Pioneertown Emergency Preparedness Network
The PEPN mission is to create resiliency as a Community and assist as needed in emergencies, especially when professional first responders are over-taxed and unavailable.
Our goal is to organize and respond in the event of a disaster, ensuring no one is overlooked – especially those with special needs.
Currently, we are collecting information from our neighbors for emergency response purposes ONLY. Please take a moment, if you haven’t already, to complete our COMMUNITY survey.. Your information will be kept secure to protect your privacy and only used in the event of an emergency for communication purposes.
PEPN has defined 9 community neighborhood areas, each with a 1st designated point person, and a 2nd point person to serve as back-up and to provide assistance to the 1st as needed. In the event the 1st point person is unavailable, the 2nd will assume the lead for their neighborhood.
The designated PEPN point person(s) role is to serve as a communication liaison between the PEPN members, emergency responders and the neighbors within their designated areas as shown on the PEPN map.
Pioneertown Communities Point Persons:
- Water Canyon: 1st Pam Hemingway, 2nd Matt McCarthy
- Pioneertown South – Sawtooth: 1st Dolores Silver 2nd Gwen Dixon
- Pioneertown North – Skyline Ranch: 1st Ally Wray-Kirk, 2nd Christy Anderson
- Kee’s Ranch: 1st Peggy & Steve Schroeder, 2nd Casey Zaccaria
- Rimrock: 1st Chris Barker, 2nd Laurie McVay
- Burns Canyon: 1st Debra Gonzales , 2nd Gillian & Jeremy Keller
- Pipes Canyon: 1st Allan Songer & Kerrie Aley, 2nd Sara Tambellini & Russ Scott
- Gamma Gulch: 1st Sarah Kennington & Steve Bardwell, 2nd Paul Hadley & Wendy Hadley
- Parson’s Ranch: 1st Ashley Rose, 2nd Dave Bricker
Responsibilities for the designated point persons for each area:
- Attend PEPN meetings and contribute to planning and organization.
- Be willing and able to solicit, collect and keep updated inventory of residents’ names, addresses, emergency access routes, special needs and relevant resources of participating neighbors within your designated neighborhood.
- Perform a ‘windshield-survey’ of your neighborhood during or following a disaster to determine needs.
- Maintain contact and communication with the other point person(s) in your neighborhood. Notify the other designated point person should you leave for vacation or for an extended period of time.
- Receive training on the use of a PEPN supplied emergency radio and adhere to agreed upon protocols.
PEPN Organizing Committee members: Steve Bardwell, Chris Barker, Adam Freeland, Sarah Kennington, Julian Pinder, Karen Willey, Ally Wray-Kirk
PEPN is a COAD (Community Organization Active in Disaster) affiliated with County of San Bernardino’s VOAD (Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster.) SBCOVOAD is a whole community network of non-partisan membership organizations that serves as the forum to share knowledge and resources throughout the disaster cycle – preparation, response, recovery and mitigation – to help communities prepare for and recover from disasters. Further, SBCOVOAD seeks is to foster efficient delivery of available member resources to persons with unmet needs affected by disaster. www.sbcovoad.org
PEPN is also affiliated with the Friends of Pioneertown – a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable organization. www.FriendsofPioneertown.org
CONTACT PEPN
Email us and we will get back to you asap! If you need to contact your point person of your region, email at this address and we will put you in touch with them.
Or join PEPN Whats App HERE: https://chat.whatsapp.com/CCEVovxg4He7jniulVSBYa
