Household Information for 1105 Altschul Avenue

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Emergency Contacts

Fire / paramedic emergencies:

Menlo Park Fire Protection District: 911 (non-cellular) or (650) 688-8400.

Police emergencies:

San Mateo County sheriff: 911 (non-cellular) or (650) 726-8286 (dispatch centre). Non-emergency: (650) 363-4911.
Menlo Park police: 911 (non-cellular) or (650) 325-4424. Non-emergency: (650) 330-6300.

Poison Help (California Poison Control System): (800) 222-1222.
Animal Control (Peninsula Humane Society): (650) 340-8200.

Utilities urgent matters:

PG&E (gas leaks, power outages): (800) 743-5000. Outage maps (1, 2)
PG&E (updates on power outages): (800) 743-5002. Customer service: (800) 743-5000. We're in rotating outage block 10 subblock F. (address lookup)
West Bay Sanitary (sewage outflows): (650) 321-0384. Emergency line: (650) 321-0384.
S.M. County Public Works (sewage outflows): (650) 363-4765, or (650) 363-4000 after hours. Emergency line: (650) 599-7281 (per USA 811 North).
Recology San Mateo County (refuse pickup): (1, 2) (650) 595-3900
AT&T (ex-SBC, ex-Pacific Bell) line down: 611 (non-cellular) or (800) 310-2355.
Water (California Water Service emergency repair): (650) 854-5454, (650) 367-6800 (according to USA 811 North), during business hours, and (650) 553-4631 after hours. We're in their Bear Gulch District, but they'll mostly need street address and cross street.
Street lights (Menlo Park Public Works - Transportation Division): (650) 330-6740.
Street lights (S.M. County Public Works), 24 hours: (650) 599-1407.
Comcast Business: Emergency line: 888-824-8219. Accounts: (800) 266-2278 or (800) 391-3000. California customer service: (800) 945-2288. Customer service: (877) 589-8809 Billing: (800) 934-6489. Technical Support: (866) 316-1619.
Menlo Park Public Works: Emergency line: (650) 330-6780 (per USA 811 North).
AT&T (former PacBell/SBC/etc.): Emergency line: 510-645-2929 (per USA 811 North).

Street Sweeping: As of Dec. 2015, occurs 1st Thursdays & 3rd Thursdays.

For context: We are not inside the Menlo Park city limits, but many of our neighbours are. (1105 Altschul Avenue is on a strip of unincorporated county land called variously West Menlo Park or "University Heights".)

Wildfires / Air Quality Information (AQI): (link)

PurpleAir: Note: URL tweaks reporting to apply "US API" conversion recommended to match AirNow's AQI reporting, exclude (irrelevant) indoor sensors when checking wildfire air pollution, and report a 10-minute average.
Fire and Smoke Map @EPA, includes both official & "lower-cost" (e.g., PurpleAir) sensors, has a time lag
EPA AirNow (static AQI map; shows 3 hr data a/o page load)
BAAQMD AQI forecast
IQAir AQI & forecast
IQAir AirVisual Earth 3D real-time air pollution & winds map
NOAA HRRR-Smoke model visualization
NOAA GOES Image Viewer
AccuWeather air quality info/forecast
US Wildfire Activity Web map
Satellite Signals map (enter 37 degrees 25.82 mins N, 122 degrees 12.25 mins W, size=10)
CalTopo map
NOAA Geostationary Lightning Mapper
NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System map (note date selector!)
S.F. Chronicle CA Air Quality and Wind Map (2022-12-20: no data reported)
Windy.com wind map
National Fire Situational Awareness map (may not work on some Web browsers)
CAL FIRE CZU Twitter via Nitter proxy (includes links to Operations Briefings video)
CAL FIRE CZU Facebook
CAL FIRE top-level incidents page: subpages cover current incidents
InciWeb Incident Information System: interagency site for response to emergencies & similar (may not work on some Web browsers)
NWS weather forecast

We are in CAL FIRE (California Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection) evacuation zone MP-E001, serviced by CAL FIRE's CZU (San Mateo / Santa Cruz) Administrative Unit (map).