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Emergency management reports big social-media reach, school "stop the bleed" kits arriving and ICS classes filled
Summary
Story County emergency management told the board its social-media alerts recently reached tens of thousands (one post had 106,000 views), stop-the-bleed kits are arriving and ICS 304 training classes are full with public-safety and hospital participants.
An emergency management staff member told the Story County Board of Supervisors that recent severe-weather activity kept the office busy, but the office's social-media outreach has had a large impact: one post announcing a severe thunderstorm transition to snow recorded roughly 106,000 views and 89 shares.
The report matters because outreach, training and equipment distribution aim to improve local readiness for severe weather and other incidents. The staff member also described training exercises, upcoming statewide tornado drill activity and the arrival of "stop the bleed" kits for schools.
"I was absolutely floored, when we were updating the the severe thunderstorms, that were coming and then that we're gonna transition to snow, one post had 106,000 views," the emergency management staff member said, noting the post's reported reach of about 62,000 people and that followers had increased by a couple hundred during recent events.
The staff member said the stop-the-bleed kits were scheduled to arrive the day after the report and that the sheriff's office offered to help deliver kits to schools. The office also recently ran a four-hour tabletop exercise on planning gaps with city partners and law enforcement and is working with partners to build an exercise focused on a missing-person incident.
The staff member said Iowa Homeland Security-supported ICS 304 classes, hosted with the city of Ames, have filled with attendees from public safety, hospitals and the Iowa National Guard. The statewide severe-weather awareness week includes a statewide tornado drill the speaker said is scheduled for 10 a.m. weather permitting; outdoor sirens in communities will be activated as part of the drill.
Supervisors praised the training and planning work; no action was taken on the report.
Ending: Emergency management staff said they will continue planning and coordination in advance of the next fiscal planning session starting July 1.
