WILDFIRE EVACUATION COMMUNITY FORUM

May 8, 2011 (Ramona) -- It's Wildfire Awareness Week  in California and a quick -moving brush fire that threatened homes in Santee on Tuesday, May 3rd  is a reminder that Fire Season is upon us.  Your Sheriff’s Department  wants you to be ready so the Ramona Substation is holding a Wildfire Evacuation Community  Forum on Monday, May 16th  at the Ramona Library 1275 Main Street at 2:00 p.m. for the public.

Lt. Julie Sutton will discuss enhancements  on the reverse 911 system ,and how evacuation notices can now go out to a specific area. You can also learn about the improvements made since the 2007 wildfires and the county's Emergency Management  System or EMS so you can be better prepared in case of a wildfire. You can now email your questions to ramonaevacuationforum@sdsheriff.org so  they can be answered at  the forum. For more wildfire preparedness tips, visit http://1.usa.gov/lrA1zy.

The following will be present to answer questions at the public forum:

Supervisor Dianne Jacob ,  San Diego Country Estates Association , U.S. Forestry ,  Ramona Water District, CALFIRE,  Ramona School District,  CHP,  Ramona Chamber of Commerce , American Red Cross ,   Citizens Emergency Response Team ,  County Animal Control ,  and the Office of Emergency Services (OES)