Greetings Upper Rockridge Neighbors,
This is your monthly URNA Newsletter to help us better stay in contact with you!
(This mailing is addressed to: Current and Former Members of URNA, Volunteers, Newsletter subscribers. Feel free to forward to anyone and ask them to subscribe)
NEW! URNA-BAY PATROLS SERVICE:
URNA/Bay Alarm Partnership : July 1, 2017 
After URNA patrols provider SC3 (San Jose) discontinued their business in Oakland, we worked out a strategic partnership with 46 year old, well-known BAY ALARM to provide the patrols in our area. Unlike many surrounding areas, the URNA coverage area is unique in that it contains a lot of households that contract with Bay Alarm in some fashion already - they are well established here, and it is likely you've seen their patrols driving our streets already. So, it made sense for URNA to consider partnering with them, and for Bay to court URNA members. They are a local company with infrastructure in our area that is very well established, including a local dispatch center, and multiple patrol cars.
BAY ALARM PATROLS / URNA!
Bay Alarm Residential Patrol Service has great Features:
We think you'll really appreciate the services provided! A sales brochure can be viewed with link below but here is a short summary.
- Random Patrols with well marked vehicles: 24 hours/day, 7 days/week!
- Suspicious Activity dispatch: call when you observe something suspicious in your area
- Alarm response: If you have an alarm your monitoring service can dispatch Bay patrols
- Vacation Watch: Inspect daily/collect mail
- Safety Escort
- ONLINE access to patrol logs - see the passes patrols make on daily basis
- URNA members also receive discounts on any other Bay Alarm services offered...
Click to view Bay Alarm Patrols Services Brochure -> Bay Patrol Services Brochure
THE NEW BAY PATROLS are less costly for URNA Full members, and same for Associate members. CLICK HERE for more info.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO HAVE BAY ALARM hardware or monitoring, or even an alarm to have parol services. PLEASE READ OUR ENTIRE FAQ about the new services:
URNA-BAY ALARM PATROLS FAQ:
PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING URNA. We have a low-low rate for Associate members now too. Help us keep the neighborhood safe. Thx.
FACTOID:
URNA has over 300 Newsletter subscribers but only a portion of you contribute to patrols, so please help keep your residence and our community safe by joining now.
ALREADY AN URNA MEMBER? Click below to go right to the new patrols signup forms and information:
OTHER NEWS
BERKELEY HILLS FIRE SQUASHED - Scary reminder of past
/ Dan Kalb statement
A fire broke out in the hills above the Berkeley campus this week and it was a scary reminder of the 1991 Oakland Hills firestorm to those residents that have been around since then. Fortunately the Berkeley Fire Dept with aid from numerous other agencies/departments got the fire under control in less than 24 hours. All residents of the hills are at risk, but we also are thankful that coordination of fire fighters is improved since the 1991 tragedy.
Our URNA area city council person Dan Kalb send the following statement to the URNA Facebook Page:
"I want to give my heartfelt thanks to the hard-working fire crews from the City of Oakland, City of Berkeley, EBRPD, Moraga-Orinda, CalFire, Contra Costa County and Alameda County fire departments for their work in making sure the Grizzly Fire in the Berkeley and Oakland hills is contained.
Fortunately, no one has been injured and no structures have burned down.
Nevertheless, we must be ever-vigilant to reduce the risk of wildfires in our hills. The City of Oakland is in the process of completing a new Vegetation Management Plan to reduce fire risk in our wildfire area. We are also hiring additional vegetation management wildfire inspectors.
Thank you again to all the hard-working firefighters who took part and are taking part in this multi-jurisdictional effort." -Dan Kalb
AREA CRIME MAP JULY continued a slight increase in crime after a calm March/April. Several robberies and if you read NextDoor (you should) you'll see a number of car break-ins and some mail theft. Even some assaults this last month :-( SEE the PARKING OUTSIDE tips below or on our website.
Check out the crime map from JULY below. CLICK on map or link below for interactive version.
The BEST way to view this is interactively via the CrimeMapper link: http://www.crimemapping.com/Share/URNA If you pick an address close to the center of URNA coverage map (e.g. 77 Clarewood Ln is good), you can see crime in the whole area when you don't limit to the 1 mile radius as shown above...
***FACTOID: THERE ARE OVER 1500 homes in URNA coverage area. Our patrols benefit ALL of them. Please take part in the collective safety of our neighborhood!
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