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Barnstable County details blizzard response, shelters and multi-million-dollar tab
Summary
County Commissioner Mark Forest described how Barnstable County activated its emergency operations center, mobilized more than a dozen shelters and coordinated 200-person regional calls; local costs are significant and state or federal help is uncertain.
Mark Forest, chair of the Barnstable County commissioners, told Government 101 listeners the county activated its emergency operations center and convened regional calls with town managers, police and fire chiefs and DPW directors to coordinate the response to a major blizzard.
Forest said the county runs a staffed operations center with generators and direct lines to the National Weather Service and the state emergency management agency. In the days before and during the storm the county convened morning and afternoon calls—sometimes including about 200 municipal…
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