Staff and trained emergency volunteers will get first-hand experience on how to respond to earthquake damage resulting in a failed reservoir and buckling apartment building from 10 a.m. to noon on Thursday during an emergency response drill lead by the Monrovia Fire Department.
These staged drills - which occur once a year - prepare the City for a real disaster. Residents can expect to see fire fighters, police and City Hall staff responding during this exercise with the same level of intensity as if this were real, fire officials said.
The drills will involve nearly 70 people, made up of City Hall employees, volunteers, and Community Emergency Response Training participants. There will be two separate scenarios:
1) Response to a damaged reservoir to the point where it is gushing out water and impacting homes, and
2) A 3-story apartment building has begun to buckle and in it contains 10-15 people.
Activities will take place at the Emergency Operations Center at 140 E. Lime Avenue and Station 2 at 2055 S. Myrtle Avenue, which also contains an apartment training facility.
The exercises simulate responses that would result in the activation of the Emergency Operations Center. The last time the Emergency Operations Center was activated was during the Foothill Windstorm on Dec. 1, 2011. During that response, staff, volunteers and elected officials each contributed to the various types of responses that were needed to remove debris, provide electricity and continually provide the public with up-to-date information.
Source: City of Monrovia press release
- Brad Haugaard
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