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Saline County reviews emergency response after ice storm that damaged dozens of structures
Summary
Saline County leaders reviewed the response to a severe ice storm, reporting damage assessments, 911 continuity, road operations, volunteer efforts and water-distribution challenges while announcing mutual-aid and state-declaration actions.
Saline County officials on Monday reviewed their response to a recent ice storm that damaged public and private structures, strained water systems and required large-scale volunteer and mutual-aid efforts.
The county's emergency director, Director Cohen, told the quorum court that county emergency operations were activated as the storm approached and that the judge issued a verbal disaster declaration to the state on Jan. 25, followed by a written declaration on Jan. 29. "We reported 97 total damage reports have been submitted to the state from Saline County," Cohen said, and added that 911 infrastructure did not experience major outages during the event.
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