Emergency Preparedness in a mobile home park has many similarities to disaster planning in any other community. However, if you live in a mobile home community in California, you know about some of the unique characteristics to the “mobile home lifestyle.”
GSMOL members typically know even more —
- about the laws that protect them
- the decisions that park owners and managers can and can not make
- the history of mobile home park disasters in our state.
We’re writing this particularly for GSMOL members! We know from experience that they are active, aware and committed . . . and that’s what it takes when it comes to preparing for an emergency!
So, please take a few minutes to read the special article:
Survive a Disaster in a Mobile Home
And if you’re serious about making it through the next “big one,” please sign up below to get the two-page report (and its follow-up companion) written especially for GSMOL members. You may find it controversial . . .which is why we ask you to request it. We’ll be sending some of our follow-up Advisories, too, which we think will give you a better understanding of the breadth of preparedness planning.
Frequently Asked Questions about Emergency Preparedness Plans for California Mobilehome Parks.
Please email me your “Survive a Disaster in a Mobile Home Park.” I am a GSMOL member in San Luis Obispo, CA
On its way!
Please email me your “Survive a Disaster in a Mobile Home Park.” I am a GSMOL member at Pueblo Serena MHC in Sonoma, CA where we are organizing an emergency response team. Thanks.
Happy to send you the Report, and anything else that might fit your community. Watch for it tomorrow in your email. Virginia
Is there a requirement that mobile home park owners provide an emergency plan? How often would it get updated.
Hi, Ruth Anne. In California a mobile home park owner (or maybe the manager) must have an emergency plan and make it available to the residents. (They don’t necessarily give you a copy, but they are supposed to let you know that a copy is available for you to look at.) The plans I’ve seen are pretty much boilerplate but they cover a description of the park, how people will be informed of an emergency, and contain a map with evacuation information. Here’s a link to a resource for a sample guide to building a plan: http://www.hcd.ca.gov/manufactured-mobile-home/mobile-home-parks/park-operation.shtml I am unaware of any requirement that the plan be regularly updated.