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San Francisco Disaster Council · April 17, 2009

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April 9 South Bay cable cuts and city technology resilience

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Speaker identified as Chris (name used in meeting) described an April 9 incident in the South Bay in which fiber-optic cabling was cut, disrupting Internet access for some neighbors. Chris said San Francisco rerouted traffic and was not critically affected, and that the city is working with AT&T, the fire chief and police chief to identify areas needing extra protection and to harden rerouting and recovery processes for future outages.

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San Francisco Disaster Council met to review recent communications outages, an April 1 EOC functional exercise, planning for an October “Big Rumble” preparedness week (including a ShakeOut drill and neighborhood events), updates on regional UASI projects and the Bay Area interoperable communications (BayRx) program, and public comments about emergency response gaps.

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