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Show 2B Lakeside Review South, Wednesday, April 11, 1984 Emergency Plan to Reach All Area Families BOUNTIFUL South Davis County has been organized into neighborhoods with coordinators assigned for each family and now the task is being directed at north Davis County, reports Davis County Emergency Preparedness Committee member, Lloyd Carr. The county organization is designed to assist all residents in case emergency situations arise, including possible flooding and mudslides this spring. The plan will hopefully provide an orderly framework for residents to. obtain hclpand help their neighbors during any future emergencies. An estimated 1,500 neighborhood coordinators in the south end of the county from North Salt Lake to Farmington have been selected to be responsible for 10 to 15 homes. These neighborhood coordinators will report to designated area coordinators who supervise about 10 to 15 neighborhoods. District coordinators who supervise five to eight areas and who report to the city command post have, also . been selected. Carr said north Davis. County cities started later in the progam but West Point and Sunset are the only two cities in the north that have not completed work on a list of coordinators. The emergency program was implemented in the south end of - tives of these neighborhoods responsible for about 10 to 15 families. The boundaries designated under the program are the same as those .for LDS Church wards. Officials of the program have said these designations were used because they were already established and convenient for residents. Bishops of LDS wards may serve as area coordinators and presidents of LDS stakes will act as district coordinators in some S areas. residents will also be involved throughout the areas. Neighborhood coordinators will contact homes throughout the county to let residents know who to contact in case an nity committee, human emergency situation occurs. City resources committee, emergency or county officials should only preparedness committee and be called if a breakdown in the state and county resources comneighborhood operation occurs. mittee. The lines of communication Individuals are being coun- run up through an area coordiseled by committee officials to nator, district coordinator, city have on hand supplies for themcommand post, Davis County selves and their families to get and state of Utah. ' them through an emergency in Neighborhood, area and dis- -' case they are forced to evacuate trict coordinators are receiving or supplies are not available. training in emergency preparedLists of things to have on hahd ness through a Brigham Young are found on page 3 of this University Center for Continution. ing Education class. Although Individuals and families are the classes are not mandatory, the basic unit of the disaster co- Carr said many are taking adordination plan. They are then vantage of the six- - or course featuring emergency suborganized into neighborhoods. Cities are divided in a neighjects such as first aid and dealing borhood level with representa with emotional stress. the county by Dr. David L. Scott and John Zippro, former County Emergency Services director. The program was approved by the south Davis city councils insert and printed as a in the back of the 1984 South Davis Telephone Directory. Scott and Zippro have also presented the program to all city councils in the north end of the county. A similar insert involving the north part of the county is planned for the 1984 North Davis telephone directory that will be released in June. The program consists of several emergency plan committees to provide support to victims, including a church and commu15-pa- ge 15-- 8 areas en h) neighborhoods each) (10-1- 5 10-ho- ur Instructors of the course are Wilma Beck and Vicky Steen-bli- k. Mrs. Beck, a Kaysville resi- dent, described the program as a p thing. self-hel- Were organizing so when a disaster comes, you can cope, she said. I dont care who you are, the mayor or anybody, you live in a neighborhood. Other Areas Watching Disaster Plan SALT LAKE CITY BARRY KAWA The Utah Transit Authority is ready to reroute route 70 between Salt Lake City and Lt. Jan FARMINGTON Cunningham, director of Davis County Emergency Services, pre- dicts the county emergency preparedness effort will mesh into a ; d machine in the event of trouble later this spring. well-oile- if streams knock out roads on the old highway, he said. Last years spring mudslide down Rudd Creek Canyon closed the old highway into Farmington and created a mass rerouting of 70. Several stops in Farming-to- n were eliminated and buses were rerouted at several places onto to go around the mudslide area and flooding on Parrish Lane. If that route gets cut again, well go down to the freeway and then come in at critical points, Pingree said. We will make public announcements to people about where the buses are running and what problems we are expecting, he said. , i moved from the basement of the Davis County library in Farmington to the basement of the sheriffs department annex building. Here, Cunningham said, emergency services can be better coordinated with the sheriffs department in the event of an emergency. The purpose of this center is to serve as a hub," Cunningham said, with the 14 cities of Davis County as the rest of this wheel. We serve as a resource to them. From this agency, we can initiate anything as an aid the cities themselves cannot initiate. Review Staff Ogden in the event of spring flooding in Davis County, says John Pingree, UTA general manager. ; Thats th.e route we feel has the greatest probability Cunningham said the newly reorganized county emergency ser-- , vices , is for preparing emergencies with a ham radio hook-u- p to all the county cities, communications command post and emergency preparedness plan for all the cities. In' the event something does happen, it will work like a d machine, he said. well-oile- 15 . Area Coordinators . Bus Service . Coordinators . At Emergency disrupted District Could Become Model UTA Looking of being Non-LD- Davis County commissioners have reorganized the emergency services department formerly under the direction of John o and made it the responsibiliZip-pr- ty . of the sheriffs department. Zippro was assigned to the emergency preparedness program and Cunningham named as director of the division. The emergency services command p6st has'alsobeen . f-- . Cunningham said manpower, specialized equipment, medical services and can be mobilized by the center in the event of a disaster such as the Rudd Creek mudslide in Farmington last year. He added the breakdowns in communication that plagued last years operations are being reviewed so the countys effort will be organized in the event of another emergency. . . , 'Bui the county' EMS directoi' is still encouraging cities to be prepared to handle their own emergency problems. But if the cities prove they cannot handle their problems or if its just beyond their capabilities, they in turn will request assistance from us, Cunningham said. At which time, depending on the magnitude of the problem, well activate this center. The emergency preparedness program being implemented in the cities was formulated by Dr. David L. Scott of Bountiful and Zippro to get a plan activated down to the neighborhood level. The South Davis cities and Farmington have about 1500 neighborhood coordinators selected and the program directions printed in the back of the South Davis telephone directories. In the North Davis county cities, the plan was recently submitted to city councils by Zippro and Scott and is being readied for publication in the North Davis telephone directory in June. Included in the plan is emergency information, disaster teams emergency Committees, emergency .districts and evacuation areas. Cunningham is also mobilizing several hundred members of the Davis County Amateur Radio Emergency Services for a massive communication effort in an emergency situation. The amateur radio group is made up of residents who own and operate private ham radios that can be utilized in the field. a Kaysville City has purchased to hall ham radio set for its city maintain communications with the county emergency operations center. Kaysville emergency preparedness coordinator Bob Boyer said all cities in the county will be asked to purchase a o battery and back-u- p commufor a county-wid- e pack nications network. ham-radi- Cunningham said the countys emergency, preparedness effort is receiving interest from other counties who hope to start a similar program. I see Davis County as a pilot program for he emergency preparedness, said. Not only in the state but for the whole nation. I think everybody can learn something from what we are doing. |