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Letting people know about shelters and Butte Fire Recovery info in general
Hi Folks,
How are people spreading the news about shelters, and other important Butte Fire updates? It’s so hard to reach people who have no power or phone. This has been a really big problem since the first day of the fire – when the power went out.
Our D2 Community Vision email list -emails are good for people who have Internet access, and even poor one bar cell access usually works for email. Emails are concise and searchable. Please share with more people. The easiest way for people to sign up for the D2 list is to email me korima@gmail.com
Facebook – People can’t get Facebook unless they have good Internet access – it doesn’t work with the poor cell reception in our area. There is pretty good info sharing there though confusing sometimes.
Websites – People can’t get websites on their cell phones in our area unless they have wifi. The cell reception is too poor. However, people can send info to the Calaveras County Butte Mountain website to be posted. I don’t see anything about the San Andreas Shelter on the Butte Fire website. The community needs info about where to send postings for the county Butte Fire website
Radio – KQBM 90.7 FM and KVGC 1340 AM – I’m not sure about the reception but they should definitely be notified? Dennis – does Red Cross put put press releases to them?
KQBM contact info info@kqbm.org 209-293-7300
KVGC contact info 209-223-1340 dave@kvgcradio.com or jim@kvgcradio.com
Nixle – I see the Sheriff’s office is stepping up use of Nixle – text messages work pretty well if there’s even one bar of cell reception. We should probably be promoting people to sign up for Nixle, and sending info to the Sheriff for broadcast.
Sign up for Nixle – https://local.nixle.com/
To ask them to post something to Nixle (like the shelter) call 209) 754-6500 or does someone have better contact info?
And signs – in the post offices for sure. I see signs in the Glencoe Post Office. I hope people are putting out info as best they can at all possible locations.
I think we all see this need to spread messages widely as possible – please use these resources and send others
Thank you all for all you are doing
Lynn Reinecke
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