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Residents urge Bowling Green to design new fire stations and police building as resiliency centers
Summary
Speakers at a Bowling Green City Council meeting urged the council to require tornado shelters, backup power, floodproofing and other resiliency features in planned new fire stations and a police building renovation; the mayor said designs are in early stages and the city currently relies on county emergency agreements for mass sheltering.
Two residents told the Bowling Green City Council during public comment that new public safety facilities should be designed to operate as resiliency centers capable of sheltering residents and supporting emergency response.
Jim Evans, one of the authors of the Bowling Green Climate Action and Resiliency Improvement Plan, told the council the city’s planned new fire stations and the police building renovation should include energy-efficiency upgrades and features to serve as tornado shelters and resiliency centers. "These buildings should have safe rooms that are structurally competent to act as tornado shelters protecting critical first responders," Evans said. He…
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