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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 help and 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 UTA 15-pa- ge human preparedness committee and state and county resources committee. Individuals are being counseled by committee officials to have on hand supplies for themselves and their families to get them through an emergency in case they are forced to evacuate or supplies are not available. Lists of things to have on hand are found on page 3 of this tion. Individuals and families are the basic unit of the disaster coordination plan. They are then organized into neighborhoods. Cities are divided in a neighborhood level with representa 10-ho- ur Neighborhood Coordinators Instructors of the course are Wilma Beck and Vicky Steen-bliMrs. Beck, a Kaysville resident, described the program as a p thing. (10-1- 5 homes em hi 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. k. self-hel- Other Areas Watching Disaster Plan Bus Service SALT LAKE CITY The Utah Transit Authority is ready to reroute route 70 between Salt Lake City and 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 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 Non-LD- resources committee, emergency At Emergency disrupted committee, nity n City Command Post Could Become Model Looking of being 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 residents will alareas. so be involved throughout the areas. Neighborhood coordinators will contact homes throughout the county to let residents know who to contact in case an emergency situation occurs. City or county officials should only be called if a breakdown in the neighborhood operation occurs. The lines of communication run up through an area coordinator, district coordinator, city command post, Davis County and state of Utah. Neighborhood, area and dis- -' trict coordinators are receiving training in emergency preparedness through a Brigham Young University Center for Continuing Education class. Although the classes are not mandatory, Carr said many are taking advantage of the six- - or course featuring emergency subjects such as first aid and dealing 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 commu- Farming-to- n were eliminated and buses were rerouted at several places onto to go around the mudslide area and flooding oh 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 BARRY KAWA Review Staff Lt. Jan FARMINGTON Cunningham, director of Davis County Emergency Services, predicts the county emergency preparedness effort will mesh into a well-oile- ' machine d in the preparing well-oile- -- Davis County commissioners have reorganized the emergency services department formerly o under the direction of Johp and made it the responsibility of the sheriffs department. Zippro was assigned to the emergency preparedness program and Cunningham named ' as director of the division. The emergency services command pbsl' has also' beerf . ' Zip-pr- e ' just beyond capabilities, they in turn will request assistance from us, Cunningham said. At which time, depending 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. 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 a plan activated to Zippro From this agency, we can initi- down to theget neighborhood level". ate anything as an aid the cities The South Davis cities and Farthemselves cannot initiate. mington have about 1500 neighCunningham said manpower, borhood coordinators selected specialized equipment, medical and the program directions services and printed in the back of the South can be mobilized by the center Davis telephone directories. in the event of a disaster such as In the North Davis county citthe Rudd Creek mudslide in ies, the plan was subrecently Farmington last year. He added mitted to city councils by Zippro the breakdowns in communica- and Scott and is being readied tion that plagued last years for publication in the North Daoperations are being reviewed so vis telephone directory in June. the countys effort will be orIncluded in the plan is emergenganized in the event of another cy information, disaster teams, 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. for 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 ma- chine, he said. said, emergency services can be better coordinated with the sheriffs department in the event of an emergency. Cunningham said the newly reorganized county emergency ser- is still encouraging cities to be prepared to handle their own emergency problems. But if the cities prove they sheriffs department annex cannot handle their problems or building. Here, Cunningham if its their event of trouble later this spring. vices moved from the basement of the Davis County library in Farmington to the basement of the 'But the bounty EMS directoi is a Kaysville City has purchased to hall its for ham radio set city maintain communications paredness coordinator Bob Boyer said all cities in the county will be asked to purchase a o battery and back-u- p commupack for a county-wid- e 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 for County as a pilot program emergency and evacuation areas. preparedness, he said. Not only in the state but for the whole nation. I think ev- emergency Committees, emergency .districts with the county emergency operations center. Kaysville emergency pre- , erybody can learn something from what we are doing. |