Public speaker urges ICS training, NOAA radios and transit-based cooling/warming centers
Public commenter Dominique Mazock recommended elected officials take ICS courses, urged district-level coordination, encouraged promotion of NOAA radios for people without cell service, and suggested Metro buses be used as temporary cooling or warming centers during extreme weather.
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Dominique Mazock, the public speaker introduced by the chair, urged the committee to prioritize incident-command training and decentralized district coordination for disaster response. Mazock told the committee they are a ham-radio operator and recommended technical preparedness for elected officials: "I am a ham radio operator, so I'm bringing in some of my knowledge into this," and urged council members to take ICS courses ("100, 200, 700, 800").
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