Resources to Support Wildfires Response and Recovery in Northern California

Posted by Marco Tamase on August 25th, 2020 Posted in: Announcements, Consumer Health, Emergency Preparedness and Response, NLM Products, Public Health

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On August 22, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the White House approved California’s request for a Presidential Major Disaster Declaration to bolster the state’s emergency response to wildfires burning in Northern California and support impacted residents in Lake, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma and Yolo counties. With assistance from NLM’s Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC), we compiled many resources to assist with response and recovery from the affected areas, including information guides with curated, reliable information from vetted federal, state, and local governments and organizations.

Key California Resources

• • California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) Incidents page
  • California Office of Emergency Services Statewide Wildfire Recovery Resources
  • Listos California – resources for vulnerable populations
  • State of California Power Outage and Fire Recovery Sources – includes information on shelters; health services; power shutoffs; transportation impacts, wildfire incidents; local and state resources
  • Public Safety Power Shutoffs: Resource Guide

Key National Resources

• Air Quality: AirNow from the Environmental Protection Agency (Search by Zip Code or State)

• Fire and Smoke Map
• Smoke Advisories

• American Red Cross Safe and Well
• CDC Going to a Public Disaster Shelter During the COVID-19 Pandemic / Ir a un refugio público para desastres durante la pandemia del COVID-19
• EPA Smoke Sense Study: A Citizen Science Project Using a Mobile App
• FEMA list of Declared Disasters

• • Search by Incident Type: Wildfire
    • California Czu Lightning Fire Complex
    • California Carmel Fire
    • California Lnu Lightning Fire Complex
    • California Jones Fire
    • California River Fire

• Healthcare Ready

• • Healthcare Ready RX Open: helps patients find nearby open pharmacies in areas impacted by disaster

• National Library of Medicine (NLM)

• Fires and Wildfires Information Guide
  • Content syndication—embed the content of this page on your own website, to get automatic updates and new resources.
  • Network of the National Library of Medicine, Pacific Southwest Region Syndicated page
• MedlinePlus Wildfires/ Incendios forestales
• NLM Coping with Disasters, Violence and Traumatic Events

• Disaster Distress Helpline (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)

• • Call 1-800-985-5990 toll-free, 24/7
  • Text TalkWithUs to 66746 to connect with a trained crisis counselor

Key Documents

Search NLM Disaster Lit database:

• General Wildfire search

• • Sample documents:
    • Evacuating Under Fire: Children with Special Healthcare Needs in Disaster

• • Power Outage and Infrastructure Failure search
  • • Sample documents:
  • • • ASPR TRACIE Topic Collection: Utility Failures
      • Cascading Effects and Escalations in Wide-Area Power Failures: A Summary for Emergency Planners (PDF)

  Social Media

  • YouTube:
    • Reset and Recharge: Taking Care of Our Mental Health in Uncertain Times
  • Twitter:
    • CAL FIRE
    • CA Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES)
    • California Wildfire Twitter List
    • Hashtags: #wildfires #cafire #cawx #RiverFire #CarmelFire #ButteLightningFire
  • Facebook:
    • Facebook Crisis Response Pages

We will continue to provide updates to this list as additional news and information about the California wildfires is received.