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COUNTY, Calif. On the Peninsula, hundreds of people learned what to do and where to go in the event of an emergency.
It was all part of this year’s Disaster Preparedness Day in San Mateo. The event comes days after a tsunami alert in the Bay Area, which got the attention of many of us.
The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department demonstrated its “Hi-Low” siren used for emergencies.
“Evacuate, evacuate, evacuate. Whis is a drill”, said a sheriff’s deputy over a loudspeaker.
Announcements like that are used to warn the public about extreme weather, wildfires — even a tsunami threat, which the Bay Area got a taste of this week.
“We had the earthquake in Alaska. We were anticipating the tsunami to hit the coastline of California”, said one sheriff’s deputy.
Luckily that never happened, but it got Kristen Engmann thinking: what would she do?
“We are right across the street from the beach, so definitely, we just learned sirens mean “hi-lo, it’s time to go”, easy to remember”, Engmann said.
