Comments on: Question of the Week: How does your community prepare for emergencies? http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/09/qotw-emergencies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=qotw-emergencies EPA's Blog About Our World Thu, 23 May 2013 16:26:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Dianna Miller http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/09/qotw-emergencies/comment-page-1/#comment-55080 Dianna Miller Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:21:33 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1100#comment-55080 I just wanted to say thanks to the EPA, because they helped me and everyone our mobile home park in pahrump nevada. Without their help we wouldn’t be able to live here.

]]> By: emregenc http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/09/qotw-emergencies/comment-page-1/#comment-26485 emregenc Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:46:36 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1100#comment-26485 Very good questions.y community would evacuate, as soon as officials concerning would ask them to do so.

]]> By: Dave http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/09/qotw-emergencies/comment-page-1/#comment-24019 Dave Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:06:48 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1100#comment-24019 I’m doing the same thing in an f-450 diesel powerstroke. How American!!

]]> By: ALAN http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/09/qotw-emergencies/comment-page-1/#comment-23996 ALAN Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:01:40 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1100#comment-23996 FYI,
i get 5 miles to the gallon!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: ALAN http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/09/qotw-emergencies/comment-page-1/#comment-23995 ALAN Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:56:45 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1100#comment-23995 I’m going to drive a huge f-350 deisel pick-up cross country. just to be there 1 day then take my time to come back and stop and go in every state and drive around to see all the sites, and on black friday ill drive to every store in a 20 mile radius.

]]> By: Druz http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/09/qotw-emergencies/comment-page-1/#comment-20865 Druz Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:59:34 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1100#comment-20865 Living in Florida, disaster preparedness is exclusively focused on reaction, not proaction. We have our evacuation and shelter plans, our awareness programs, and our response teams well established.

But most Floridians have never experienced a real hurricane, and they are sadly complacent.

We have lulled ourselves into the “it won’t happen here” philosophy. Coastal construction remains unchecked and flood ways continue to be filled for new development.

The clock is ticking….

]]> By: ChaseR http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/09/qotw-emergencies/comment-page-1/#comment-20766 ChaseR Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:15:36 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1100#comment-20766 Dear Michael E. Bailey,

Please look at the Greening History article/blog in Greenversations.

Sincerely

]]> By: Michael E. Bailey http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/09/qotw-emergencies/comment-page-1/#comment-20713 Michael E. Bailey Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:27:31 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1100#comment-20713 I am in Mission Viejo in southern California. We have a strong emergency response system. The City does an Emergency Preparedness Academy once a quarter or so for the citizens. We have a program called AlertMissionViejo which is part of AlertOC emrgency notifications and information on evacuationorders, evacuation centers, and routes by phone or TTY machine. There is also a registry kept at the senior center on frail elderly and disabled persons who wouyld need help in evacuating. In an emergency, all the city employees are subject to call out to deal with it. The City works closely with the Orange County Fire Authority, Orange County Sheriff’s Department and neighboring towns to create and practice disaster plans. We also are making sure our disabled community is part of the planning process and providing trainings on how to deal with an emergency and how to prepare an emergency kit. We are doing a number of things for emergency response and more can and will be done. Best wishes, Michael E. Bailey.

]]> By: Bob Bowen http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/09/qotw-emergencies/comment-page-1/#comment-20692 Bob Bowen Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:08:07 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1100#comment-20692 Living in earthquake country (Southern California near San Diego) and in a mobile home park, we are very concerned about disaster preparedness. Our Mobile home park has an emergency plan and a structured emergency response team. Discounting the possibility of personael injuries, one of our major concerns is trauma with the elderly. we have volunteers to just sit and hold hands with them.

Our “park” has 2 HAM radio operators to keep us informed, 8 medical practioners including 4 nurses, 4 structural engineers as leaders of the “rescue” team, 4 walki-talki communications persons and 4 command center operations personnel.

We constantly check our communications and medical supplied for “operational preparedness”. We have too many good operational proceedures within our plan to detail here but we are in contact with the City Emergency Response Team.

]]> By: Jerome http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/09/qotw-emergencies/comment-page-1/#comment-20580 Jerome Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:01:29 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1100#comment-20580 Canned food, Wood from Home Depot, Sand bags from the Beach, Candles (lots of them), Flashlights (the kind where you shake and generates energy), Lots of movies from FrogFlicks….. family and friends. :)

cheers.

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