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Ocean Shores emergency exercise stresses single public-information voice, interoperable communications
Summary
City staff said a recent earthquake tabletop showed the need for a single, accurate public-information source and interoperable communications across police, fire, public works and partner agencies. The discussion covered drones, ham radio, radio-station broadcast cut-ins and a pending grant for satellite phones.
Ocean Shores staff and volunteers reviewed city emergency-management readiness at a public safety meeting, emphasizing the need for a single, authoritative source for public information and interoperable communications if an earthquake affects the area.
At the meeting, a staff member described the tabletop exercise based on an earthquake scenario and said officials focused on public information and operational communications. "That information has to be called from the information that the first responders gather in the field doing what's called the windshield survey," the staff member said, adding that public messages must be "dead accurate" to maintain public confidence.
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