Direct Housing Program Helps North Complex Fire Survivors
In the weeks following the devastating wildfires that swept through California in 2020, FEMA approved a Direct Housing Program for eligible survivors in Butte County (DR-4558). Since then, California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) Individual...
Cal OES Hiring Communications Roles
The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services is growing our best-in-class communications team to better serve Californians during disasters. Cal OES prides itself on producing cutting-edge communications content that keeps Californians safe, turning...
State Prepares for Surge of COVID-19 Decedents, Working with Crematoriums and Embalmers
As California continues to reel from the rise in COVID-19-related fatalities, the state seeks new mitigating measures to address the backlog of decedents. Crematoriums in Southern California On January 17, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast...
State Officials Announce Latest COVID-19 Facts
SACRAMENTO – Today, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released the most recent statistics on COVID-19, including data on intensive care unit (ICU) capacity across the state. Projected ICU capacity remains below 15% in the Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley...
State Officials Announce Latest COVID-19 Facts
SACRAMENTO – Today, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released the most recent statistics on COVID-19, including data on intensive care unit (ICU) capacity across the state. Projected ICU capacity remains below 15% in the Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley...
State of California Deploys Additional 230 Personnel to Enhance COVID-19 Response Efforts in Communities Statewide
Deployed personnel come from California National Guard, California Medical Assistance Teams, Federal Military and Health agencies, California Health Corps, Fire/EMS, and contracted medical providers SACRAMENTO – The State of California – through the Governor’s...
Cal OES Extends Prepositioned Firefighting Resources and Personnel in Two Southern California Counties Through Lingering Red Flag Conditions
As dangerous fire weather conditions continue throughout Southern California, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) has strategically prepositioned critical fire resources to include strike teams of fire engines, firefighters, hand crews,...
Podcast #82: San Francisco FD Drafts Rookie PIO Who Starts Career in Super Bowl 50
In this episode of All Hazards, he’s THE public information officer for his fire department. No, not a small hamlet in rural California. San Francisco, California. Can you believe this legendary fire department has one person handling public information request, media...
State Officials Announce Latest COVID-19 Facts
SACRAMENTO – Today, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released the most recent statistics on COVID-19, including data on intensive care unit (ICU) capacity across the state. Projected ICU capacity remains below 15% in the Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley...
State of California Deploys Additional 290 Personnel to Enhance COVID-19 Response Efforts in Communities Statewide
Deployed personnel come from California National Guard, California Medical Assistance Teams, Federal Military and Health agencies, California Health Corps, Fire/EMS, and contracted medical providers SACRAMENTO – The State of California – through the Governor’s...
Cal OES Prepositions Firefighting Resources and Personnel in Six Southern California Counties Amid Persistent Red Flag Conditions
In preparation of dangerous fire weather conditions continuing across Southern California, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) has strategically prepositioned critical fire resources to include strike teams of fire engines, firefighters,...
California’s Law Enforcement Coordination in Advance of Presidential Inauguration
In preparation for the Presidential Inauguration on Wednesday, January 20, 2021, the Cal OES Law Enforcement Operations Center (LEOC) is actively coordinating with state and federal law enforcement agencies to ensure public safety leading up to and during the event....
State Officials Announce Latest COVID-19 Facts
SACRAMENTO – Today, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released the most recent statistics on COVID-19, including data on intensive care unit (ICU) capacity across the state. Projected ICU capacity remains below 15% in the Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley...
State Recovery Operations Launch New Online Tool: Debris Dashboard to Track Wildfire Cleanup Progress
SACRAMENTO – As property owners begin the process of recovering after last year’s wildfires, there are programs and resources available to help get them back on track. One of those is the State’s Consolidated Debris Removal Program led by the California...
Plans in Place to Assist Counties Statewide With Rising Number of COVID-19 Decedents (UPDATED)
By now, all of us have become familiar with the host of negative effects and unfortunate outcomes associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. But, perhaps, none of those outcomes is more difficult to mitigate or reverse than the surge in fatalities that is inevitably...
State Officials Announce Latest COVID-19 Facts
SACRAMENTO – Today, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released the most recent statistics on COVID-19, including data on intensive care unit (ICU) capacity across the state. CDPH will update the Regional Stay at Home metrics for each region twice a...
Governor Newsom Announces Additional Security Actions in Advance of Presidential Inauguration
SACRAMENTO – Taking proactive measures to protect public safety at the State Capitol and across California, Governor Gavin Newsom today announced a series of actions to bolster security in advance of the presidential inauguration. “In light of events in our nation’s...
