- The down economy brings more clients and challenges to Beaches Emergency Assistance Ministry September 8, 2010Beaches Emergency Assistance Ministry volunteers help unload food donations to the Jacksonville Beach office several days a week. The amounts vary, from a bag or two of groceries, to a load of boxes of canned vegetables, fruit, meat and packages of rice and beans. Whatever arrives, they carry it into the pantry and arrange it on labeled shelves. But this sum […]Times-Union
- Jacksonville Beach makeup artist uses skills to help orphanage September 8, 2010Applying makeup is helping a Jacksonville Beach woman feed impoverished children in Africa. Paulina Perez, a well-known makeup artist in the Jacksonville area, heard about mission trips through her church. She started researching volunteer opportunities, and when she found one that helped an orphanage in South Africa, she fell in love with the idea. "An […]Times-Union
- Ponte Vedra Beach home invasion prompts police to urge people to lock doors September 8, 2010PONTE VEDRA BEACH - In a crime that has police urging people to make sure their doors are locked, a 22-year-old man was dragged out of bed last week and pistol whipped by two unknown men. The men had walked into the home through an open side garage door. The resident had just gone to bed Aug. 30 when the intruders entered his home in the first block of Macke […]Times-Union
Archive for January, 2010
Emergency Preparedness Help
January 11th, 2010 | 
Author: There are a lot of websites out there with information about being prepared for a natural disaster. The trick is to find good information from good resources. You should never have to pay for information about keeping you and your family safe. The City of Jacksonville has a Code Red Service that you can sign up for to get a phone call if a natural or even an unnatural events is about to happen in your neighborhood. We recommend this service, especially for the Beaches Residence, as the beaches is usually the first area that will get bad weather. This service also reports on other things as well including the following: evacuation notices, bio-terrorism alerts, boil water notices, and missing child reports. You can find out more information about Emergency Preparedness at the City of Jacksonville’s Fire and Rescue webpage: http://www.coj.net/Departments/Fire+and+Rescue/Emergency+Preparedness/default.htm
The City of Jacksonville Beach has the Firstcall Network for it’s citizens at: http://www.alertregistration.com/
It is another FREE service offered to Jacksonville Beaches Area residents to be informed by a phone call of immediate weather problems that will affect the residents. Of course, they also have a Hurricane Preparedness webpage as well at: http://www.jacksonvillebeach.org Check them out!
The City of Atlantic Beach Has the same information in it’s website as well. http://www.ci.atlantic-beach.fl.us/index.aspx?NID=154 They participate with the FirstCall network as well. They have other information about Flood zones, Hurricane Preparedness and much more for it’s residents. You decide which one you want to put in your bookmarks or favorites.
Basically, for residents in the Beaches are the best thing to do is prepare a Disaster Kit and have it ready for when you will need to evacuate. Being next to the ocean almost always means you and your family will need to leave for a period of time. To be on the safe side you should organize yourself and keep your family informed of your plan.
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