As a tee-up to the National Tsunami Preparedness Week, DEM joined hundreds of Marina Middle School students on March 24, 2017 for the annual San Francisco Tsunami Walk. The walk began at the Marina Green at Fillmore Street and Marina Boulevard and involved more than 120 students alongside city, school district, and emergency officials. As they would in a real event, the students demonstrated how the public should move inland and to higher ground when a tsunami is on the way. The walk concluded at the area’s designated Tsunami Evacuation Site — Marina Middle School.
The day also integrated an emergency preparedness expo for the entire student body that featured DEM’s SF72 Youth program, the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management, San Francisco Fire Department, San Francisco Police Department, the San Francisco Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT), Earthquake Country Alliance Bay Area, and the Salvation Army.
Tsunami Walk