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Clackamas County Disaster Management
Newsletter June 2025
Greetings from the Clackamas County Disaster Management Team!
We are now launching a quarterly newsletter, with June as our first issue!
In This Newsletter Edition:
- Director's Note
- Wildfire Preparedness
- Evacuation Planning
- #ClackGoPrepared Campaign
- Trainings and Exercises
Director's Note
Text from Daniel
Spring Into Safety
Clackamas County Hosts Wildfire Evacuation Exercise Series with Local and Regional Partners
As wildfire season approaches, Clackamas County and its regional partners took coordinated steps to strengthen community readiness. Through a three-day Wildfire Evacuation Exercise Series held this spring, more than 40 departments and agencies across local, state, and federal levels came together to rehearse, evaluate, and enhance their wildfire evacuation response capabilities.
- Day 1: Evacuations, Alert & Warning
- Day 2: Emergency Operations Center Activation
- Day 3: Public Information and Joint Information System Operations
This exercise series brought together a diverse mix of responders and support agencies—from fire districts and emergency managers to utility companies, law enforcement, and communications teams. Participating organizations included Clackamas Fire, the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office, National Weather Service, Portland General Electric, Oregon Department of Forestry, and many other critical partners.
The series not only examined operational coordination but also strengthened the relationships and shared understanding that form the backbone of regional disaster response. Through scenario-based collaboration, Clackamas County and its partners advanced their preparedness posture and reaffirmed their commitment to protecting lives, property, and natural resources during fire season.
#ClackGo PreparedEvacuation Planning
Recent disasters have highlighted the need for predefined evacuation zones to be used in emergencies to quickly delineate and communicate evacuation levels, avoiding the need to define new evacuation level boundaries in reaction to an emergency. To respond to this need, the County has identified and refined evacuation zones and routes as part of an all-hazard approach to evacuation planning.
Clackamas County Disaster Management is in the third and final phase of Evacuation Planning, focused on community engagement and a public communication campaign. This portion of the project aims to gather information about how Clackamas County residents are seeking information, the best ways to share time sensitive information with them, and attitudes toward disaster preparedness.
Clackamas County Disaster Management will share this evacuation preparedness information with the public as part of a campaign beginning May 27th.
Be ClackGO Prepared! Our community is stronger when we prepare together.
- Sign up for Public Alerts
- Know your routes! Evacuation Planning Maps will be made available to the public, hosted on the county website.
- Build your ClackGO kit Begin pulling together a GO Kit in case they have to evacuate. We will provide a succinct check-list of items to include and consider.
We will be giving away check lists, stickers, first aid kits, flashlights, headlamps, and other ClackGO kit materials to help get people started at local community events.
We will be asking the public to share photos of themselves on social with the #ClackGOKit, to be entered into a drawing to win more expensive items to add to their go kit.
Trainings and Exercises
Oregon Training Offerings
| June 11 | G0191: Incident Command System/Emergency Operation Center Interface Salem |
| June 16 | AWR-421: Demystifying Cyber Attacks Salem This is an 8-hour cyber magic show for students of all levels of technical ability. Instructors will demonstrate hacking gadgets such as the Flipper Zero, WiFi Pineapple, and Rubber Duckies (not as cute as they sound). All skill levels are welcome to this course, as it is designed for anyone who interacts with a computer! |
| June 16-18 | G2300: Intermediate Emergency Operations Center Functions (Portland) |