Alternate Care Sites Expand As Surge Capacity Decompresses Strained Systems
As the COVID-19 virus continues to cause statewide impacts, California agencies are expanding efforts to address hospital bed shortages by adding capacity to existing systems. To augment surge capacity, Alternate Care Sites were stood up earlier last year in...
COVID-19 Response Efforts Continue to Expand as State of California Deploys Additional Medical Personnel Statewide
SACRAMENTO – The State of California – through the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and the Health and Human Services Agency – today announced the deployment of additional medical personnel to healthcare facilities statewide. In total, 2,580 medical personnel...
Cal OES Prepositions Firefighting Resources and Personnel in Three Southern California Counties in Advance of Red Flag Conditions
In preparation of dangerous fire weather conditions continuing across Southern California, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) has strategically prepositioned critical fire resources to include strike teams of fire engines, firefighters,...
Funcionarios Estatales Anuncian los Últimos Hechos de COVID-19
SACRAMENTO – Hoy, el Departamento de Salud Pública de California (CDPH) publicó las estadísticas más recientes sobre COVID-19, que incluyen datos sobre la capacidad de la unidad de cuidados intensivos (UCI) en todo el estado. Según las proyecciones de la UCI de...
State of California Provides Critical PPE in Response to COVID-19
Cal OES continues its mission alongside partner agencies to support local communities by providing critical Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The graphic below shows the inventory of all critical supplies and what has been...
State Officials Announce Latest COVID-19 Facts
SACRAMENTO – Today, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released the most recent statistics on COVID-19, including data on intensive care unit (ICU) capacity across the state. Beginning today, CDPH will update the Regional Stay at Home metrics for each...
COVID-19 Response Efforts Continue to Expand as State of California Deploys Additional Medical Personnel Statewide
SACRAMENTO – The State of California – through the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and the Health and Human Services Agency – today announced the deployment of additional medical personnel to healthcare facilities statewide. In total, 2,048 medical personnel...
Seniors 65+ Now Eligible to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine to Effectively and Efficiently Increase Vaccine Distribution, Reduce Hospitalizations and Save Lives
New Tool to Notify People of Vaccine Eligibility to Launch Next Week SACRAMENTO – In order to increase the pace of COVID-19 vaccine distribution to those at greatest risk, the state is prioritizing individuals 65 and older to receive the vaccine as demand subsides...
State Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Leaders Issue Joint Statement on Presidential Inauguration and Physical Security
SACRAMENTO – The following may be attributed to CHP Commissioner Amanda Ray, Cal OES Director and Homeland Security Advisor Mark Ghilarducci and California National Guard Adjutant General David Baldwin: Following the events that unfolded in our nation’s capital last...
State Officials Announce Latest COVID-19 Facts
SACRAMENTO – Today, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released the most recent statistics on COVID-19, including data on intensive care unit (ICU) capacity across the state. Based on four-week ICU projections, the Greater Sacramento region can...
Funcionarios Estatales Anuncian los Últimos Hechos de COVID-19
SACRAMENTO – Hoy, el Departamento de Salud Pública de California (CDPH) anunció las estadísticas más recientes sobre COVID-19, que incluyen datos sobre la capacidad de la unidad de cuidados intensivos (UCI) en todo el estado. Según los datos de la UCI, cuatro...
Residential Alternate Care Sites Are Being Established Across the State to Care for the Most Vulnerable as COVID-19 Hospitalizations Surge
SACRAMENTO – In an effort to help decompress California’s healthcare delivery system during the statewide surge in COVID-19 cases, Alternate Care Sites and Residential Alternate Care Sites are being established across California. The Residential Alternate Care Sites,...
State Officials Announce Latest COVID-19 Facts
SACRAMENTO – Today, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced the most recent statistics on COVID-19, including data on intensive care unit (ICU) capacity across the state. Based on ICU data, four regions, San Joaquin Valley, Southern California,...
Deadlines Approaching in California for SBA Working Capital Loans Due to Drought
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Director Tanya N. Garfield of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded California small nonfarm businesses of the deadline dates to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury....
