Community Tips
Safety
Tips - Plan Ahead & Lifesaving Tips
City
Looks to Identify, Preserve Historic Buildings
Library
Works to Keep City Treasures Safe and Secure
Safety Tips
Plan ahead
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In the time it takes to read the above lines, you and your family
could suffer from fire related injury.
Seconds count.
Last year
alone, more than 6,000 people died in house fires in the United States.
The Monterey Fire Department wants you to know it doesn’t have to happen
to you.
Plan in advance
- Install smoke detectors
- Design an escape plan and practice it with your family
Exit
Drills In The Home or E.D.I.T.H. is something every family should
practice. Develop your exit plan now so every member of your family,
especially children, knows what to do in a fire.
Everyone should know
two ways out of each room of the house. Identify a central meeting area,
such as the front driveway, where all family members should meet during an
emergency.
Develop your plan and PRACTICE it regularly by actually
sounding the test button on your smoke detector.
Life saving tips
When the smoke detector sounds, drop to the
floor and crawl to the door or window that provides you the fastest and
safest route out of the building. Immediately go to the central meeting
area and stay there until all family members are accounted for.
DO NOT
STOP FOR ANYTHING!
Call 911 from a neighbor’s house.
For houses
with two or more stories, use escape ladders that hang from the window.
They can be purchased at local hardware stores.
Remember: The most
important thing you can do in a fire is, “Get out and stay out!”
E.D.I.T.H. plans are easy to develop and can save you and your family from
death or injury.
For more information call 646.3900.
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City Looks to Identify,
Preserve Historic Buildings
With the preservation of Monterey’s early history well in hand,
the City is turning its attention to the late 1800s and early 20th
century.
As historic zoning covers virtually all buildings constructed
prior to 1875, the City is looking toward maintaining those of more modern
times.
Working with the consulting firm Architectural Resources Group
(ARG) - in conjunction with the State Park system, Monterey History and
Art Association, the U.S Army and Navy and various historical
organizations - a Historic Master Plan is being drawn up.
The goal is
to coordinate existing preservation efforts and allow residents an
opportunity to help decide which elements of this history are important to
preserve.
The City and ARG are also surveying the historic
significance of Cannery Row, in an attempt to identify which buildings
contribute to the broad history of the area.
Already, the City has
purchased, been given or leased buildings representing the full range of
local history, including Doc Ricketts’ Lab, the lower Presidio of
Monterey, Cannery Row Worker’s Shacks, the Gordon House and Aeneas Cannery
Bridge.
Through these efforts, long-time residents, newer residents
and visitors will be better able to appreciate the place these buildings
play in local history as well as Monterey’s place in the larger historical
scheme of California, the United States and the world.
Library Works to Keep City
Treasures Safe and Secure
The City’s storied past, as well as that of the region and State,
are alive and well in the Library’s Local History Collection. Historic
books, photographs, maps and news clippings chronicle the people and
events that have shaped the present.
A unique and valuable part of the
City’s memory, the collection is housed in the climate-controlled
California History Room. Recognizing Monterey’s central role in early
California history, the Collection includes materials on the State through
1850. Resources on more recent times focus on the City and the Peninsula.
The Library is responsible for protecting the Collection for future
generations and making it accessible to today’s Library customers. We have
contracted with an archivist to improve and enhance Library stewardship of
local history materials. Archival materials have been repaired and placed
in secure storage containers, and Library staff and volunteers have been
trained on current procedures for handling these rare and valuable
materials.
Books, photographs and maps have been added to the
Library’s catalog or listed for easy reference. Come visit the Library
today and explore a unique historical treasure.
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