Cape Cod Ledger

Emergency Management Newsletter

As another winter is upon us, we want to let you know what we are doing to plan for winter storms, power outages, and other emergencies. Our team comprised of Police, Fire, DPW, Library, COA, Recreation, Health, and other critical staff and volunteers are coordinating our emergency response efforts to recover as soon as possible from each event. The first, and most critical phase of emergency management is making sure we, as your town team are prepared and that we do everything we can to ensure that you and your household are prepared. This newsletter is an easy way to make sure you have important information at your fingertips. We can’t prevent the storms and power outages, but we can, with your help, keep you connected, give you up to date information on what is expected, updates on the storm, availability of shelter services, warming and charging stations, and a sense of when we might have power restored and roads cleared. 

The Town has two great communication tools that will help us reach you. Please consider registering for CODE RED messages, so we can keep in touch throughout an event and Eversource Outage Alerts. If you sign up for these tools, you will receive messages directly from the Town of Eastham and Eversource. These messages are specific to Eastham and your address. If you need assistance with either of these, the Senior Center is offering “Tech Help” every Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. Drop in and they will help you sign up for these great updates. We will also have regular updates on our new Emergency Management page on the Town’s website at www.eastham-ma.gov, and on Facebook. Let’s work together to make this a safe, warm and bright winter. 

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