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Livingston Parish describes new emergency tech: app, weather stations, generators and safe rooms
Summary
Parish homeland security director outlined recent investments including an integrated parish app and website for geofenced alerts, roughly eight or nine weather stations from a recent grant, and generator and battery upgrades for critical communications and the EOC.
Chris Anderson, director of homeland security for Livingston Parish, detailed a series of recent investments intended to improve local emergency response and warning capabilities.
Anderson said the parish funded an app integrated with the redesigned parish website to deliver geofenced alerts, shelter and pod locations and other emergency information even when users do not have the app open. "We can send out alerts…
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