Call To Action - Operation: Red Flag Dads

We are in Fire Season and have seen the damage caused with fires during these very dry Santa Ana winds. Thurston sits on a vista above Laguna Canyon which places it in a precarious position. The view is awesome and the fire threat is extreme.

We need to develop an emergency team to watch for fires during Red Flag Days.

Estimates are, in extreme conditions, Thurston officials will have 8-10 minutes to evacuate the school. What we want to do is give them the most time possible to implement their well developed emergency plans. Having 8-10 minutes is fine but if it takes 5 minutes to get them the information it becomes 3-5 minutes.

I am looking for dads who have reasonably flexible schedules, work locally or work from their homes that could volunteer for a shift or two on these Red Flag Days which is a condition declared by the Fire Department or the National Weather Service.

I envision dads walking the campus in 1 hour shifts. Basically you would walk from the parking lot to the far side of the soccer field along the Northern fence along the drainage ditch. I walked it today and it is the best view of the area.

So I am asking those that could be available in these situations to email me with your name and cell phone number. The protocol would be telephone and/or text messages. Like every other Strike Team request, you only need reply if you can help. Not everyone can do this but there are many that can.

On a red flag day or series of days you would get a call seeing if you could fill a shift or two on each day.

Let me know so we can put an effective team together to protect our kids.