Cascadia, Oregon · Emergency Management

The first responder is your neighbor.

Join the muster. We will show you where you are needed, train you for the role, and hand you what you need to be ready when the call goes out.

The black frame is you. Every empty frame is a neighbor we have not met yet.

Emergency preparedness kits
Alert sign-up
Evacuation maps
Training courses
Volunteer registration

01 — The roll

The plan is only as strong as the people who show up.

These are the roles that hold a town together when the power goes out. Pick the one that fits you, and we will train you for it.

01 Volunteer The call goes out to the list. You knock on doors, staff a table, carry water, and check on the neighbors nobody has heard from.
02 Trainer Teach the courses: what to do in the first hour, how to build a go-bag, and how to walk out calmly with kids and pets in tow.
03 Block captain Be the person your street already knows how to find. You keep the local list current and make sure the quiet houses get a knock.
04 Kit packer Assemble the preparedness kits that go home with households across Cascadia. Everything is packed locally, by people on this roll.
05 Map steward Walk the routes. Mark what has changed. Keep the evacuation maps true to the streets they describe, block by block.

Cascadia does not get prepared by itself. It gets prepared by us.

Add your name to the roll

02 — Supplies for the muster

Kits by the door. Alerts on your phone.

Preparedness is a bag you can carry and a message you will actually see. Take one, take both, and put your name on the roll while you are here.

Volunteers packing emergency kits into orange bags at a long table in a community hall

Emergency preparedness kits

A kit is a decision you make in advance. Tell us who you are preparing for — a household, a car, a classroom — and we will help you put together the one that fits.

Kit packing is a role on the roll — see it

Request a preparedness kit

03 — Know the way out

Train once. Walk out calm.

Courses are short, local and practical. Come on your own, or bring the whole street with you.

01 Sign up for a course Pick a session near your neighborhood. Households, streets and workplaces all welcome.
02 Walk the route Learn what to do in the first hour, what belongs in a go-bag, and how to get out on foot in the dark.
03 Take it home Leave with a plan on paper, an evacuation route you know by heart, and your role on the roll.

A facilitator demonstrating a home emergency kit to a seated circle of residents — A training evening

Two people tracing an evacuation route on a paper map spread across a car hood — Route planning

A volunteer handing a preparedness kit to a resident at an open front door — A kit, hand to hand

04 — Add your name

Add your name to the roll.

Tell us how to reach you and where you would like to help. We will follow up with training dates, your kit, and the evacuation map for your street.