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San Joaquin County Office of Emergency Services outlines preparedness gains, recovery funds and new public-alert tools
Summary
OES Director Tiffany Cacho presented county emergency operations work Oct. 7, citing investments in preparedness, $56 million recovered for disaster response, expanded pre-positioned flood pipe containers, the county's SJCReady public alert platform and a new Emergency Operations Support Team of county employees.
Tiffany Cacho, director of the San Joaquin County Office of Emergency Services (OES), presented an overview of the department’s functions, recent activations and initiatives during the Oct. 7 Board of Supervisors meeting.
Cacho said OES coordinates preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation across the county’s eight cities and more than 120 special districts, covering more than 800,000 residents. The office supports response operations for wildfires, floods, COVID-19 and other incidents and maintains plans such as the county…
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