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Lafayette outlines emergency‑management upgrades, resilience hubs and wildfire‑resiliency code readings
Summary
City officials presented emergency‑management improvements — new outdoor‑warning sirens, polygon evacuation mapping, a continuity‑of‑government plan, five community resource hubs and a proposed wildfire‑resiliency code (first reading May 5, second reading/public hearing June 2). Officials urged residents to register for county alerts and previewed resilience programs such as HEPA distribution and tree‑planting.
City officials told the Lafayette City Council they are advancing emergency management and resilience projects that span near‑term alerting improvements to longer‑term resilience hubs and code changes aimed at wildfire risk reduction.
Deputy City Manager Megan Davis opened the presentation and introduced Fire Chief Pete Bradshaw and Sustainability Director Lizzie Bacone, who together outlined Lafayette’s all‑hazards approach and regional partnerships. Chief Bradshaw described an incident‑commander model that scales existing city divisions to an emergency tempo and highlighted recent technology upgrades: a new outdoor‑warning system that covers roughly 80% of outdoor areas and polygon‑based evacuation maps intended to speed first‑responder decision‑making.
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