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City emergency manager asks HREC to help close equity gaps in disaster planning; discusses hazards and local readiness
Summary
Carrie Carl, Bend's director of risk and emergency management, briefed the commission on the city's emergency management program, phases of disaster management, expected hazards (including Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake, wildfire and air quality events) and the disproportionate impacts on older adults, people with disabilities and unhoused
The city of Bend's emergency management director told the Human Rights & Equity Commission that disasters disproportionately harm people with access and functional needs and asked commissioners to help the city identify gaps and improve outreach and equitable response.
Carrie Carl, director of risk and emergency management, explained the four phases of emergency management — mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery — and described the mission areas the city uses (prevention, protection, mitigation, response, recovery). "Emergency management is really about reducing the vulnerability to the hazards that we see or experience in the area in which we live," Carl said.
Carl listed hazards Central Oregon faces, including wildfire, flood, landslide, and seismic risk from both local faults and the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Carl said a Cascadia event would produce strong shaking…
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