Salt Lake City Emergency Management

🏠 Join Salt Lake City Emergency Management & the American Red Cross to learn the basics of setting up and running a disaster shelter. You will learn the basics of opening, organizing, operating, and closing a disaster shelter using real world scenarios and checklists. ✅

Salt Lake City Emergency Management will be hosting a Stop the Bleed course to teach our community the skills needed to save a life. Join us for a fun and interactive evening where you will learn about bleeding control techniques, including tourniquet usage, wound packing, and bandaging. This class is FREE to community members. Register now to save your spot!

The class will include bandaging and torniquet placement practice, but participants are not required to complete the hands-on practice. To request ADA accommodations, please contact the City ADA Manager at [email protected].

Yesterday morningjust before 8 a.m., Evanston, Wyoming was the epicenter of a 4.7 magnitude earthquake. Even though this is not considered a “large” earthquake, the shakes from this quake were felt throughout Wyoming and northern Utah. Thankfully, no injuries or damages have been reported at this time.

However, the Wasatch Mountains reside along a 240-mile-long fault zone, meaning that it’s likely an earthquake of similar magnitude could occur in Salt Lake City.

We encourage everyone to have an emergency kit available that will sustain each person in a household for up to 96 hours. The following items are what FEMA suggests you keep in your 96-hour kit:

• Non-perishable food
• Water (one gallon per person, per day)
• Battery-powered radio and/or a NOAA weather radio
• Flashlight
• First aid kit
• Extra clothes for winter
• Medications
• Pet food & water (include their medications and copies of their vaccinations)
• Manual can opener
• Local maps
• Cell phone charger and backup batteries
• Personal hygiene kit
• Cash
• Sleeping bags/warm blankets
• Matches
• Books, games, & puzzles (great for little ones)

You can find more information on how to build your kit by going to www.slc.gov/em

Salt Lake City CERT is excited to announce the 2025 Fall Preparedness Conference on October 25th!

Join us for engaging breakout sessions and a disaster simulation. This event is open to anyone who is interested in disaster preparedness. Register here: https://www.givepulse.com/event/648100-fall-preparedness-conference

📋 September is National Preparedness Month — and there’s no better time to ask: Are you ready?

Emergencies like earthquakes, wildfires, floods, and severe storms can happen without warning. Salt Lake City Emergency Management is here to help you get prepared — because the more ready you are, the safer you’ll be while first responders work their way to you.

Preparedness isn’t just about having an emergency kit (though that’s important!). It’s also about knowing what to do before, during, and after a disaster.

Here’s how to get started:
🔹 Make an emergency plan with your family, roommates, or coworkers
🔹 Build a 96-hour kit with food, water, meds, flashlights, chargers & more
🔹 Practice your plan so everyone knows what to do when it matters
🔹 Get trained — CPR, Stop the Bleed, CERT, and other free courses
🔹 Get involved in your neighborhood’s preparedness efforts

Prepared people create stronger, safer communities — and that starts with you.

Learn more at BeReadySLC.com and Ready.gov.

The fire in Millcreek yesterday left upwards of 41 people displaced and in great need.

While most urgent needs have been met, in-kind donations would be greatly appreciated, particularly for those who have tragically lost their homes.

The City of Millcreek is collecting donations at Millcreek City Hall (1330 E Chambers Avenue).

They will be collecting donations:
July 26 from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.,

July 27 from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.,

Monday, July 28 through Friday, August 1 from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Specific needs are being identified. But the donations needed most include: clothing, hygiene items (such as soap, shampoo, toothpaste, and sanitary products), and household goods (such as kitchenware, toilet paper, and cleaning products).

Monetary donations can be made http://bit.ly/millcreekfirehelp