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Washoe County emergency manager highlights PerimeterMap, new alerting and evacuation study
Summary
Washoe County Emergency Manager Kelly Etabrugia described new tools and planned evacuation modeling to improve local evacuations, including PerimeterMap, Rave Smart911 sign-ups and a donated evacuation study to identify high‑risk choke points.
Kelly Etabrugia, Washoe County emergency manager, told the Spanish Springs Community Advisory Board on April 8 that county emergency management has been expanding digital tools and planning to make evacuations faster and clearer for residents.
Etabrugia said the county now uses PerimeterMap (perimetermap.com) to publish real‑time evacuation perimeters and related information and has switched its alerting system to Rave Smart911 so residents can geotag their household and indicate access or functional needs. “You can also indicate if you have access and functional needs or someone in your house has access and functional needs. What that means for us is that we can run a report of the area and send you a message and say, ‘Can…
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