locations.
Know how to find information for locations you care about—no need to memorize specific zone numbers. Zone numbers may change to adapt to a rapidly evolving emergency.
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 Take advantage of seasonal City programs to dispose of excess vegetation, use a checklist to self-inspect your property and, in the highest risk areas, use personalized inspection reports to help guide you on how to create buffer zones – which vary in size depending on your particular threat of wildfire
Creating buffer zones not only help prevent wildfire spread but also gives firefighters defensible space to better protect your home.
This defensible space – which should be at least 5 feet around a home anywhere in Berkeley – can be created by regularly removing dead plants, leaves, and other flammable materials from around a property. Trim and properly space trees and plants.
Residents in Hill Zones 2 and 3 – which can stretch as far west as Colusa Avenue, The Alameda, Spruce Street and College Avenue are required to keep 100 feet of buffer space around their homes to help prevent wildfires and keep their property safe.
By using the seasonal City programs to help dispose of excess vegetation – or doing it on your own – you’ll not only better protect your home, but you’ll play a part in strengthening the resiliency of your entire neighborhood from wildfire.
Read more at berkeleyca.gov.
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 Make sure each member of your household signs up for their own AC Alert account to receive alerts during an emergency.
Include phone numbers, email addresses, and locations of interest, like your home, work, and children’s school addresses, to get critical emergency information.
By signing up for AC Alert, which is used across Alameda County, you will receive important information about protective actions to take during emergencies, including extreme fire weather, evacuations, or orders to shelter-in-place.
AC Alert will also be used in Berkeley to guide people on how to use our evacuation map and provide details when the city’s Outdoor Warning System is in effect.
Read more at berkeleyca.gov.
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