Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena to launch El Niño website

By Mark Kellam

Nov. 12, 2015 7:17 PM PT

The cities of Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena are working together to provide safety and emergency-preparedness information to help residents get ready for an El Niño event.

The three cities are launching a new website called ElNinoReady.org and the Twitter account @VerdugoAlert.

Officials said ElNinoReady.org will have extensive content, including a series of plans and safety precautions residents can take to prepare for wetter-than-average weather conditions.

Residents will be able to receive information from their respective city and sign up for additional emergency alerts. Information detailing sandbag use and availability for each city, flood preparation and recovery, rainy weather safety tips, and animal preparedness are some of the topics covered on the new website, according to officials.

Mark Kellam, mark.kellam@latimes.com

Twitter: @LAMarkKellam

Mark Kellam

Mark Kellam was city editor of the Glendale News-Press and Burbank Leader. He joined Times Community News in July 2011 as the business-politics reporter and was promoted to city editor in January 2013. Previously, he was an editor at the Los Angeles Daily News and managing editor at Champion Newspapers in Chino, Calif. Prior to that, he was an editor at Amos Suburban Newspapers in Dayton, Ohio, for several years. Kellam holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana University.