COVID-19 Response Efforts Continue to Expand as State of California Deploys Additional Medical Personnel Statewide
SACRAMENTO – The State of California – through the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and the Health and Human Services Agency – today announced the deployment of additional medical personnel to healthcare facilities statewide. In total, nearly 1,900 medical...Warning: Undefined variable $caweb_first_video in /bitnami/wordpress/wp-content/themes/CAWeb-1.13.0/index.php on line 48
Images from the Montecito Mudslides on January 9, the Three Year Anniversary
It’s been three years since short but intense rainfall created the mudslides and debris flows that devastated Montecito in Santa Barbara. Here’s a short yet poignant look back at that event that happened on January 9, 2018. ...Warning: Undefined variable $caweb_first_video in /bitnami/wordpress/wp-content/themes/CAWeb-1.13.0/index.php on line 48
PPE Distribution Reaches One Billion Units Milestone
Personal Protective Equipment, or PPE, gives front line health workers, public servants, teachers and so many other essential workers the ability to safely care for those stricken with COVID19 and carry on activity important to daily life. These items include, but are...
Remembering the Montecito Mudslides Three Years Later
Three years ago, a series of mudflows roared down the hillsides of the Santa Ynez mountains and through the small town of Montecito, igniting frantic recovery efforts and paralyzing Santa Barbara County. As the Thomas Fire, which at the time was the largest wildfire...
COVID-19 Response Efforts Continue to Expand as State of California Deploys Additional Medical Personnel Statewide
SACRAMENTO – The State of California – through the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and the Health and Human Services Agency – today announced the deployment of additional medical personnel to healthcare facilities statewide. In total, nearly 1,800 medical...
Cal OES Director Comments on Preparations for COVID-19 Fatalities
Cal OES Director Mark Ghilarducci shares details on how the state is mitigating the rising number of COVID-19-related deaths. Watch the video below to find out more about the two new mutual aid plans being put in place to assist counties with the storage of COVID-19...
Wildfire Survivors Now Have Until February 1 to Join California’s No-Cost Wildfire Cleanup Program
SACRAMENTO – As property owners begin the process of recovering after a wildfire, there are programs and resources available to help get them back on track. One of those is the State’s Consolidated Debris Removal Program led by the California Governor’s Office of...
State Issues Recommendations to Local Health Departments and Providers to Accelerate Safe Vaccine Administration Statewide
Doses may go to individuals in lower priority groups when high-priority demand subsides or when doses are about to expire SACRAMENTO – Today the state issued vaccine recommendations to local public health departments and providers focused on accelerating the...
California Prepares for COVID-19 Casualties
Until the necessary critical mass of our population has been properly inoculated with one of the available vaccines and the rate of hospitalizations due to COVID-19 begins to drop, there is an immediate need to address the fallout from the overwhelming number of cases...
State of California Provides Critical PPE in Response to COVID-19
Last March, health care workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic were facing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) shortages. As the State of California assessed PPE supply needs, efforts were made to identify providers and secure contracts for additional...
State of California Deploys Additional 280 Personnel to Enhance COVID-19 Response Efforts in Communities Statewide
Deployed personnel come from California National Guard, California Medical Assistance Teams, Federal Military and Health agencies, California Health Corps, Fire/EMS, and contracted medical providers SACRAMENTO – In expanding continued efforts to protect...
State Officials Announce Latest COVID-19 Facts
SACRAMENTO – Today the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced the most recent statistics on COVID-19, including data on intensive care unit (ICU) capacity across the state. Based on ICU data, four regions, San Joaquin Valley, Southern California,...
California’s Mutual Aid System Sends Additional Paramedics, EMTs To Assist With COVID-19 Hospital Surge
California’s Fire and Rescue Mutual Aid System has sent additional Firefighter Paramedics and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) on 14-day deployments to assist emergency rooms and other vital medical areas in some of California’s most impacted hospitals. These...
Local, State and Federal Law Enforcement Collaborate to Protect Californians from Unemployment Insurance Fraud
SACRAMENTO – The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) in partnership with State’s Districts Attorney’s and the US Attorney’s Office continue to investigate and remediate fraud within state and federal unemployment insurance...
State of California Deploys Additional Personnel to Enhance COVID-19 Response Efforts in Communities Statewide
Deployed personnel come from California National Guard, California Medical Assistance Teams, Federal Military and Health agencies, California Health Corps, Fire/EMS, and contracted medical providers SACRAMENTO – The State of California – through the Governor’s...
Alternate Care Sites Provide Patient Care as COVID-19 Hospitalizations Continue
Earlier last year as the spread of the COVID-19 virus began painting a dire picture of potential hospital bed shortages, California agencies stood up Alternate Care Sites to build capacity to help decompress healthcare systems. While the facilities remained in...
With USNS Mercy Hospital Ship Unavailable, California Requests 500 Additional Medical Personnel from Federal Government to Support COVID-19 Response
SACRAMENTO – Taking action to maintain life-preserving healthcare system capacity amid the current surge in COVID-19 cases, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) and the California Health and Human Services Agency today formally requested...