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Newsletter #159 Friday, November 08, 2024: (full newsletter)

Boletín #159 viernes, 08 de noviembre de 2024 (haga clic aquí para ver el boletín completo)

 

CDC: New COVID and Pneumonia Vaccine Advice

Looking for an On-Island Vaccination Source?

Bad Weather Driving: Prepare. Protect. Prevent.

 

CDC: Consejos sobre las Nuevas Vacunas de COVID y Pulmonía

¿Buscando donde se pueden Vacunar en la Isla?

Manejando en Mal Clima: Prepárese, Protejase, Prevenga

 

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Gold Beach uses nifty maps and pursues better communications

By Vicky de Monterey Richoux on 11/10/2014 6:03 PM

Best practice: laminated map of your NERO, plus colored stickers to designate the status of each household.

Best practice: after an incident, use maps and forms to assess your neighborhood, then call 9-1-1 to report up.

Best practice: have older buildings reviewed by a contractor to make sure they have had seismic (earthquake) retrofits.

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DHS: Fusion Centers & EOCs Need to Talk

By John Cornelison on 1/11/2012 1:11 PM


According to the inspector general (IG) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), state and local fusion centers and emergency operations centers could improve the response of their jurisdictions to terrorism and natural disasters if they talked to each other more often. Many fusion centers and EOCs surveyed do not exchange information.

While Washington State’s fusion center’s near-daily briefing tends toward being a fear based police blotter, extracting news...
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Latest on Auctioning of Public Safety “D” Block

By John Cornelison on 8/7/2011 1:54 PM


In case you are following the debate on auctioning off the “D” block – dearly desired by public safety officials for helping solve the interoperability issues so notable during the 9/11 attacks – check out this latest story by the National Journal which reports the legislation is definitely in play with the latest budget battles. (VashonBePrepared has not taken a stand on this issue, but knows many of you are tracking this issue!)

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