Tiburon, Belvedere officials expand disaster planning with new preparedness videos, volunteer medical team

Tiburon Peninsula emergency officials are launching a new series of preparedness videos and seeking residents to appear in them, while plans are taking shape in Belvedere for a volunteer medical team to assist in a disaster.

At the Belvedere-Tiburon Emergency Preparedness Council’s April 21 meeting, Laurie Nilsen, administrative services and Emergency Operations Center coordinator for the Tiburon Police Department, said the videos are intended to repackage the area’s longer preparedness presentations into shorter segments people are more likely to watch.

The videos will cover topics including “how to build a go bag, how to turn off your gas, how to shelter in place and have a good kit at home,” Nilsen said. She told the council the Belvedere-Tiburon Library is helping lead the effort. About 12 topics have been identified for the series, with the potential to expand.

Belvedere City Councilmember Jane Cooper said the city’s preparedness group, Be Ready Belvedere, is working to organize a volunteer medical team — physicians, nurses, emergency medical technicians and other health professionals living on the peninsula — to assist residents in a disaster that prevents evacuation.

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