Month: February 2021

Official information sources for  wildfires

Sign up for AlertSense, Lane County’s emergency alert system. It allows fire, police, and other emergency response agencies to issue alerts to residents in the event of severe weather, fire, flooding, hazardous materials, need for immediate evacuation, civil danger, local area emergencies, and missing persons. 

For information

on protecting your home, go to

The National Fire Prevention Association, https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Education

Egan Warming Centers need volunteers

The Egan Warming Center operates during cold weather months, November 15 to March 31 to ensure that people who have lost their housing have emergency shelter access during extreme cold weather. The Egan Warming Center is a coalition of community members representing service providers, nonprofits, faith and social activists communities and local government.??

Anyone interested is encouraged to join us in one of our upcoming Zoom or in-person orientations.

You’ll hear about the program, how it works, what volunteers do, what our COVID safety protocols are, and what it’s like helping in an emergency winter shelter. There are no obligations or long term commitments. Come see what Egan is all about!

Egan Warming Center Orientations Please email us at eganwarmingcenter@svdp.us to RSVP and get a link to a training.

Ways you can help

BE A BLOOD DONOR

Bloodworks NW provides 100% of the blood to Lane County.  Due to COVID-19, we have had to suspend all of our mobile drives (which means of 60% of our blood collections).

While we have established Pop-Up Donor Centers, we are not seeing the recovery of the 60% loss in blood collection. Additionally, hospital usage has increased by 20%!!?

Click here to find a pop-up donor site:

Find a Mobile Blood Drive

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