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The topics on the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health website that are most relevant to California are Wildfires and Earthquakes.
There are a lot of health and environmental impacts caused by wildfires. As many of us recently experienced, the air quality can be severely impacted by wildfires and cause many health problems. In addition, the psychosocial impact of wildfires is distress for people who were displaced or lost their homes. In California right now we have hundreds of people who need housing and the state was already in a housing crisis.
Earthquakes have a similar psychosocial impact, however in the most recent earthquakes we've had in California, most homes have only suffered some damage and people were not completely displaced.

I had no idea about the Disaster Healthcare Volunteers site. I think this is a great resource and I hope that all healthcare professionals know about this site. I also hope there is something similar in each state. 

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  1. UnknownDecember 11, 2018 at 1:49 AM

    I am preparing for another big earthquake here in the Bay. I am almost done gathering my emergency pack/kit items. I agree with you about the volunteers site, I am debating whether to sign up for my local one. I would feel horrible if they reached out to me and I did not respond to help in an emergency situation.

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