Evacuation Drill in Panoramic & Edgewood Areas Planned for May 4

Residents in the Panoramic and Edgewood neighborhoods are being asked by the Mill Valley Fire Department to participate in a voluntary evacuation drill the morning of Saturday, May 4.

Around 9 a.m. residents will hear an evacuation siren and will receive a Telephone Emergency Notification System (TENS) alert. You can sign up here if you haven't already.

Residents are then asked to walk, bike or drive to the Marin County Fire Department’s Throckmorton Fire Station, or Old Mill School, and visit a check-in station to fill out a brief survey. The check in at Old Mill is at the playground, and there’s limited parking available behind the school. 

Local agencies - including Red Cross, Marin Humane Society, Whistlestop, Marin Medical Reserve Corps., Emergency Preparedness Commission and the Salvation Army - will also be on hand for demonstrations and to provide emergency preparedness information.

The drill is meant to assess issues that might come in the event of an actual disaster, such as a wild fire on Mt. Tam, according to the Mill Valley Fire Department. It not only gives families an opportunity to practice an evacuation, but helps public safety officials identify which routes are used and how long it takes to reach a check-in area, the department said.

This is the Mill Valley Fire Department’s seventh evacuation drill, in conjunction with the Marin County Fire Department, Southern Marin Fire Protection District, our Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) and the Emergency Preparedness Commission (EPC).

Click here to view the evacuation drill letter sent to the neighborhoods involved in the drill. For questions contact Battalion Chief Mike St. John at 415-389-4140 or evacuation@cityofmillvalley.org.

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