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Join NERT Program Coordinator Lt. Erica Arteseros and Advisory Board Member Lynn Jacklevich as they guide us through the 2012 City Wide Nert Activation Drill held at Everett Middle School in San Francisco. Everett Middle School – San Francisco, CA View Larger Map

By Kristin Hogan, SF DEM Last week the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) opened Safe Enough to Stay, an exhibit for the public that teaches us what steps we should take to make San Francisco a Resilient City. Within the exhibit is a recreation of a San Francisco apartment, which allows visitors to experience what living in a retrofitted home after a major earthquake might be like, along with recommendations [...]

Steve Heide & Bernard Medeiros were recognized for their dedication to keeping their neighborhood clean of graffiti. Steve and Bernard wake up every morning to walk the streets in an attempt to locate and remove graffiti on public and private property. They have been at it for over six years and we congratulate them for their hard work.   If you know a resident (or two) who work hard to [...]

What’s in Your Preparedness Kit? from NENtv on Vimeo. San Francisco is likely to experience a major earthquake in the next few decades. Smart residents have their preparedness kits ready for the big event. NENtv’s Tanya Vlach catches up with San Francisco resident Judi Dito to ask “What’s in your preparedness kit?” For more information about how to get started on your preparedness kit, see the NERT Resources page. [Video also [...]

The San Francisco Department of Public Works’s Deputy Director, Mohammed Nuru, was awarded the Most Empowering City Employee Award for his dedication to San Francisco’s neighborhoods and years of work in preserving and maintaining San Francisco’s urban space. “Mr. Nuru is the go-to person in the City of SF for infrastructure projects. If you need a fence, sign or bus stop fix, Mr. Nuru can help you get it done,” [...]

The explosion and fire in San Bruno, CA devastated a small section of this peninsula city on September 9th. It literally rocked this normally peaceful community, registering the explosion as a 1.1 magnitude earthquake at USGS. Witnesses reported the initial blast “had a wall of fire more than 1000 feet high.” First responders were on the scene quickly, but it took scores of fire engines that waged an all-night battle, [...]

Preparedness training + A Preparedness kit = Ready for the next earthquake! NERT – or Neighborhood Emergency Response Team – a free training program for individuals, neighborhood groups, and community-based organizations in San Francisco, is one of the city’s most effective preparedness organizations. NERT’s Lt. Erica Arteseros explains more about NERT and how to start getting your home’s preparedness kit together.

I had the honor of being in New Orleans during the days that led up to the 5th anniversary of one of America’s great man-made disasters. It’s important to know that folks in this great town don’t blame the hurricane that struck with such vengeance, but rather the under-engineered levees that ringed the neighborhoods that buckled in response to the surge of water they were designed to handle. Out of [...]

As a San Francisco resident and the Deputy Director for Operations at SF Department of Public Works, I’ve seen the city look clean and beautiful and I’ve experienced San Francisco at points where we all need to get our act together and do something different. During these challenging economic times, when resources are thin, to keep the city looking the best that it can look, we are asking everyone to step [...]

The Middle Polk neighborhood has come a long way in the past few years, thanks in part to the dedication of resident Dawn Trennert. Dawn explains to NENfm the spark that jumpstarted her activism and how community clean-up events can be great ways to introduce neighbors to each other. Episode length: 19:41 Download this episode (right click and save) Show Information Guest: Dawn Trennert Neighborhood: Middle Polk, San Francisco Related [...]