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NEIGHBORHOOD DISASTER PLANNING
Flooded area in Seattle, 2000 Three Seattle District Councils and neighborhoods created communications hubs and community outreach on emergency preparedness in 2009, using $21,000 that I secured in the...
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EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS REVIEW INITIATED BY COUNCIL
Seattle logo The City Council and my Regional Development and Sustainability Committee will conduct a review of the City’s emergency preparedness, with special attention to lessons learned from the...
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EARTHQUAKES AND SEATTLE – IMPROVING OUR EMERGENCY PLANS
City of Seattle Seal The Council has held a series of briefings and discussions reviewing the disastrous earthquakes in Chile, New Zealand, and Japan over the last few months (an exercise for the...
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EARTHQUAKES AND UNREINFORCED MASONRY BUILDINGS
City of Seattle Seal When the Nisqually Earthquake hit, I was in an older brick building in Pioneer Square. While skyscrapers swayed, the Pioneer Building was bouncing up and down, and a window...
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EARTHQUAKE LESSONS FROM CHILE
Building damaged in 2010 Chilean earthquake (photo from Wikipedia) Last month I was one of 40 Seattle business, government, labor, and academic leaders on a study mission to Santiago and Valparaiso,...
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HOW TO RECOVER FROM A DISASTER
Those of us involved in emergency preparedness in Seattle, along with thoughtful planners in other cities and the federal government, have realized that the immediate response to an emergency like an...
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PREVENTING BUILDINGS FROM COLLAPSING IN THE NEXT EARTHQUAKE
In the last few years there have been major earthquakes in every corner of the Pacific Rim – except the Pacific Northwest. We will inevitably experience one, and part of our emergency preparedness work...
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VULNERABLE POPULATIONS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
Public Health –Seattle & King County has developed a new strategy for ensuring that our most vulnerable populations are protected and assisted in emergencies. The new strategy recognizes that there...
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EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS EXERCISE
Staff from the Office of Emergency Management recently reported back to the Council on their experiences at a multi-day training focused on how the City would respond to an extreme winter storm. The...
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