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Clovis LEPC reviews storm response, public-health alerts and emergency exercises
Summary
At a March meeting of the Local Emergency Planning Committee, local emergency managers, public-safety chiefs and utility and health representatives reviewed recent windstorm response, discussed an expired StormReady designation and upcoming exercises, and flagged regional measles and local rabies cases.
Clovis' Local Emergency Planning Committee met to review local storm response and preparedness work, hear updates on public-safety planning and exercises, and receive public-health and utility briefings.
Emergency Manager Ruth Ann Kelly opened the meeting by noting coordination needs for the LEPC membership roster and by saying the city’s StormReady community application with the National Weather Service has expired and must be renewed. Kelly said renewal requires more documentation than in past cycles and stressed that the designation depends on multiple communication channels to get information to first responders and the public.
Kelly also summarized the community's response to the recent high-wind event. She said incident logs recorded 16 calls for wires or poles down, three tractor-trailers overturned and one incident that prompted the hospital to implement a mass-casualty protocol. Kelly said the jurisdiction has an outstanding application to the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, which supports…
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