Kitsap Transit is reminding riders that, when it snows—like it might through Sunday—and road conditions become unsafe, they may activate Snow Routes and their Emergency Service Plan.

We've had a mild fall here on Bainbridge Island, but this week the weather is revving up and bringing us high winds, more rain, and then cold and snow toward the end of the week. That means power outages are likely

You can prepare your household for emergencies in one year by taking a few small steps each month. In January, make a communications plan.

The Bainbridge Prepares partnership is excited to announce Prepare in a Year 2024, a year-long participatory event for the entire community.

Every year since 2013, FEMA has conducted a survey on how well American households are prepared for disasters. The results for 2023 have just been released.

One of the very best things you can do in 2024 to prepare for emergencies is to take a Stop the Bleed (STB) class. In this class you’ll learn exactly what to do in a crisis when someone is bleeding heavily and will die without intervention.

The National Weather Service (NWS) just awarded Bainbridge Island with its TsunamiReady® and StormReady® designations. The designations mean the City has followed NWS guidelines for enhancing public safety in face of the likelihood of a post-earthquake tsunami reaching the island’s shores or of storm surges that affect the coastline.

More than 100 fun-loving BP volunteers crammed into the Senior Center event room Friday night, December 15, to celebrate preparedness, our prepared community, and, most important, one another.

BP founder Scott James, City of Bainbridge Island Emergency Management Coordinator Anne LeSage, and City Climate Mitigation Officer Autumn Salamack attended a seminar on resilience hubs at Seattle’s Centro de la Raza yesterday, December 12.

Instead of giving people things they don’t need this year, why not show them how much you care by giving them the gift of preparedness? There are tons of preparedness gifts to choose from, in a wide range of prices that can work as Hanukkah gifts, stocking stuffers, host gifts, and even presents for the entire family.

BP is announcing an exciting emergency preparedness program set up for 2024. Our goal is to get as many Islanders as possible prepared in 2024 for emergencies.

The National Weather Service (NWS) is forecasting 6 to 15 inches of mountain snow for today December 7 and tomorrow in the Olympics and Cascades above 3,000 feet, including all the passes. If you are planning on driving through the mountain passes, take a moment to prepare your vehicle for the weather.

It’s December and it’s raining cats and dogs and a few large farm animals as well. So what are you going to do to prepare for emergencies at such a time? Stay inside and look around! This is a good time to review everything you’ve done on this 12-month journey to prepare—and feel good about all that hard work. It’s also the time to make sure you haven’t missed anything.

People sometimes get confused about the Bainbridge Prepares (BP) partnership, thinking that the City funds our nonprofit, or that BP is the City, or that City Emergency Management Coordinator Anne LeSage does many of the things that, in fact, our own BP leadership does. Let’s take a moment to clarify this fantastic partnership that helps keep our community resilient.

If you live or spend time on the beaches or low-lying areas, be aware of high King Tides Tuesday and Wednesday mornings this week (11/28 and 29).

This year for Giving Tuesday, you can support Bainbridge Prepares’ Island Resilience Campaign, to make Bainbridge safer and more resilient through growing community-focused programs like our Child Reunification Center, neighborhood-based Disaster Hubs, Emergency Volunteer Flotilla, and more than 20 Disaster Preparedness teams.

Looking for ways to store water for emergencies? Local feed store Bay Hay and Feed now offers two excellent items to help you: water storage tanks and water stabilizer treatment.

Coincidentally, November features the work anniversaries of two of our favorite people: Loren Bast, our beloved executive director who makes miracles happen, and Anne LeSage, the multitasking wizard also known as Emergency Management Coordinator for the City of Bainbridge Island.

John Fossett, the adult services librarian at the Bainbridge Public Library, once attended a virtual preparedness summit at which a woman said, “If you can’t grow food in your community, you are not prepared.”

Sheltering in place is not something we have much reason to do in western Washington. But when we do, it is of utmost importance to do it right. Almost always, the occasion will be a chemical, biological, or radiological event.