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Hooper emergency-preparedness volunteers seek city support for trailer, outreach and Everbridge alerting
Summary
Volunteers leading Hooper’s emergency-preparedness effort updated the City Council at the Sept. 18 meeting on an emergency-response trailer, training plans and outreach tools, and asked the council to authorize modest procurement and improve city support for publicity and storage.
Volunteers leading Hooper’s emergency-preparedness effort updated the City Council at the Sept. 18 meeting on an emergency-response trailer, training plans and outreach tools, and asked the council to authorize modest procurement and improve city support for publicity and storage.
Dave Harris, Hooper’s emergency-preparedness specialist, described a recently acquired trailer stocked with protective equipment and incident supplies and said volunteers need a covered, secure place to store it and a plan for outfitting it. “We need to step up, as a city,” Harris said, asking for clearer attention from the city to make the program operational rather than it remaining a volunteer-only “club.”
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