The County of Sonoma, Department of Emergency Management will conduct community-specific evacuation exercises throughout the County and invite Sonoma County residents to participate.

These exercises will provide public safety departments an opportunity to practice alerting an area using the Hi-Lo sirens, test the County alerting system, and residents can practice evacuating and leaving their neighborhood area.

There are two exercises planned for 2021:

• Fitch Mountain, scheduled for Saturday, June 5
• Camp Meeker/Occidental, scheduled for Saturday, June 19

Why: The purpose of this exercise is to familiarize residents with local designated routes for evacuation; safely practice evacuating residents using those routes; exercise our SoCo Alert system to notify participating residents and facilitate residents to register for the County’s alerting system.

When: Saturday, June 5th from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00am PDT

Where: Fitch Mountain Community

Who: Permanent and seasonal residents of the Fitch Mountain Community

If you are a resident and would like to participate in the drill:

• Registration has now closed.
• Registration is required in order to receive the alert for the exercise and fully participate (the contact information you provide will be for this community exercise only).
• Registration period will end on Thursday, June 3rd (two days prior to the event) so please make sure you register on time!